Protest against Palantir that produced a result!
On 3rd Sept 2022, Hackney KONP organised a protest against Palantir the US spy tech company likely to get a huge contract to run most of the operating system for the NHS. The Palantir CEO […]
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Fourth time lucky? Few believe that Health Secretary Therese Coffey can solve the NHS crisis
The new Prime Minister Liz Truss has this week appointed her friend and ally Therese Coffey as the Deputy Leader and Secretary for Health and Social Care, but how much do we really know about […]
YOUR DATA IS AT RISK: read how & why now
The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, introduced by Nadine Dorries, is being RUSHED through Parliament, with its second reading on 5th September. The speed suggests that this Bill is of considerable political importance to the Conservatives […]
The ‘winter crisis plan’ – why virtual wards won’t solve the NHS’s problems
‘Virtual wards will remain another example of how to justify underinvestment in hospital staff and services by promising resources for community care that then fail to materialise.’ Unevidenced policy that largely ignores the current crisis […]
First impressions of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Following the Government’s worrying consultation on data use, the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill has now been launched in Parliament by Nadine Dorries and is even more disturbing than expected. In essence, the Government […]
Review: NHS Under Siege
John Lister, Jacky Davis (eds.). The Merlin Press Limited, Dagenham, 2022 www.merlinpress.co.uk This book should be read by anyone interested in both defending and rebuilding the NHS and in addressing health inequity as a matter […]
Better the devil you know? This new Health Secretary is definitely one to watch
Steve Barclay is the new Health and Social Care Secretary in the Johnson Cabinet. NHS managers were quick to respond: A real nightmare, vindictive, arrogant, a bully, hostile to the NHS and all its works, […]
Johnson’s legacy: misconduct, death and NHS in crisis
by NHS Nurse Holly Johnston and Tom Griffiths, Keep Our NHS Public Prime minister Boris Johnson should have resigned a long time ago, but whoever in his party replaces him will be no better for […]
ITV ‘Bodies of evidence: the butcher surgeon’
‘Bodies of evidence: the butcher surgeon’ shows us why a lack of oversight in private healthcare leaves patients open to dangerous practices ITV’s Bodies of Evidence programme last week highlighted a massive betrayal of trust […]
BBC’s Panorama ‘Undercover: Britain’s biggest GP chain’ showed us why big business has no place in our GP services
See ‘Undercover: Britain’s biggest GP chain’. On 13 June, Panorama was devoted to an investigation of the US company Centene, now the largest provider of General Practitioner services in the UK (next to the NHS) […]