Caroline Molloy - openDemocracy (Page 13)

Paying for private failure in England's NHS - again

The NHS is paying millions to a failed private Treatment Centre to escape a contract after a series of patient deaths - and the figures don't quite add up.

By Caroline Molloy

/ 8 Aug 2013

Save our NHS - holiday reading special

Stuck for some holiday reading? Why not brush up on what's happening to our NHS...

By Caroline Molloy

/ 19 Jul 2013

More NHS hospitals turning to private patients

As NHS funding cuts bite, are NHS hospitals muddying the waters between NHS and private patients?

By Caroline Molloy

/ 17 Jul 2013

What is G4S doing in England's NHS?

As G4S is exposed for overcharging on government contracts, we ask - just what is G4S doing in the NHS?

By Caroline Molloy

/ 15 Jul 2013

First they came for the gingers...

The government is consulting on whether to charge ginger-haired people to use the NHS.

By Caroline Molloy

/ 8 Jul 2013

Shirley Williams suggests new NHS charges

Baroness Shirley Williams - who claimed to have protected the principle of an NHS 'free at the point of need' - today suggested we should consider GP charges and ending free prescriptions for pensioners.

By Caroline Molloy

/ 4 Jul 2013

Keep the faith - a review of the UK's People's Assembly

On Saturday 4000 activists gathered in London to discuss austerity and privatisation, and how to respond. Caroline Molloy found a lack of space to fully participate and shape solutions - but shoots of hope for the future.

By Caroline Molloy

/ 26 Jun 2013

Milburn, the NHS, and Britain's 'revolving door'

As the government ploughs on with its NHS ‘reforms’ in the face of opposition from medics and the public, whose interests are really driving these reforms? The latest move by former Health Secretary Alan Milburn provides a clue.

By Caroline Molloy

/ 23 May 2013

After Section 75 - where next for NHS campaigners?

On 24th April the House of Lords voted through the NHS ‘section 75’ regulations, which open up the NHS to far more private sector competition. The overwhelming opposition from grassroots campaigners and NHS workers fell, ultimately, on deaf ears. So where do we go from here?

By Caroline Molloy

/ 8 May 2013

Interview with Louise Irvine, part 2

Louise Irvine, a GP and chair of Save Lewisham Hospital, speaks to Caroline Molloy about the regulations about to be voted on in the Lords which enforce competition on nearly the whole NHS, and the wider impact of last year's bitterly opposed reforms (see part 1, here).

By Caroline Molloy

/ 24 Apr 2013

The Lib Dems' defence of the NHS privatisation regulations doesn't stand up to scrutiny

Liberal Democrats appear to be sending out variations on a stock response when questioned on the section 75 regulations. Yet their response appears to contradict both expert legal opinion and the Lords own scrutiny committee, not to mention leading health professionals, practitioners and leading c

By Caroline Molloy

/ 22 Apr 2013

Interview with Louise Irvine on the imminent privatisation regulations and wider NHS reform

Louise Irvine, a GP and chair of Save Lewisham Hospital, speaks to Caroline Molloy about the regulations about to be voted on in the Lords which enforce competition on nearly the whole NHS, and the wider impact of last year's bitterly opposed reforms.

By Caroline Molloy

/ 22 Apr 2013