Andrew Taylor, a partner at Aldwych Partners, has written for the Health Service Journal (HSJ) this week on how efforts to clear the elective care backlog are likely to feed into higher clinician labour costs, even without a national pay rise. Clinicians willing to work extra time are likely to gravitate to those opportunities where…

The CMA intervened for the first time in the vet sector last Friday, calling in CVS’s acquisition of The Vet for review. The vet sector has consolidated rapidly in recent years with large corporate chains acquiring many practices formerly owned by vets. New corporate owners have been willing to invest significant sums in premises and…

While the NHS will get much of the money from the new Health & Social Care Levy in the next three years, yesterday’s Health Service Journal (HSJ) reported that senior NHS management expect it to be unable to deliver many of the goals in 2019’s Long Term Plan. A fundamental problem for the NHS is…

The Financial Times has drawn on Aldwych Partners’ analysis as it highlights the rapid changes taking place in the vet care industry and the increasing presence of vet care chains in numerous local markets across the UK. It says “as of 2020, the latest figures available, there were 29 local areas of the UK ……

In last month’s NHS White Paper and the accompanying consultation paper (the NHS Provider Selection Regime) the Government set out a new framework for the NHS to use when it commissions clinical services from NHS trusts and private providers. Currently, contracting for these services is governed by government-wide rules that apply across the public sector. In future,…