By Sonya Cullington In his first week in the post, the new Secretary of State for Health Sajid Javid has already noted that his first priority is to navigate the next phase of the pandemic. With Covid-19 on the rise, the continuing threat of new variants and an expected spike in flu and other respiratory…
By Sonya Cullington, Account Director at ZPB The government published its Covid-19 mental health and wellbeing recovery action plan on 27 March 2021, which describes how departments across government will consider mental health within new and existing programmes, and the action that will be taken to improve population mental health and address health inequalities. It…
By Anne Janssen, ZPB’s Analyst It has been a year since the announcement of the first national lockdown. The news of the opening of society provides a glimpse of hope for many. But what are the actual impacts of this lockdown on people’s well-being? While many of us might feel hopeful about the future, some…
This article was first published in HealthInvestor. Last week the National Audit Office concluded that, despite the exceptional circumstances in dealing with Covid-19, “standards of transparency” had not been “consistently met” in the way private sector contracts were awarded during the first wave of the pandemic. Independent providers of health and care services to the…
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