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Published in: ourNHSHow ‘self-pay’ is shrinking the English NHS by stealth
One hospital trust last week announced a 'pause' its controversial MyChoice scheme after an outcry. But Warrington...
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Published in: ourNHSOsborne hides his fiscal secrets under the hospital bed
The NHS promises yet more mythical savings to unlock a few crumbs from the Chancellor's red box. Meanwhile its...
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Published in: ourNHSVote Yes for the NHS - independence is the best chance to protect Scotland's NHS
The NHS has become the burning issue of the Scottish Independence Referendum. OurNHS takes a close look, and finds...
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Published in: ourNHSFrom Iraq to Tilbury: migrants, health and borders
We bear powerless witness to mountain massacres, to bombs raining on life-saving hospitals. But does our compassion...
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Published in: ourNHS'Fraud' and 'cover-up' exposed in failing semi-privatised Irish healthcare
Commerce has corrupted healthcare in the Irish semi-privatised insurance-based system.
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Published in: ourNHSKings Fund suggests NHS fees - but is it really 'independent'?
The question of NHS 'affordability' is used by think tanks and politicians to browbeat us into accepting regressive...
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Published in: ourNHSWho is behind Reform's call for NHS charges?
The private health insurance industry has been trying to get think tanks to help it make money in Britain for the...
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Published in: ourNHSShould you have to 'earn' your right to use the NHS?
More NHS migrant charging proposals, although migrants pay more than average tax already, set a divisive new trend.
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Published in: ourNHSA single stitch? $500 please
Hospital costs soar in the US, showing the failings of the marketised system just as England races towards it.
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Published in: ourNHSNHS charges - the Zombie policies walking into Downing Street?
Reform - the think tank that provided David Cameron with his lead health advisor - is trying to resuscitate...
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Published in: ourNHSHow to abolish a free health service, step one
The migrant NHS plans are just the first and politically easiest step to ending a 'free at the point of use' NHS.
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Published in: ourNHSThe NHS and dog whistle politics
The new Immigration Bill introduces hefty charges for migrants to use the NHS. It is a costly, wrong-headed insult...
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Published in: ourNHSExperts oppose migrant healthcare proposals - will government listen?
Almost everyone from lawyers and healthcare experts to trade unions is telling government their proposals to charge...
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Published in: ourNHSMigrants, "fairness" and the NHS
If the government does not have evidence of a significant problem with “health tourism”, why is it proposing setting...
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Published in: ourNHSMore NHS hospitals turning to private patients
As NHS funding cuts bite, are NHS hospitals muddying the waters between NHS and private patients?
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Published in: ourNHSHealthcare in Britain - first they came for the immigrants
NHS and public sector trade unionists speak out in defence of universal health care.
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Published in: ourNHSShirley Williams suggests new NHS charges
Baroness Shirley Williams - who claimed to have protected the principle of an NHS 'free at the point of need' -...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFive points which must not be lost in the debate on NHS access
The Government’s plans to further limit migrant access to NHS services as part of the forthcoming Immigration Bill...
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Published in: ourNHSA risky business
As part of our new "Reclaiming the NHS" series, a practice nurse and 38 Degrees member from Luton who wishes to...
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Published in: ourNHS"This Can't Go On" - Cameron hires private health lobbyist into the heart of government
Nick Seddon, former lobbyist and private healthcare advocate, today walks through the doors of `10 Downing Street to...