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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat England can learn from the US - health privatisation and AIDS activismHealth 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 dealIntroducing 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...
