Government accepts most recommendations on response to Covid pandemic
The Chairs of the Health and Social Care Committee and Science and Technology Committee have welcomed a response from the Government into recommendations of the joint parliamentary inquiry into the handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Privatisation associated with decline in quality of healthcare
The first comprehensive analysis of the effects of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 – which encouraged greater outsourcing of NHS services – reveals increased privatisation has led to a decline in the quality of patient care.