Could the big foundations ever be the change they want to see?
A disturbing experience at a private hospital exposes the tangled relationship between Foundation Trusts and private business.
As NHS funding cuts bite, are NHS hospitals muddying the waters between NHS and private patients?
In the first of a new series of dispatches from the frontline of England's National Health Service, published in association with 38 Degrees, Professor George Odam paints a worrying picture of the future of small specialist hospitals in the UK - and the limits of the "Foundation Trust" model.
The government is both squeezing real NHS funding, something it has been reprimanded for repeatedly denying, and it has also increased the limit on private patient income to 49% of hospital income. Despite its rhetoric, the Coalition's plan for the NHS is quite clear.
