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Public services policy

May 2024

  • The Guardian view on private equity and public services: this trend needs reversing

  • Female patient and male doctor at computer screen in consulting room

    Doctors call for funding reform to tackle health disparities across England

  • A doctor holding blood samples

    A hollow victory for survivors of the infected blood scandal

  • Demonstrators hold placards with messages such as 'It's time' and 'Recognise all victims'

    Infected blood inquiry to publish final report in seismic moment for victims

  • ‘A kick in the teeth’: Leeds artists fear loss of spaces is killing cultural scene

  • Patients in England want right to see GPs within 24 hours enshrined in NHS

  • The Guardian view on health spending: a broken promise that voters are unlikely to forget or forgive

  • The Guardian picture essay
    ‘So much death and upset’: the nurses quitting the NHS after Covid – a photo essay

  • NHS spending rise lags behind Tory funding pledges, IFS finds

  • Labour should be ‘less tribal’, says Keir Starmer after Elphicke defection

  • Tax rises will follow UK election unless fiscal rules are ripped up, says thinktank

  • Chronic underfunding, broken equipment and asbestos in the ceilings: this is the NHS in 2024

    Parth Patel
  • ‘Cuts will result in patient deaths’: hospitals shed medical staff after being told to balance the books

  • NHS mental health trust failings linked to more than 30 deaths in Norfolk and Suffolk

  • Patients evacuated and scans cancelled after Stockport hospital ceilings fall in

April 2024

  • A GP checking a patient's blood pressure

    Lib Dems pledge access to same named GP for over-70s and long-term sick

    Polling for party shows 47% of UK adults rarely or never see same doctor for each appointment
  • Dan Poulter, sitting at a table with two red Labour mugs on it, signs a form as Ellie Reeves watches

    Top Tory MP defects to Labour in fury at NHS crisis

    Ex-health minister Dan Poulter, who also works as a hospital doctor, says Conservatives have become ‘nationalist party of the right’
    • ‘I would not be alive’: anger at Sunak plan to strip GPs of sicknote powers

    • Nurses in England took an average of one week off sick for stress last year, data shows

    • Hunt reportedly mulling stamp duty and NI cuts in effort to woo voters

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