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NHS

NHS

Our cash-starved NHS is being forced to turn to the private sector for investment and capacity

Richard Bourne John Lister
14 October, 2021

‘For the first time ever, more that 50% of an important NHS funded service – hip and knee replacements – are being paid for privately rather than delivered by the NHS.’

5 problems with the government’s social care reforms

Alexandra Warren
11 September, 2021

‘The funding pot being talked about for social care is not sufficient to even address the issues of today.’

Levelling up

Right-wingers turn on Boris Johnson for ‘shameful betrayal over tax rises’

Basit Mahmood
9 September, 2021

One thinks it ‘guarantees the total victory of socialism in Britain’.

Ten things you need to know about the social care funding shake-up

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
8 September, 2021

The cacophony of angry reactions highlights gaping holes and injustices with Boris Johnson’s social care and NHS funding proposals.

Prof Prem Sikka: Tax hike is regressive and fails to address social, healthcare and pension crises

Prem Sikka
8 September, 2021

The government did not have to hit retirees and the less well-off. Billions could be raised through progressive measures.

650,000 sign petition to make medical cannabis accessible to children with epilepsy

Alexandra Warren
5 September, 2021

The End Our Pain campaign is calling on MPs to help the children ahead of Monday’s Parliamentary debate.

Tories slammed after ordering NHS trusts to describe refurbishments as ‘new hospitals’

Basit Mahmood
27 August, 2021

The guidance issued to trusts goes on to define what constitutes a new hospital.

‘Exhausted, demoralised and dismayed’: NHS nurse speaks out against 3% pay rise

Alexandra Warren
31 July, 2021

Dave Carr said that the issue is not only about money, but also about the survival of the NHS.

Fair pay for the NHS

NHS: Why a 3% pay rise might be the best unions can get

Alex Maguire
26 July, 2021

Void of trade union cooperation, and with the Covid exit-wave making industrial action difficult, a 3% pay rise may well be as good as it gets, writes Alex Maguire.

Health and social care workers ‘appalled’ at exemption from self-isolation

Lucy Skoulding
19 July, 2021

From today, frontline NHS and social care staff in England won’t have to isolate after being pinged by the app

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