nhs privatisation
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Secret Plans to Cut NHS Services! Sign the Petition
The plans – called a “capped expenditure process” – are being finished right now and Vauxhall is in the shortlist of areas which could get the first round of cuts. Because the plans are secret, it’s hard to say exactly which services near you could be at risk. But the scale of the threat is… Continue reading
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Video: Theresa May in Election Jitters Caught Lying About Tory Plans to Cut The National Health Service
2 June 2017 — TRNN Kam Sandhu of Real Media says there is evidence that Tories plan to sell off assets to service NHS; this is the first sign of distress and it will lead to privatization Kam Sandhu is a journalist and the co-founder of the UK-based Real Media. (inc. transcript.) Continue reading
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What does the NHS do with your data?
Although the Government has yet to issue the necessary CAG Regulations; or ‘one strike and you’re out’ sanctions for data misuse or abuse; has failed to close the “promotion of health” (i.e. Pharma marketing) and commercial re-use loophole; still hasn’t put the National Data Guardian on a proper statutory footing, let alone responded to the… Continue reading
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The NHS Opt-out is worthless!
Over 1.2 million people, just like you, opted out of their hospital records being sold. The opt out has begun to work, but NHS confirms hospital records are still being sold. Continue reading
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NHS Hospitals in Crisis!
Exposed: hospital beds across England are dangerously full. And now Jeremy Hunt’s plans for our NHS mean thousands more hospital beds could be cut. Asthma attacks, bad falls, or car accidents could put any of us in need of a hospital bed – and the idea of turning up to an overcrowded hospital in an… Continue reading
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The NHS is hanging by a thread
Jeremy Hunt doesn’t want you to watch this video – it proves the NHS is hanging on a thread. Millions of us are reading this email today. And if we all watch the video and share it with our friends and family, we’ll get the word out: Continue reading
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Councillors must look before they leap into secret NHS cuts plans By John Lister
Theresa May has not taken kindly to the NHS boss’s belated admission that he had originally asked for considerably more than £8billion “extra” for the NHS (even as that £8bn figure was itself criticised as “misleading” by Sarah Wollaston MP, who points out the true amount given to the NHS is considerably less than the… Continue reading
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The NHS – is it all about the money, money, money? By Paul Hobday
As Jeremy Hunt and Simon Stevens appear before the Health Select Committee in an emergency session on NHS finances, Paul Hobday explains why ‘where’s the money coming from’ is the wrong question. Continue reading
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The Tories just tried to sneak out the biggest EVER privatisation of the NHS By Steve Topple
The Conservative government has quietly announced one of the biggest sell-offs in the entire history of the NHS. On Friday 14 October, the government’s website released details of nine NHS contracts that are up for sale. And they are worth a staggering £7.9bn; 7.3% of the total NHS budget. Continue reading
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The NHS is ‘Hanging by a Thread’
If things go Jeremy Hunt’s way, he’ll get the ball rolling on his plans next month. [2] But we’ve got a plan to push them into the spotlight. If enough of us chip in, we can make a powerful documentary to expose the real impact of his NHS cuts – and then get everyone in… Continue reading
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Expose Jeremy Hunt’s Secret Plans for the NHS
These plans are huge and complicated. Together we’ve started to shed light on them. But we just don’t know enough yet. If we want to have our say on our local NHS services before it’s too late, we need to see every detail. Continue reading
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Secret Plans to cut NHS services across England Exposed
Jeremy Hunt’s secret plans to cut NHS services across England are taking shape right now. They could mean big changes to the care our local NHS provides – including cuts to hospital beds or reduced A&E services. It’s just weeks before these plans become a reality. If we want to stand a fighting chance of… Continue reading
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Scrap the sale of our medical records!
The government review into the care.data scheme was published earlier this month and it recommended the scheme we fought so hard against be scrapped. This sounds like a victory, but buried in the report is a new worrying scheme to sell our medical records to big corporations. One of the schemes to replace care.data is… Continue reading
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EXPOSED: A small number of rogue drugs companies are fleecing the NHS out of millions of pounds a year
They’re exploiting a loophole that allows them to buy up the rights to everyday medicines, hike up the price, and hold our NHS to ransom. It means our cash-strapped health service is forced to spend millions on overpriced drugs rather than spending it on nurses to care for our families or cancer services to help… Continue reading
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Save the NHS: Mail your MP today
Next Friday our MPs are debating a new law that could achieve everything 38 Degrees members want for our NHS: enshrining it as free for everyone, protecting it from profit-driven companies and stopping cynical government cuts. This new law is about the values we hold close to us: an NHS that’s got people at its… Continue reading
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We say NO to Care.data
A majority of 38 Degrees members support the idea of sharing anonymised data for life-saving medical research – as long as we can be convinced that the data is kept securely. But we are united in our opposition to this data being shared with profit-making companies, for any purpose. Continue reading
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NHS: Jeremy Hunt doesn’t want you to read this
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is trying to sneak through new NHS plans. The Guardian newspaper has revealed that a key NHS blueprint has been slipped out. Even though the public have a right to comment, the government “has deliberately kept it quiet”. Because of this cover-up, we’ve now got just over 24 hours to flood… Continue reading
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Care.data: They never give up
The government is trying to push through the plan that would allow private companies to access our personal medical data and increase privatisation of the NHS. But together, we could stop it. Continue reading
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The NHS sells you and your soul
This week saw the UK’s largest online pharmacy, Pharmacy2U, fined £130,000 for concealing its sale of names and addresses of NHS patients to quacks and charlatans. Quite literally – the companies who bought patients details were selling “alternative” treatments and lottery scams. Continue reading
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The NHS Needs Emergency Funding Now!
It’s official: unless £2bn is urgently given to struggling hospitals, A&E waiting times will go up, cancer treatment will be delayed, and it’ll be impossible for hospitals to provide beds for people in need this winter. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 