Campaigners are pushing moves to challenge the secrecy and broken model of drug pricing. But will governments have the political will to back them, and make life-saving medicines affordable for all?
Both a hard Tory Brexit or a soft Labour one would worsen every aspect of the NHS crisis, from staffing to drug prices to privatisation. Why aren't we talking about this more?
The Royal College of Physicians have today joined with other Royal Colleges to call on the government to suspend upfront charging of overseas visitors within the NHS, calling them a "concerning barrier to care".
Corporate think tanks hope their bravely unthinkable suggestions to "fix" (or kill) the NHS are on politicians' summer reading lists. But why are far more popular and evidenced solutions - like reversing privatisation - so unthinkable to the political class?
A new online think tank, the Centre for Health and the Public Interest, has just launched. It aims to make the practical and intellectual case for a radical change of course from the market solutions currently proffered to the English NHS.
A&E departments across London are already overstretched - but nearly half of them are now threatened with closures, and undermined by privatisation. This Saturday, hospital campaigners from across London join up to march on Downing Street.
