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11 May 2018 — OurNHS
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Recent attention to the Windrush scandal has focused attention on the many ways migrants are deterred from accessing healthcare. The government has this week announced it will be suspending “with immediate effect” the controversial memorandum of understanding (MOU) under which NHS Digital shared NHS patients’ details with the Home Office.
5 November 2017 — OurNHS
As he became ‘the most hated man on the Internet’ last year, ‘pharma-bro’ Martin Shkreli repeatedly claimed that by hiking the price of HIV drugs he wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary. Squeezing health services and patients for every last penny is just how the pharmaceutical industry works. And that’s perhaps the only thing he was right about.
While multinational drug companies have turned themselves into one of the most profitable industries in the world, they have peddled the lie that they’re charging eye-watering prices for their life-saving products because it costs a fortune to research and develop them. What they didn’t tell us is that much of that research is publicly funded in the first place.
15 January 2018 — The Peoples Assembly
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The People’s Assembly and Health Campaigns Together have teamed up again to respond to the worst NHS crisis in history.
We’re calling on everyone; all campaigns and local groups, all round the country – to come down to London and demand proper funding, beds and full staffing levels on fair pay.
15 September 2017 — 38 Degrees
Will Theresa May pay our nurses, firefighters and police properly? The public sector pay cap has been all over the news this week: there’s been announcements, votes, and talks of strikes. [1] But what’s actually been decided?
21 July 2017 — medConfidential
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Before everyone starts their summer, here are a few ‘tied-up loose ends’ that had previously been left dangling. Continue reading this...
30 June 2017 — medConfidential
So, we have a new Government (after a fashion). And, whatever else, there’s some continuity at the Department of Health…
Given this continuity, the completely unambiguous Conservative Manifesto commitment, and cross-party support for the National Data Guardian, it was a bit disappointing that a statutory footing for NDG was absent from the Queen’s Speech.
We can’t help but note – with a Data Protection Bill on its way, arbitrary data-sharing powers available in the Digital Economy Act, and Theresa May threatening to roll back human rights – that it is protections such as these that underpin the privacy of all our medical records.
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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.)
21 April 2017 — medConfidential
Though the political focus is on the General Election, the ‘STP shuffle’ remains highly significant. Whatever the result in June, both funding and decision-making for health and care services will be increasingly devolved to local areas.
9 December 2016 — MedConfidential
Jeremy Hunt changed his mind and is still selling your medical records
If you opted out of your hospital records being sold, Jeremy Hunt has changed his mind about your choice.
At the time, he said in Parliament (emphasis added):
“…this Government decided that people should be able to opt out from having their anonymised data used for the purposes of scientific research, which the previous Labour Government refused to do? When they extended the programme to out-patient data in 2003 and to A and E data in 2008, at no point did they give people the right to opt out. We have introduced that right”
The right Jeremy Hunt was so publicly proud of introducing, he has secretly taken away again. He was right to give it you – his election manifesto promised it would be there.
25 October 2016 — OurNHS
Jeremy Hunt can no longer pretend he’s following ‘the NHS’s own plan’. Expect fierce local battles ahead
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It’s all going horribly wrong for Simon Stevens.
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 government claims, and the Nuffield Trust, which argues the £8bn may in reality be just £880m).
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