GP surgeries run by the private sector underperform compared to NHS-run surgeries on nearly all counts, a new study released today (April 24) has found. It’s only the latest in a growing mountain of…Read more…
End NHS market experiment
Hundreds of trade unionists last night (April 23) rallied to Save the NHS at Leeds Town Hall. The event was organised by Unions Together, the campaigning voice of the 14 trade unions,…Read more…
Fighting to keep NHS in public hands
“The care and treatment I have received from the NHS and the support I have received from Unite has both been amazing, ” says 21 year-old Callum Stanland, a Unite member from Grimsby who began work…Read more…
Envy of the globe
Polls have consistently shown, both months ago and now, with the election only two weeks away, that the NHS is the issue of highest concern to voters. And there’s a reason why the…Read more…
Ideology over treatment
The Tory recipe to improve cancer services has resulted in lost momentum and their health reforms have created confusion and fragmentation. Waiting times for treatment hit the lowest point…Read more…
How Ukip would run NHS
Health spokespersons from four parties – Labour, Conservative, Lib-Dem and Ukip – took to the stage yesterday (April 21) to debate the future of the NHS at the British Medical Association. As…Read more…
The great nursing numbers spin
Conservative leader David Cameron boasts of getting rid of 20,000 NHS ‘bureaucrats’ and putting that money into more doctors and nurses. But does his claim that there are now 7,000 more nurses…Read more…
On the critical list
Who would have ever thought that pathologists would be locked out of their own lab? That ambulance workers would go on strike? That a private equity group would run a hospital? And yet…Read more…
How can Tories be trusted with NHS?
The coalition government has left a huge hole in NHS finances and services under significant strain with a real risk that patient care will suffer according to a new report published by The…Read more…
Stop slash and privatise agenda
When Aneurin Bevan, chief architect of the NHS, said, “The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with the faith to fight for it,” perhaps he had a premonition of the state the service would be…Read more…