The Age Old Excuse – how older cancer patients are still being under treated
A new report from Macmillan Cancer Support today shows older cancer patients continue to be under-treated – often with devastating consequences.
NHS
Campaigners step up fight to save lives and Save Lewisham Hospital
Jos Bell writes on the progress of the Save Lewisham Hospital campaign and the continued ignorance of Messrs Hunt and Kershaw.
Watch: Joan Ruddock and Heidi Alexander make powerful, impassioned defences of Lewisham Hospital
Watch Lewisham Labour MPs Dame Joan Ruddock and Heidi Alexander make the case for saving Lewisham Hospital in today’s House of Commons NHS Funding Debate.
NHSs for all? Why universal health coverage is key to improving health worldwide
The UN is in the motions of pushing for a global incarnation of universal health care and has the potential to rewrite the global framework for poverty.
Watch: Balls mocks Osborne’s u-turning, on fuel duty, flood defences, regional pay…
Ed Balls poked fun at George Osborne’s many, many u-turns in his autumn statement response today.
Comment: “Worked to the limit and completely exhausted” – time to support our under-fire nurses
It’s time to support our overworked and underpaid nurses, who have come under fierce attack from the right wing in recent months.
UK Statistics Authority: Real terms NHS spending is down under the Tories
The UK Statistics Authority has contradicted Tory claims there has been a real terms rise in NHS spending – spending was lower in 2011-12 than in 2009-10.
Counting the cost of social problems
This week the Early Action Task Force released a report calling for greater understanding of the cost of social problems.
Join the fight to save lives and Save Lewisham hospital
Jos Bell explains why we must to save Lewisham Hospital from being a victim of the coaltion’s NHS shake-up.
Watch: Miliband and Cameron clash over NHS at PMQs
Ed Miliband and David Cameron clash on the NHS, PMQs, 21/11/12.