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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat England can learn from the US - health privatisation and AIDS activism
Health must be provided socially yet the NHS needs some fundamental reshaping. Campaigners should look at the AIDS...
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Published in: ourNHS2020 Health working with Lord Howe to make the NHS a"UK Plc Asset"
A healthcare think tank with multiple links to coalition peers wants to turn the NHS into an “asset” of “UK Plc”,...
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Published in: ourNHSThe fruits of our Labour? Resisting health and education privatisation in the UK
Last week’s speech by UK Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg raised alarm bells amongst both education and...
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Published in: ourNHSEVENT - Hunt the Hunt, Saturday 15 June 10am-8pm
Join health campaigners and workers as they Hunt for Jeremy Hunt in his South West Surrey constituency. Transport...
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Published in: ourNHSSir David Nicholson's latest bright idea for the English NHS
Sir David Nicholson's parting shot to the NHS is to suggest scrapping the hated 'purchaser-provider split' - and...
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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: ourNHSIntroducing the Centre for Health and the Public Interest
A new online think tank, the Centre for Health and the Public Interest, has just launched. It aims to make the...
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Published in: ourNHSNHS reforms? What NHS reforms? A call for citizen journalism
Media failings and government distortions mean many people don't believe the NHS is being dismantled. It’s down to...
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Published in: ourNHSMilburn, 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...
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Published in: ourNHSPrivatised NHS call centres are causing an A&E crisis
A 38 Degrees member didn't find the government's line on the A&E crisis very convincing. When he obtained the...
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Published in: ourNHSFree Trade, 'Trade Creep' and the Risks to our Public Health
Trade agreements are not based on natural laws or inevitable necessities, but represent political values and choices...
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Published in: ourNHSLord Owen condemns “conspiracy of silence” on the EU-US trade deal
Introducing his revised NHS bill, Lord Owen calls today for transparency from Prime Minister David Cameron over the...
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Published in: ourNHSLondon's hospital campaigners march on Downing Street
A&E departments across London are already overstretched - but nearly half of them are now threatened with closures,...
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Published in: ourNHSEVENT - Day of Action to Defend London's NHS, 18 May
Join Save our Hospital campaigners from across London for a day of action aginst the biggest threats to London's NHS...
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Published in: ourNHSOur NHS is being dismantled for transnational corporations
As a key part of the EU-US trade deal currently being fleshed out, the Conservatives are making good on a decades...
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Published in: Shine A LightGoing private? What happened when a private health company offered an NHS campaigner a job
This week, Alex Nunns, campaigner with Keep Our NHS Public, was headhunted for a job at private health firm Care UK....
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Published in: Shine A LightWhat the market takes from our NHS
Tax avoidance and high interest costs are diverting resources away from healthcare.
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Published in: Shine A Light‘We fight on to defend the NHS in England’
The coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill is enacted despite deep public unease and unprecedented opposition from...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBritain is not just ‘undergoing privatisation’, this is a modern enclosure movement
Cameron is leaving no stone unturned in his 'revolution' of the public sector. This is not about the privatisation...
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Published in: Shine A LightWill the private interests of peers swell the vote for England's health bill?
More than one in four Conservative peers - 62 out of the total of 216 - and many other members of the House of Lords...