Are cancer drugs really the best place to make savings?
The government’s consistently huge spends on NHS reform and the Trident programme indicate dubious priorities.
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Why it’s dishonest to claim that the NHS isn’t being privatised
To hold ideological support for the privatisation is one thing, but to pretend it isn’t happening is a far more insidious lie.
Supporting Clive Efford’s bill could save the NHS
The coalition’s reforms have caused massive inefficiencies, internal conflicts and confusion.
By-election candidates are still refusing to answer questions on the NHS
With a likely win days away, UKIP candidate Mark Reckless still has not made his NHS policy clear.
4 things you should know about new NHS England chief Simon Stevens
The new head of NHS England, Simon Stevens, only started his job yesterday, but he is already facing criticism from unions over comments made by him about the role of private healthcare companies in the NHS. In a speech deliveredtest
Influential journal criticises government for viewing NHS as a “failing bank or business”
The leading medical journal Lancet has said in an editorial that the government should stop treating the NHS as a ‘failing bank or business.’
Why we need a political campaign to reinstate the NHS
By removing the mandate on government to provide a health service, the Health and Social Care Act 2012 is the crowning achievement of the architects of this long recessional from universality. Our response must be political too.
Banners and brollies: The fight to save Lewisham Hospital
Jos Bell reports on the march to save Lewisham Hospital and writes about what is next for the movement.
The Health and Social Care Act is hindering the aim of engaging patients
The Health and Social Care Act is hindering the coalition’s laudable aim of engaging patients, writes the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society’s Jamie Hewitt.
Labour must ensure patients not profit are the way forward for the NHS
In fighting the health and social care act, Labour must reject outmoded marketisation, building a consensus around the NHS’s founding values.