Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, October 2022
The news you didn’t see this week…
NHS
Message for the Chancellor: Public health is an economic issue
‘What the government is resolutely refusing to acknowledge, let alone address, is the crisis of people who aren’t working not because they don’t have to financially, not because they’re choosing a life of leisure, but simply because they can’t, due to ill health’
Thérèse Coffey ridiculed for policing health workers’ grammar while the NHS is in crisis
The new health secretary issued guidance instructing workers to not use the Oxford comma
Truss and Sunak under fire for NHS crisis ‘complacency’
The Tory leadership contenders have been accused of being ‘worryingly bare’ on health policy ideas to solve the crisis the NHS is currently grappling with.
Liz Truss argued for cutting doctors’ pay and charging patients to see GPs, unearthed report shows
The report, entitled ‘Back to Black’, which was uncovered by TalkTV, also proposed cuts to the pensions, education and communities budgets as part of push to shrink the size of the state under the then Labour government.
Government urged to take bolder action to address rising health inequality
As Rishi Sunak plans to charge NHS patients £10 for ‘no shows’, reports show growing disparity in access to healthcare and rising health inequality across the UK.
Rishi Sunak’s plan to fine patients £10 for missing appointments is condemned by NHS leaders
“Charging patients for missed appointments would not only undermine the essential trust between doctor and patient, but ultimately threaten the fundamental principle that the NHS delivers free care at the point of need, for all.”
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 2, July 2022
The news you didn’t see this week…
Jon Trickett MP: The NHS crisis is a result of Tory policies and we must fight them every step of the way
Let’s return to Aneurin Bevan who also famously said that “the NHS will last as long as there are folk left with the faith to fight for it.”
NHS outsourcing associated with higher rise in treatable deaths says Lancet study
A new study from the Lancet shows that deaths from treatable causes have risen in line with increased privatisation spending in the NHS.