Campaigners demand Keir Starmer commits to ending NHS privatisation
“The call from the public is too clear for Keir Starmer to ignore – we want an NHS we can be proud of again.”
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Tories roasted after pledging just 900 new NHS beds after cutting 12,000 since 2010
“The elephant in the room is who will staff these additional beds? Nursing staff are already spread too thinly over too many patients.”
Junior Doctor roasts Tories for making the NHS among the worst health systems in Europe
It comes as NHS waiting lists reach a record 7.6million.
Rishi Sunak savaged on-air by junior doctor over treatment of NHS staff
‘I think it is amazing that we are blaming the increase in waiting lists on doctors going on strike’
Government will miss target of 40 new hospitals, scathing report from spending watchdog finds
“By the definition the government used in 2020, it will not now deliver 40 new hospitals by 2030.”
NHS turns 75: How the Right reacted
The senior doctors’ strike has proven a particular bugbear for many on the Right. Amid the gushing anniversary celebrations, the Tory press didn’t hold back in making its contempt over the consultants’ industrial action known.
NHS faces ‘worst crisis in its history’, experts warn on service’s 75th anniversary
The stark warning was made in a letter sent to Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer and Ed Davey by the Health Foundation, Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund.
Celebrities join forces in call for end to NHS privatisation
They’re launching a new campaign called ‘Only the NHS’
Leeds hosts Northern March for the NHS
‘Our demands include safe staffing and fair pay for NHS workers, an end to outsourcing as divisive and wasteful, and an immediate injection of capital funding to help start repairing the damage of 13 years of Conservative neglect.’
Tory minister in car crash interview over NHS pay row
Health Minister Helen Whately appeared not to know how pay review bodies worked