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.

Is this the beginning of the end for Labour?

The pandemic should have been a chance to decry inequality and demand change. Instead, Labour tried to win a patriotism contest with the Tories, and lost

By Caroline Molloy

/ 7 May 2021

Is this the beginning of the end for Labour?

This should be the social care election – why is it being treated as anything but?

Some 30,000 died of COVID in England’s care homes. Yet with few understanding councils and the care system, social care falls off the 6 May agenda

By Caroline Molloy

/ 5 May 2021

This should be the social care election – why is it being treated as anything but?

Government faces ‘urgent’ calls to scrap England's Test and Trace scheme

Exclusive: With the original 12-month outsourced contracts due for renewal, Labour MPs and activists have demanded immediate end of contact-tracing scheme

By Caroline Molloy

/ 26 Apr 2021

Government faces ‘urgent’ calls to scrap England's Test and Trace scheme

What Cameron and the Greensill app tells us about NHS digital privatisation

Greensill’s app may appear an obscure product for Cameron to stake his reputation on. But it is emblematic of the NHS's digital transformation

By Caroline Molloy

/ 17 Apr 2021

What Cameron and the Greensill app tells us about NHS digital privatisation

As UK MPs hide extra income, people on state support must declare every penny

If MPs don’t have to prove they’re not gaming the system, then why do we?

By Caroline Molloy

/ 23 Mar 2021

As UK MPs hide extra income, people on state support must declare every penny

Why did the government say revealing NHS plans is not in the public interest?

The government has denied my Freedom of Information requests. At this rate, we’ll know who is redesigning the NHS only once it’s too late

By Caroline Molloy

/ 12 Feb 2021

Why did the government say revealing NHS plans is not in the public interest?

The terrifying truth about those deciding the future of the NHS

The Tories are using the pandemic to reshape our health service – and so it’s up to us to protect our access to comprehensive treatment.

By Caroline Molloy

/ 19 Dec 2020

The terrifying truth about those deciding the future of the NHS

Revealed: Boris Johnson’s controversial policy chief leading secretive NHS task force

Munira Mirza heading up group meeting ‘daily or weekly’ to plan ‘radical NHS shakeup’.

By Caroline Molloy

/ 19 Nov 2020

Revealed: Boris Johnson’s controversial policy chief leading secretive NHS task force

Deloitte’s COVID ‘bonanza’: this is how much the British public has paid so far

The government has given the giant firm £40m to oversee 'failing' Test and Trace – with no sign of any contract. So just what are they doing for the money?

By Caroline Molloy

/ 12 Nov 2020

Deloitte’s COVID ‘bonanza’: this is how much the British public has paid so far

Revealed: ‘Failing’ Serco won another £57m COVID contract without competition

As Serco's share price soars, government accused of "shovelling huge sums of public money to a handful of outsourcing companies without competition, rigour or accountability".

By Caroline Molloy, Peter Geoghegan and Russell Scott

/ 16 Oct 2020

Revealed: ‘Failing’ Serco won another £57m COVID contract without competition

Pressure mounts to scrap ‘failed’ contact tracing contracts as renewal looms

Serco and SITEL staff have been told to expect more work, despite disappointing delivery of the first five months of the scheme.

By Caroline Molloy

/ 1 Oct 2020

Pressure mounts to scrap ‘failed’ contact tracing contracts as renewal looms

Serco lands another £45m for ‘failing’ COVID Test and Trace scheme

Revealed: Controversial firm has won previously unreported coronavirus testing contract – while critics label its £108m call centre deal ‘astonishing’ and ‘unethical’.

By Caroline Molloy

/ 17 Sep 2020

Serco lands another £45m for ‘failing’ COVID Test and Trace scheme