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.

Quiz: Who are the winners in the coronavirus goldrush?

Global recession may be causing hardship for millions, but some well-connected firms are still winning in the coronavirus goldrush. How much do you know about them?

By Caroline Molloy and Alastair Tibbitt

/ 28 Aug 2020

Quiz: Who are the winners in the coronavirus goldrush?

Government accused of new ‘U-turn’ on local COVID contact tracing

Exclusive: None of Serco or Sitel's contact tracing staff will be deployed locally, government admits – as councils face new lockdowns and funding shortages.

By Caroline Molloy

/ 13 Aug 2020

Government accused of new ‘U-turn’ on local COVID contact tracing

Serco and Sitel to get more public money despite track-and-trace fiasco

A third of the workforce are to lose their jobs and fewer than half of contacts reached, but outsourcing giants will have contracts renewed.

By Caroline Molloy

/ 11 Aug 2020

Serco and Sitel to get more public money despite track-and-trace fiasco

We mustn’t let Silicon Valley thinking infect our NHS

Secretive COVID contracts show how big data firms are taking over our healthcare. What are they – and the British government – hoping to get out of it?

By Caroline Molloy

/ 5 Aug 2020

We mustn’t let Silicon Valley thinking infect our NHS

Stay at home with no money for 2 weeks before hospital treatment, NHS patients told

openDemocracy has uncovered a major new flaw in sick pay rules. Medics and experts slam the government for not supporting patients who seek to do the right thing.

By Caroline Molloy

/ 14 Jul 2020

Stay at home with no money for 2 weeks before hospital treatment, NHS patients told

The basket police are watching you

Hard up families need higher benefits, not restrictive vouchers and smears about the feckless poor.

By Caroline Molloy

/ 8 Jul 2020

Fresh concerns over privacy and profit in NHS COVID data deals

Documents released to openDemocracy suggest tech firms will profit from controversial deals – and that government gave misleading assurances.

By Caroline Molloy and Mary Fitzgerald

/ 19 Jun 2020

Fresh concerns over privacy and profit in NHS COVID data deals

Quiz: How well do you know the current UK lockdown rules?

The government plans to announce changes to the lockdown rules on Sunday. But how clearly have they explained the current rules?

By Caroline Molloy and Alastair Tibbitt

/ 7 May 2020

Quiz: How well do you know the current UK lockdown rules?

Don’t buy the lockdown lie – this is a government of business as usual

In England there is no new legislation to protect workers' safety, and remarkably little to enforce workplace lockdown, despite what the media tells you.

By Caroline Molloy

/ 1 May 2020