Centene: Undemocratic takeover of GP services
This is Trowbridge surgery in Hackney Wick. It is one of 11 GP surgeries in NE London and 49 across London that have just been sold to Operose, a subsidiary of Centene, which is a […]
Integrated Care Systems
2021 NHS White Paper: government seizes on the pandemic as an opportunity
In the UK, a White Paper is the way government presents policy preferences before it introduces legislation. It is also a way of testing public opinion on controversial policy issues. The recent White Paper ‘Integration […]
Government used crisis to increase privatisation – NHS white paper will endorse
Boris Johnson seeks to ‘take back control of the NHS’ – full scale alert The leaked draft of the forthcoming government white paper on the NHS has been interpreted, notably by the Times and Hugh […]
Dangerous NHS restructuring to go ahead despite Covid
It has never been clearer than during this pandemic just how important the NHS is to the health and safety of the public. Yet the NHS was left to face the Covid pandemic already severely […]