Caroline Molloy

Caroline Molloy is openDemocracy's UK health and social affairs correspondent, a journalist and speaker. She has written extensively on politics, public services and the welfare state, and has a particular interest in public services and technology.

To ‘level up’, the UK needs a real jubilee: a mass write-off of debts

Even before cost of living crisis, the poor owed the government – or, the Crown – £16bn. Why not just write it off?

By Caroline Molloy

/ 2 Jun 2022

To ‘level up’, the UK needs a real jubilee: a mass write-off of debts

No surprise No.10 laughed at cleaners – it did nothing to stop them dying

Security guards and other low-paid staff were laughed at by a government that didn’t care about their lives

By Caroline Molloy

/ 25 May 2022

No surprise No.10 laughed at cleaners – it did nothing to stop them dying

Starmer’s car industry funding revealed as he backs action on oil protests

The Labour leader has called for injunctions against green protesters. Now it has emerged two of his biggest donors were motor industry chiefs

By Caroline Molloy

/ 22 Apr 2022

Starmer’s car industry funding revealed as he backs action on oil protests

On energy strategy, the government is leaving women in the cold

Women will shoulder some of the worst effects of soaring energy bills. Why doesn’t the government’s energy security statement do more for us?

By Caroline Molloy

/ 8 Apr 2022

On energy strategy, the government is leaving women in the cold

Exclusive: 400,000 disabled people lose out on help to cut energy costs

Charity slams government for showing “total disregard” as disabled people in England are cut out of free insulation scheme

By Caroline Molloy

/ 6 Apr 2022

Exclusive: 400,000 disabled people lose out on help to cut energy costs

Law forcing energy companies to insulate UK homes runs out as bills soar

Poorest households could be left struggling to get vital energy efficiency upgrades – just as fuel costs rocket

By Caroline Molloy

/ 4 Apr 2022

Law forcing energy companies to insulate UK homes runs out as bills soar

Exclusive: Most of Javid’s ‘69 new NHS centres’ may not actually exist

The health secretary last month claimed 69 new centres are ‘up and running’ – but neither his department nor the NHS can say where they are

By Caroline Molloy

/ 21 Mar 2022

Exclusive: Most of Javid’s ‘69 new NHS centres’ may not actually exist

Putin isn’t to blame for fuel poverty in the UK – the government is

Britain has homes that are older, draughtier and harder to heat than anywhere else in western Europe. The poor are paying for the problem

By Caroline Molloy

/ 11 Mar 2022

Putin isn’t to blame for fuel poverty in the UK – the government is

How did England end up in this unprepared Omicron mess?

Johnson and his cabinet have wasted their time, our money, expert science and the goodwill of both NHS workers and the public

By Caroline Molloy

/ 16 Dec 2021

How did England end up in this unprepared Omicron mess?

Why can’t the UK government explain what its Health Bill will actually achieve?

Tory MPs are quick to dispute claims that this bill is about privatisation. But there’s a reason why none of them can say what it is about

By Caroline Molloy

/ 7 Dec 2021

Why can’t the UK government explain what its Health Bill will actually achieve?

Website for booking NHS appointments offers mostly private healthcare

Exclusive: Patients trying to book NHS GP services online are plunged into a ‘baffling’ system of paid-for tests and ‘backdoor privatisation’

By Caroline Molloy

/ 25 Nov 2021

Website for booking NHS appointments offers mostly private healthcare

Go private for the treatment you need, NHS tells patients

Patients are being refused treatment, discharged too early and pushed towards private referrals, openDemocracy’s largest-ever reader survey has found

By Caroline Molloy

/ 23 Nov 2021

Go private for the treatment you need, NHS tells patients