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Published in: ourNHSJohnson's hospital building, “seed money”, and how PFI never went awayThere are good reasons to be worried that the planned hospital building programme might further indebt us to big...
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Published in: ourNHSBart’s: a flagship hits the rocks of PFIThe biggest health trust in England - the PFI-indebted Barts - has been put into 'special measures' after inspectors...
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Published in: ourNHSFifty shades of tax avoidance, or, what are the bankers doing with our schools and hospitals?Huge sums that are supposed to fund the National Health Service are finding their way into yet more offshore tax...
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Published in: ourNHSSeven things everyone should know about the Private Finance InitiativeThe Private Finance Initiative is a big part of the privatisation that's killing England's NHS, so why aren’t any of...
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Published in: ourNHSThe People vs. PFI – Giving PFI a run for our moneyThe Private Finance Initiative is an unfair, unaccountable rip-off, destroying our NHS. A conference this Saturday...
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Published in: ourNHSGreat Western Hospital slams failing PFI contractors - but can it escape?
Disastrous privatisation deals mean failing contractors Carillion have a stranglehold on NHS hospitals, with...
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Published in: Shine A LightDavid Cameron praises 'Health Heroes' while he destroys the NHSIn a Daily Mail campaign the Prime Minister deploys his personal tragedy and patronises health care workers as...
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Published in: ourNHSThe World Bank, the PFI hospital and the destruction of a nation's healthcare systemThe World Bank promised Lesotho that its PFI-style hospital - the first in any low-income country - would cost the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPrivatisation, a very British diseaseBritain is an extreme oddity regarding privatisation: nowhere else in the advanced world is there such a willingness...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe metropolitanisation of gains, the nationalisation of lossesThe prosperous South East can no longer afford to subsidise the rest of the United Kingdom. Or so runs the...
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Published in: ourNHSPeterborough Hospital, the NHS and Britain's privatisation racketSolving a hospital disaster that was caused by privatisation with more privatisation, makes little sense - until you...
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Published in: ourNHSShout from the rooftops, Labour, save England's NHS!Labour has a chance to show it’s serious about saving the NHS from death by a thousand privatisations.
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Published in: ourNHSDecision day for Hunt
Hunt has to decide by tomorrow whether to appeal his defeat over the Lewisham Hospital closure - but if he succeeds...
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Published in: ourNHSNHS gets a small refundAny extra A&E cash is welcome - but Cameron is still putting private providers and investors before patients.
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Published in: Shine A LightWhat 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?
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Published in: ourNHS“People will die” hears Michael Mansfield QC-chaired enquiry
In advance of this week’s high court battle between Lewisham Hospital campaigners and Jeremy Hunt, a People’s...
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Published in: ourNHSLewisham hospital being sacrificed to the bankers
In Lewisham, the government is sacrificing a thriving local hospital in order to protect the interests of bankers,...
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Published in: ourNHSThe neoliberal epidemic striking healthcare
Healthcare systems across the world are facing a 'man-made disaster' - the imposition of market-style 'reforms' that...
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Published in: ourNHSThe Lewisham scandal: market failure and the NHSNext week Jeremy Hunt will announce the closure of A&E and maternity services, in the face of a concerted campaign...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPrivate Finance Initiative: the scandal that refuses to break
The PFI scheme puts money from the British taxpayer into the pockets of private companies. Parliament has found it...
