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.”
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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
Protect our NHS: Petition urging government to end cuts attracts hundreds of thousands of signatures
As NHS trusts continue to face funding cuts, and junior doctors strike over an ongoing dispute over pay, a petition calling on Rishi Sunak to end health service spending cuts is gathering momentum.
Tory pledge to build 40 ‘new’ hospitals lies in tatters
‘Another of Johnson’s lies in the 2019 election exposed’
Caroline Lucas: The government’s attacks on the rights of nurses must be resisted
‘The equal pay act was over half a century ago. Yet the Chancellor thinks he can get away with underpaying a predominantly female workforce’
Tories abandon pledge to hire 6,000 extra GPs
Labour branded the abandoned pledged as “yet another broken promise”.