18th May 2025

“Wrecking ball to improving maternity safety”
The Royal College of Midwives has described the Government’s decision to slash crucial ringfenced maternity service funding as ‘utterly shocking’.

Hospitals reject Palantir’s data platform
Fewer than a quarter of England’s 215 hospital trusts were actively using Palantir’s Federated Data Platform by the end of 2024.

£216 million to private X-ray firms
The government prefers to give £216 million of our taxes to private firms rather than recruit enough radiologists.

Mackey: “No more big NHS spending rises”
The chief executive of NHS England said the budget is “maxed out”. However in 2022, nine of the EU14 countries spent more on health care per head than the UK and six invested over 20% more. A 17.4% rise in spending would put the UK almost on a par with what Denmark spent on health care in 2022, and still short of current levels of investment in France, the Netherlands and Germany.