There’s a progressive way to live with Covid that includes protecting the most vulnerable
‘A public debate framed around ongoing restrictions versus an unacceptable right-wing conception of ‘living with the virus’ is therefore profoundly unhelpful.’
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Government ministers reported to police over their mishandling of the pandemic
The Met Police told LFF they had no comment to make.
Warning issued about using the NHS as a vaccination service every few months
The head of the Covid vaccination programme has issued caution about reorienting the NHS to vaccination every three to six months.
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Prof Prem Sikka: The Health and Care Bill means entire Hospitals can be handed over to corporations
‘Over the years, the Conservative and New Labour governments have chipped away at the NHS by privatising some of its services, such as physiotherapy and blood-testing’.
NHS privatisation: Nearly 3 quarters of people are worried for the future of our health service
The new Health and Care Bill would allow private companies to sit on bodies that decide how NHS money is spent
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, November 2021
The news you didn’t see this week…
How every MP voted on the ‘NHS Corporate Takeover Bill’
The Health and Care Bill contains heavily contested NHS reforms and has been branded by campaigners ‘a charter for corruption’ and a ‘Corporate Takeover Bill’.
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The new Health and Care Bill is a charter for corruption
‘This new Bill that will be voted on in parliament this week should really be called the NHS Corporate Takeover Bill.’