29 October 2013 — Red Pepper
Tag: England
NHS on the brink of extinction By Kailash Chand
21 October 2013 — Our NHS
The results will be terminal if coalition reforms are not reversed, warns Kailash Chand.
Waiting times at five-year high in British National Health Service By Mark Blackwood and Ajanta Silva
19 Octoberv 2013 — WSWS
Thousands of patients across the UK are facing long delays, exceeding the national target of treatment within 18 weeks of a problem being identified.
The ‘Bedroom Tax’: A Two-Pronged Attack By Insa Koch
1 September 2013 — New Left Project
The ‘bedroom tax’, which was implemented on the 1 April 2013, has been widely criticised as a fundamental attack on the welfare state in Britain. It exposes many people to the risk of losing their houses, threatening to break up family homes and communities. But there is also another problem with the ‘bedroom tax’ which has been largely overlooked: in addition to undermining the welfare state, it fosters feelings of resentment which may well reinforce social divisions among the most marginalised sectors of society.
More competition medicine – now it’s your GP’s turn By Deborah Colvin
9 September 2013 — OurNHS
GPs are the most cost-effective part of England’s NHS – so why is the government so keen to make radical changes to address the lack of ‘competition’?
Asleep on the job – England’s young doctors and the NHS reforms By Guddi Singh
4 September 2013 — OurNHS
Great tides of people press against me, hands outstretched, faces questioning. They wait for something – a doctor? Anguish ripples through the crowd. Those without the right colour passport are turned away. Countless others shake out their pockets: desperate for pennies; desperate for treatment. Their eyes fill with reproach once they recognize I am a doctor. Their searing gaze brands my guilt.
Britain: Police justification for Taser killing in Manchester unravels By Tony Robson
27 August 2013 — WSWS
The police justification for the recent fatal shooting with a Taser gun of a young man in Manchester, England has begun to unravel.
Paying for private failure in England’s NHS – again By Caroline Molloy
8 August 2013 — Our NHS
The NHS is paying millions to a failed private Treatment Centre to escape a contract after a series of patient deaths – and the figures don’t quite add up.
ColdType Issue 76 25 July 2013: Linh Dinh / Belvin Corriette / Juliette Volcler
25 July 2013 — ColdType
The August issue of ColdType is now on line at http://coldtype.net
After Mubenga unlawful killing verdict: Could asylum seekers have a worse landlord than G4S?
9 July 2013 — Open Democracy
• Unlawful killing verdict • Jimmy Mubenga died after ‘restraint’ by three G4S guards • G4S gave disputed evidence to Parliamentary committee about restraint techniques • Lately executive Stephen Small dismissed allegations about abuse of asylum seekers housed by G4S
Ecuador’s Correa: Solution for Edward Snowden’s destination ‘in hands of Russia’
30 June 2013 — RT
“At this moment, the solution of Snowden’s destination is in the hands of Russian authorities,” Correa said in an interview with the private Oromar channel, according to AFP.
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Everything you wanted to know about the NHS crisis, but were too afraid to ask By John Lister
24 June 2013 — Morning Star
Why are all the worst horror stories from England?
The NHS in England has been run separately from those in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland since devolution.
