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1. Sicko UK: Repurposing the NHS to a for-profit US-style managed care

   Healthcare Bob Gill Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Privatisation National Health Service (NHS ... ) Neoliberalism and neoliberal capitalism Sicko On the 73rd birthday of the National Health Service (NHS) the ... majority of citizens, including NHS staff, remain unaware of how it has been fundamentally repurposed. ...

2. Britain: Mass rallies to defend the NHS

   Healthcare National Health Service (NHS) Thousands of health workers and members of the public ... public National Health Service, the Morning Star Online said that day. The NHS in Crisis: Fix it Now ... demonstration is in demand of more beds, more staff and more funds for our NHS. “We need to reserve the tide of ...

3. BRITAIN: Privatisation by stealth causes NHS cash crisis

   Alex Miller The National Health Service (NHS) is facing its biggest financial crisis since its ... inception in 1948. It is estimated that NHS Trusts throughout England have a total deficit of up to £800 ... sector inefficiency and as the result of pay increases won by NHS staff. Yet Martin McIvor spelled out in ...

4. Britain: NHS staff plan strike to save pensions

   pension plans, the Morning Star said on October 14. NHS workers' union GMB has condemned the ... government's plans. NHS national officer Rehana Azam said health minister Andrew Lansley “is ignoring the very ... strong arguments we made and turning his back on the anger and frustration felt by NHS staff”. "We ...

5. Blog: The COVID-19 crisis in Europe

   renters.” LRU organiser Aaron, who is an NHS worker but whose total household income decreased severel ... “cement” privatisation into the NHS supply chain. Serco is among several firms being paid to recruit, coach ... hoped it would further embed private firms in the NHS supply chain. In an email to staff, Mr Soames ...

6. Britain: Wave of strike action continues ahead of Budget day

   Service (NHS) cost of living Wages Anti-privatisation Ahead of a significant day of industrial action ...

7. Strike wave continues to build across Britain

   British strikes National Health Service (NHS) education unions transport unions London About half ... where understaffing and overwork mean services are failing, especially in the NHS, and existing laws are ...

8. 10 new albums that will inspire you to fight

   Service (NHS) workers. A week earlier, NHS doctor and protest musician Nishant Joshi released ... from East Africa, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, claimed to be battling ballooning NHS waiting lists, all ...

9. The demise of British primary healthcare

   Healthcare Bob Gill National Health Service (NHS) Neoliberalism and neoliberal capitalism ... Britain’s primary care system has been the foundation of the National Health Service (NHS). Current spending ... on primary care is less than a tenth of the total cost of the NHS yet accounts for 90% of all patient ...

10. New series shows the reality of hospital cost-cutting

    a British National Health Service (NHS) obstetrics and gynaecology hospital resident then registrar from ... in the British NHS, but neoliberal funding cuts are similarly disastrous for Australian health ... Adam Kay, coping with impossible conditions in the cash-strapped British NHS. Image supplied Culture ...

11. Britain: Health and Care Bill – integration or imperialism?

    Healthcare Stewart Player Bob Gill National Health Service (NHS) One of the recent roles of ... “Americanisation” of the English NHS were wildly overstated and in danger of “creating a climate that risks blocking ... its influence capable of surprising even seasoned NHS watchers. The Health and Care Bill making its ...

12. Britain: New king won’t solve deep crisis

    national and local government as well as workers in the National Health Service (NHS). It will be the most ... NHS. Without huge recruitment of nurses and doctors and billions of pounds of investment, ... "fixing" the NHS will really mean privatisation and a two-tier health service. Thousands of middle class ...

13. Britain: Thousands declare ‘enough is enough!’

    people, starting by reversing the recent 1.25% hike to National Insurance, which funds the NHS and other ...

14. Catastrophic dereliction of duty: Britain’s coronavirus response

    Service (NHS) A rational person would question why Britain has fared so badly in the COVID-19 pandemic. It ... a National Health Service (NHS) arising from the ashes of World War II. This forms the central pillar of the ... practitioner and NHS doctor for close to 27 years, we are shocked, yet not surprised. Shredding the fabric of ...

15. Freedom from fear: John Pilger on coronavirus, Assange, propaganda and human rights

    Assange National Health Service (NHS) China World-renowned journalist and filmmaker John Pilger speaks to ... prisoner of the most ruthless forces, whose goal is to break him. In your film  The Dirty War on the NHS ... Tories and New Labour. What’s the link between the coronavirus and the fragmentation of the NHS? That the ...

16. Scotland: British court blocks independence referendum

    facing our country, from rising bills to the crisis in our NHS.” Before the ruling, British Labour leader ...

17. Britain: Junior doctors strike to save public health system

    Britain's public National Health System (NHS). As part of its bigger plan to run the NHS into the ground, ... contract would result in the NHS suffering a shortage of doctors. This is due to the proposed pay cut and ... removal of maximum hours safeguards resulting in many junior doctors leaving the NHS due to poor pay, ...

18. The crimes and connections of Jimmy Savile

    BBC, the National Health Service (NHS) and the police — protecting him from any consequences for his ...

19. John Pilger: Britain's class war on children

    children suffers like this. In making my recent film,  The Dirty War on the NHS, it was clear to me that ... and Johnson governments had devastated the vulnerable, including many NHS workers and their families. ... I interviewed one low-paid NHS worker who could not afford her rent and was forced to sleep in churches or on ...

20. Hip hop binman trashes British health secretary

    state-owned National Health Service (NHS). Even Margaret Thatcher steered clear of touching the NHS. Lansley’s ... (PCTs), the bodies that buy medical services for the NHS. He wants GPs to take on that work, without extra ... Midlands, saw that his girlfriend’s hopes of an NHS career were being dashed, he decided to give Lansley ...

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