privatisation
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NHS: GP surgeries MUST DO BETTER on data handling, says ICO By Kelly Fiveash
A number of GP surgeries in England allowed their employees to have unrestricted internet access – thereby increasing the risk of data being leaked, hacked and targeted by viruses, Britain’s information watchdog warned today. Continue reading
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Campaigning Lewisham GP to stand in Euro elections for new National Health party By Caroline Malloy
London GP Louise Irvine, who led the successful ‘Save Lewisham Hospital’ campaign, is standing for European parliament for the National Health Action Party in a bid to stop privatisation and NHS cuts. Continue reading
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Inhuman treatment of UK woman in privately-run prison By Dennis Moore
Nadine Wright, a 37-year-old from Peterborough, was a remand prisoner when she was left alone in a prison cell in November after she suffered a miscarriage. It is alleged that, with the dead foetus on the floor, she was then told to clean up the blood in the cell. She was on remand because she… Continue reading
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The NHS – my part in its downfall By Anonymous
10 January 2014 — Our NHS I have broken the NHS in to digestible bits ripe for being eaten up by private companies, confesses an NHS clinician. Continue reading
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OurNHS in 2013 – some highlights
OurNHS is on a publishing break until the New Year. Why not check out some of our stories you may have missed? Continue reading
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British NHS director promotes ‘restructuring’ of accident and emergency departments By Ajanta Silva
Keogh wants to implement a two-tier system of A&E services within five years. Up to 70 A&E units will become Major Emergency Centres, while the remaining 70-100 units will be downgraded to ordinary non-specialist Emergency Centres. At the same time, Keogh says people should be encouraged to get help from alternative sources—the NHS 111 emergency… Continue reading
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NHS regulations are unfair: they’ll stop us tax dodging! By Richard Whittell
The healthcare companies taking over NHS provision are lobbying regulators to allow their tax avoidance schemes to continue. Continue reading
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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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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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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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G4S & Serco fraud: Oops, we couldn’t tell the difference between right and wrong By Ellie Butt
British outsourcers cheated taxpayers out of tens of millions of pounds. Yesterday they said sorry. So that’s all right, then. All eyes were on the representatives for G4S and Serco, companies that charged taxpayers tens of millions of pounds for doing absolutely nothing. Continue reading
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The realities of outsourcing: court interpreters mean miscarriages of justice By Joel Sharples
Since court interpreting has been outsourced, wages have plummeted, quality of interpreting has dropped to a dangerous level, and the justice system has often ground to a halt. A foretaste of what to expect from outsourced services across the country? 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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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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Video: UK's Royal Mail Privatized and Sold to Investors
John Weeks: The privatization of the Royal Mail will enrich investors but leave workers worse off Continue reading
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Video: UK’s Royal Mail Privatized and Sold to Investors
John Weeks: The privatization of the Royal Mail will enrich investors but leave workers worse off 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
The New Dark Age 