22 July 2020 — The Lowdown

Some good news: the NHS has successfully lifted its hospital occupancy to pre-COVID levels despite the current challenges, according to figures revealed by the Lowdown.

This week too Sarah Jane Downing writes in the Lowdown about her personal campaign to improve the safety of hospitals and we analyse what steps should be taken after several damning inquiries into hospital failures.

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Here is this week’s Lowdown,  on PDF and our one-stop roundup

• Bed figures show NHS has bounced back already
• My fight for safeguards in private and NHS hospitals
• Cumberlege inquiry: Patients are still being harmed by our healthcare system
• Sussex mega-trust foments fears of cuts
• CCGs caught short-changing mental health services
• CQC calls for intervention at failing trust
• CSU bosses speed up plans for job cuts
• Is Johnson pondering an NHS power grab?
• Privatisation Protest at St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester
• South West London hospital plan referred to Matt Hancock

With thanks and best wishes
Paul, John, Sylvia, Molly & Martin
Lowdown team

NHS Support Federation