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NO2ID Newsletter (2nd Series) No. 9 – 6th June 2013
7 June 2013 — NO2ID Edited by Daryl Worthington ++ NEW THREAT TO MEDICAL PRIVACY by James Baker Continue reading
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UK-NHS: Traitorous trade union actions! By Ellis Wynne
Unite trade union, in collaboration with health managers, has forced through pay cuts of up to £6,000 a year against 60 pathology staff at Salford Royal Hospital National Health Trust Laboratory. Continue reading
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‘Shocking incompetence’: UK health officials threw away £74m of bird flu ‘wonder-drug’
UK’s Department of Health threw away £74m worth of Tamiflu, the antiviral drug, before its expiry date, due to unsafe storage procedures. In total the country has spent £600 million since 2006 on drugs to fight a flu pandemic that has not materialized. Continue reading
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Going once, going twice—private firms bid for NHS By Sarah Ensor
Huge changes across the health service make a mockery of the Tory claim that the NHS is safe in their hands. New commissioning structures came into force on Monday of this week. They mean GPs can offer services from private companies instead of the NHS. Continue reading
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Demise of Britain’s Welfare State: Largest ever Welfare Cuts. Millions of Families Affected By Paul Mitchell
For the next three years, most welfare benefits will be limited to just a 1 percent rise a year—well below the expected inflation rate and equivalent to a 4 percent cut in real terms. Other benefits have been frozen including Child Benefit and the Working Tax Credit available to low-paid workers. Over nine million families… Continue reading
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The health hurricane: a year of destruction in the NHS By Alex Nunn
It is almost a year since the controversial Health and Social Care Act was passed in March 2012. At the time, campaigners issued apocalyptic warnings that it would break up the health service, allowing the NHS to be offered up for privatisation bit by bit. A year on that fear is being realised at breathtaking… Continue reading
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Market Madness By Craig Murray
Three days ago I collapsed for the second time in two days; an ambulance was called and a paramedic arrived within 5 minutes, with a full ambulance arriving inside a further five minutes. The NHS at its amazing best. I am well looked after. Yet a couple of weeks previously I had an example of… Continue reading
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Death by neglect: Lawsuit reveals ‘normalization of cruelty’ in UK health system
A UK hospital has apologized and paid a settlement following a lawsuit that revealed years of grave malpractice. The accounts of negligence included letting a patient starve to death and reports of nurses mocking patients. Continue reading
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UK hospitals going digital to fill NHS budget shortfall – report
You’ll no longer need to leave your house to visit the doctor in the UK. Video chats will soon replace face-to-face appointments in a bid to save nearly $5 billion in healthcare costs, a report claims. Critics warn the move may put lives at risk. Continue reading
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NHS privatisation: Compilation of financial and vested interests
This list represents the dire state of our democracy. The financial and vested interests of our MPs and Lords in private healthcare. Over 200 parliamentarians all allowed to vote on a bill that they clearly have something to gain from. Who cares that they have put it in the register of interests. This doesn’t excuse… Continue reading
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UK Pathology Labs Suffer In Quality Under Serco Management
The privatisation of pathology services in two London hospitals has led to increased clinical problems and financial instability, an investigation by Corporate Watch, revealed in the Guardian today, has found. Continue reading
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How the BBC betrayed the NHS: an exclusive report on two years of censorship and distortion By Oliver Huitson
In the two years building up to the government’s NHS reform bill, the BBC appears to have categorically failed to uphold its remit of impartiality, parroting government spin as uncontested fact, whilst reporting only a narrow, shallow view of opposition to the bill. In addition, key news appears to have been censored. The following in-depth… Continue reading
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THE BBC’S COVERAGE OF THE HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE ACT By James
This 8,000 word report uses rigorous research methods and detailed analysis to confirm what many have claimed: that the BBC has failed in its responsibilities to inform the British public about one of the most important pieces of legislation of the 21st century. Continue reading
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EVENT 9 May 2012: Defend the NHS! Strategies of Resistance
Red Pepper is bringing together NHS experts, health professionals and activists to discuss the impact of the coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill – and plans to resist it Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘People Will Die’ – The End Of The NHS. Part 2: Buried By The BBC
Every day, researcher Éoin Clarke runs a check on the number of parts of the NHS that have been ‘carved up and offered to privateers that day. The sad news is that the NHS sell off is indeed accelerating.’ Clarke has identified 81 NHS contracts worth a total of more than £2 billion that are… Continue reading
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The NHS saved me so now we have to save the NHS!
30 April 2012 — williambowles.info A pathetic excuse I know for no new posts but I had a heart attack last week and got out of hospital yesterday. Story to follow coincidentally? the Media Lens piece soon. Not so much on my experiences with the wonderful, beautiful NHS workers who saved my life and took Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘People Will Die’ – The End Of The NHS. Part 1: The Corporate Assault
Every day, researcher Éoin Clarke runs a check on the number of parts of the NHS that have been ‘carved up and offered to privateers that day. The sad news is that the NHS sell off is indeed accelerating.’ Clarke has identified 81 NHS contracts worth a total of more than £2 billion that are… Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘People Will Die’ – The End Of The NHS. Part 1: The Corporate Assault
Few political acts have exposed the sham of British ‘democracy’ like the decision to dismantle the National Health Service. In essence, the issues are simple: Continue reading
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NO2ID Newsletter (Second series) No.4 – March 15th: GOVERNMENT FACES WRONG WAY ON PRIVACY, SURVEILLANCE
The Protection of Freedoms Bill is still in parliament, having had its first reading on 11th February 2011. It is in any case a disappointing piece of legislation, the Home Office seemingly doing the absolute minimum necessary to cover the narrowest reading of pre-election promises. In our briefing, we could give it no more than… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 