NHS
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“Why I do and why you should fight for our #NHS” By Glen Chisholm
By the law of averages it is highly unlikely that if you’re reading this in the UK, that you have had no experience of the NHS. I’ve had many myself; from being born in an NHS hospital to trips for sports injuries over the years, from treatment for a heart problem to watching my father… Continue reading
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Brand new OurNHS guide to NHS campaigning and resources
10 December 2013 — Our NHS A brand new guide to NHS campaigning and resources from OurNHS’s own archives and across the web. Continue reading
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Resources – Get information on what’s happening to your local NHS
10 December 2013 — Our NHS What to ask and how to ask it. Part of the OurNHS Resource Guide. Continue reading
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‘Whole Person Care – Labour’s big NHS idea or yet more chaos? By Shirley Rahman
Labour’s ‘big idea’ on health is to merge it with social care and maybe even benefits. It calls it ‘whole person care’. But has it thought through the implications? Continue reading
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NHS: In the days when I used to kill people… By Jeremy Fox
You hear a lot of bad things about the NHS, much of which from the Tories, the gutter press and those with a vested interest in the privatisation of health. I was braced for the worse, but what I got actually made me feel proud. We need to hold onto this. Continue reading
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What lies behind Hunt’s message of the ‘bad, cruel’ NHS? By James Lazou
Hunt’s message is not about spreading hope or building a culture change in the NHS. These comments come from a minister who is only too willing to run down the NHS and its staff, ‘liberated’ as he now is of any legal duty tosecure a comprehensive health service. Hunt’s message on cruelty is yet another… Continue reading
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What does the NHS’s new IT plan really want to extract from us? By Jane Fae Ozimek
The theory behind care.data is straightforward enough. Data from all (non-dissenting) UK patients is to be lodged in a central database, from where it may be used for admin purposes, for statistical analysis by the NHS or sold on to select research companies. Continue reading
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NHS funding changes will worsen inequality
The government is planning funding shifts that will reduce access to NHS services where they are needed most Continue reading
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NHS charges – the Zombie policies walking into Downing Street? By Caroline Malloy
Reform – the think tank that provided David Cameron with his lead health advisor – is trying to resuscitate discredited policies on NHS charging in England and introduce some dangerous new ideas to boot. Continue reading
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Mutualise the private sector, not England’s NHS By Dexter Whitfield
As the government pushes the ‘mutualisation’ of the NHS, Professor Dexter Whitfield argues all such transfers are privatisation. Continue reading
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Does the NHS need a ‘new broom’ from the private sector? By David Zigmond
New NHS boss Simon Stevens will inherit an NHS in crisis. Will his outsider status and private sector experience be just the new broom the NHS needs – or is that part of the problem? Continue reading
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Close smaller hospitals in haste, repent at leisure By Shibley Rahman
The UK government has quietly launched an inquiry into whether the smaller half of our hospitals are ‘sustainable’. Should we be worried? Continue reading
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Privatisation, a very British disease? By Joe Guinan and Thomas M. Hanna
Britain is an extreme oddity regarding privatisation: nowhere else in the advanced world is there such a willingness to sell everything that isn’t nailed down. Time and again the British public is ripped off and sold out by its leaders. Continue reading
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#BurnAusterity: Join a ‘Bonfire of Austerity’ action near you
Tomorrow’s [Nov 5] ‘Bonfire of Austerity’ looks set to be one of the biggest days of action for many years. Actions are taking place up and down the country as people are forced into poverty, forced to choose whether to heat the home or put food on the table and forced into the hands of… Continue reading
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Mythbuster: Health warning By Jacky Davis
By repackaging privatisation as ‘reform’, the government has tried to sell voters the idea of dismantling the health service. Jacky Davis exposes the main marketing myths behind the NHS giveaway Continue reading
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Get your Clause off our hospitals! By Jos Bell
An Amendment hastily tagged onto the Care Bill, Amendment 168A (to be inserted after Clause 109) gives the power to any hospital administrator appointed in England to dismantle whichever hospital services they may take a fancy to, as long as they neighbour a hospital which is deemed to be failing. Continue reading
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How to abolish a free health service, step one By David Cullen
The Tory plan to charge migrants for NHS treatment has rightly come under fire for being policy directed at an invented non-issue; because it will therefore probably cost more money than it will save; and because it will change the doctor-patient relation in an insidious way – asking doctors to police their patients. Continue reading
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NHS: Your right to know By Grahame Morris MP
What has often gone unnoticed [in the privatisation of the NHS] is the democratic deficit. The erosion of our rights to question those who run public services and spend our money. This is what prompted me to introduce a Ten Minute Rule Bill calling for Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation to be extended to private… Continue reading
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