nhs privatisation
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Coronavirus Has Destroyed the NHS Internal Market Overnight, Proving That It Never Worked
Covid-19 has forced the government to make drastic changes to the fundamental structure of the NHS, as the service struggles to cope. Continue reading
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The NHS is still at risk: Email your MP!
Yesterday the government published its objectives for a trade deal with the US. As usual, the document makes a very general claim that the NHS and drug pricing will not be on the table in a trade deal with Donald Trump. But in fact, we know from last year’s leaks that the NHS and drug pricing… Continue reading
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The NHS is opening up to US business – the reassurances are demonstrably false
British officials dodged invitations to exclude the NHS from a US-UK trade deal. Not surprising, given how much public money already goes to the US healthcare industry. Continue reading
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Collapse of UK National Health Service threatened as Johnson government readies further onslaught
The National Health Service (NHS) faces collapse after decades of underfunding, staffing cuts and privatisation. Even before the onset of the NHS’s now-annual “winter crisis,” a heightened expression of a year-round crisis, senior doctors’ representatives warned that the health service was “on its knees.” Continue reading
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Is Johnson really going to ‘rein in’ NHS privatisation? Don’t you believe it!
The end of NHS privatisation would appear – once again – to have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, things could be about to get considerably worse… Continue reading
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Reddit Bans Users for Telling the Truth
Last week (November 27th), at a press conference, Jeremy Corbyn unveiled dozens of leaked documents. Documents showing that Boris Johnson – and the Tories in general – are lying when they say there are no plans to open up the NHS to US trade. Continue reading
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The Dirty War on the NHS: Save the Date: Online Cinema Screening on Mon 9 Dec
For those who cannot get to a cinema, we are organising an Online Cinema Screening on Monday 9 December between 6pm and 10pm. Tickets are £10. If you want to watch the film, click on the link below, buy your ticket, and on Monday you will be sent a link to the film and an access code. You… Continue reading
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We Asked NHS Doctors About the Trade Documents Corbyn Revealed
This week Corbyn revealed un-redacted trade documents detailing talks between the Conservative government and the Trump administration between 2016 – now. He argued they prove the NHS is indeed up for sale, contradicting Boris Johnson. We asked two medical doctors to explain the papers. Featuring Dr Rita Issa and Dr Timesh Pillay. Continue reading
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JOHN PILGER’S NEW FILM IN CINEMAS AND ON TV THIS DECEMBER
The new John Pilger film, The Dirty War on the NHS, will be released in cinemas in the UK on 1 December and broadcast on the ITV Network on 17 December. Continue reading
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REPORT: NHS privatisation – real expenditure 26 per cent, not 7 per cent
Political parties are making all sorts of claims to save the NHS from its current financial strangulation and the privatisation drive, mainly because a general election is due and the NHS is inevitably used a political football. This report really is quite explosive, not least because the general public has been ‘hoodwinked’ into believing that… Continue reading
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Is Johnson really going to ‘rein in’ NHS privatisation? Don’t you believe it!
The Guardian reported last week that Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock plan to “rein in” NHS privatisation in a new NHS Bill to be published next month. NHS England (NHSE) has released a document detailing “22 key changes it believes will be included” in such a bill, and the Guardian tells us their proposals are “likely”… Continue reading
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Right-Wing Think Tank IEA: A year of assaults on public health initiatives
By TruePublica: The Institute for Economic Affairs is renowned for being the most powerful and influential think tank in Britain. Modelled around a right-wing American opaque so-called ‘institute’ it is littered with dodgy donors and surrounded by accusations of dark money interests. Its assaults on public health initiatives, given its real motivations, should be a… Continue reading
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UK: Record £9.2 billion of NHS budget handed to private firms By Ben Trent
The Department of Health and Social Care’s annual report reveals that last year saw a record £9.2 billion of the National Health Service (NHS) budget going to private investors, such as Virgin Care and Priory mental health group. Continue reading
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UK: Bradford NHS workers vote to strike against privatisation By Richard Tyler
Hospital workers in Bradford, England, facing the backdoor privatisation of their jobs have voted to take indefinite strike action from August 26. Continue reading
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Amazon NHS partnership – more questions over backdoor privatisation
There is a lot going wrong in the world today and big tech is driving much of it in its indomitable thirst for ever greater global influence and markets to profit from. In the meantime, the British government is already making many moves to ‘Americanise’ society and continues towards its unpopular privatisation model in healthcare. Continue reading
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NHS: Staffing challenges now “bigger threat to the future of the NHS than funding cuts”
Two interesting facts not published that emerged from this report. One is that doctors are now so overworked that approximately 80 per cent are at threat of ‘burnout.’ The term “burnout” was coined in the 1970s by the American psychologist Herbert Freudenberger. He used it to describe the consequences of severe stress and high ideals… Continue reading
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The latest multi-billion pound move in NHS privatisation – is the endgame in sight?
“No privatisation of the NHS on my watch,” said Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health, shortly after taking up his post. But this week the Health Services Journal (HSJ) revealed that “Providers offered control of NHSE budgets worth billions” (paywall). The article is explicit that the private healthcare sector is central among those now… Continue reading
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NHS : FoI requests show planned shutdown of services
By TruePublica: The NHS is no longer facing a crisis – it’s worse than that. The reality is that an inward collapse, an implosion, is now the most likely scenario in the face of a government unwilling to take action, whilst its privatisation plans and disastrous handling of Brexit continues. Continue reading
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NHS privatisation – the endgame now in sight
By Jessica Ormerod and Deborah Harrington: “No privatisation of the NHS on my watch,” said Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health, shortly after taking up his post. But this week the Health Services Journal (HSJ) revealed that “Providers offered control of NHSE budgets worth billions” (paywall). The article is explicit that the private healthcare… Continue reading
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NHS 10-year plan: Recipe for further attacks on services and privatisation in UK By Ajanta Silva
As if everyone was oblivious to the last nine years of austerity, including huge cuts to the NHS budget and privatization of health services, May claimed the Tories would be the saviours of the NHS over the next decade with the launch of the Long Term Plan (LTP). Continue reading
The New Dark Age 