Pounds over patients: medical consultants risk prioritising private profits, says study
In one extreme case, former breast surgeon Ian Paterson carried out unnecessary and damaging cancer surgery on over 750 women in order to profit.
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Medicine menus: How the NHS is being chipped away by stealth
“Rationing must be called out for what it is – privatisation driven by rationing,” says John Puntis of Keep Our NHS Public.
Teachers’ union says mental health training just a “sticking plaster”
What good is spotting mental health problems if there’s no funding to help tackle them?
It is time people got real on the EU and the NHS
A hard Brexit is not our National Health Service’s biggest threat. The Tories are.
Forget trade deals – there’s another attack on our NHS happening right now
As another health trust prepares to offload its services to a ‘SubCo’, Richard Bourne looks at an under-reported threat to the NHS.
IPPR: Social care should be free
If you’re diagnosed with cancer you’re looked after. Why not when you get dementia?
Another part of the NHS looks set for a dangerous privatisation
Thousands of women and staff would be affected by privatisation
NHS Trust taken to court after dropping potential contract with company owned by Grenfell cladding firm
The company say the Trust scrapped the tendering process due to ‘political pressure’ from Jeremy Corbyn and campaigners.
Government agrees to stop snooping on migrant patients
A leak and a legal challenge has forced the government to U-turn
Shock NHS figures: PFI set to cost health service MORE in a decade than now
Labour has proposed bringing existing PFI contracts back under public ownership