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NHS

Right-Wing Watch

Happy birthday, NHS – But will it survive privatisation?

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 July, 2025 (2 weeks ago)

As we celebrate its 78th year, our beloved NHS faces an ongoing threat: death by privatisation. The question is: Can Labour be trusted to protect what Nye Bevan built, or will it preside over its gradual dismantling? And what would happen if, God forbid, Farage and Reform got into power?

An NHS lanyard
Opinion

Our maternity services are in crisis. It’s time for the government to act.

Adam Dance
24 June, 2025 (4 weeks ago)

We need ministers to stop pretending this is someone else’s problem

reeves
News

5 key takeaways from Rachel Reeves’ Spending Review

Basit Mahmood
11 June, 2025

It’s a spending review of some significance.

NHS worker conditions
News

Radiology delays linked to ‘unsustainable’ NHS privatisation

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 June, 2025

If current trends continue, annual spending on outsourcing could exceed £400 million by 2028, enough to fund 3,389 full-time consultant radiologists.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in the House of Commons
News

GMB union perfectly sums up why Nigel Farage is no friend of working people

Basit Mahmood
28 May, 2025

“Nigel Farage the worker’s friend? No chance.”

Wes Streeting
Opinion

This is how Wes Streeting can ensure the NHS isn’t part of any trade deal

Seamus Logan
16 May, 2025

SNP MP Seamus Logan explains how his private members bill could protect the NHS

Child poverty in the UK
News

Ending poverty could save Britain £75bn a year, says charity

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
4 May, 2025

Trussell is calling for an “essentials guarantee” to be embedded within Universal Credit to ensure recipients can afford basic needs such as food and heating.

A photo of the health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting
News

Labour government recruits over 1,500 extra GPs since October in bid to end 8am appointment scramble

Basit Mahmood
8 April, 2025

“This doesn’t mean it’s ‘job done’. Loads to do. But the NHS is going in the right direction.”

Ashfield
News

Lee Anderson’s constituents left shocked after being told about Reform’s plans to start charging for the NHS

Basit Mahmood
28 March, 2025

Constituents in Ashfield, which is represented by Reform UK’s Lee Anderson were left shocked after learning about the party’s plans to make people pay to use the NHS. In a video released by the Trades Union Congress, people are askedtest

A photo of the prime minister, Keir Starmer, announcing that Labour will abolish NHS England
News

Reactions to Keir Starmer’s decision to scrap NHS England

Olivia Barber
14 March, 2025

Unions are unhappy about potential job losses while others are worried it could lead to further privatisation of the health service

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