The best and worst responses to the coronavirus crisis
In just a few short, weeks we have seen drastic and intense changes in how our society operates. While tens of thousands have been hospitalised, the very elements of our…
US health corporations are already embedded in the NHS. The question is how to get them out.
The National Health Action Party was founded by Dr Clive Peedell and Dr Richard Taylor in 2012 in response to the Coalition government’s disastrous Health and Social Care Act which…
BREAKING: Greens launch manifesto with 10 bills for radical change
With the General Election campaign now fully underway, the Green Party of England and Wales will today launch its manifesto with a set of 10 radical proposals. The party will announce…
Healthcare should be free from markets, outsourcing and austerity
Health policy has been devolved to the Scottish Parliament since 1999 with the exception of a few areas such as drug licensing. Since then, there has been a significant divergence…
Northern Ireland’s healthcare needs Nye Bevan’s principles
Although Northern Ireland subscribed almost immediately post-War to the Bevan principles of a Health Service accessible by all regardless of means, it is an interesting quirk that officially Northern Ireland…
Green Party writes to Hunt over trans healthcare
Jonathan Bartley and Aimee Challenor outside the Department of Health | Photo: The Green Party This afternoon Jonathan Bartley and I took a letter to the Department of Health…
Greens support junior doctors on strike
Photo: Green Party Junior doctors across England are on strike today over a new pay and working hours contract imposed by the government — the first strike by hospital doctors in 40 years.…
NHS Surcharge for Migrants: the latest slide on the slippery slope to full American-style privatisation
Image: Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants. When news was announced last week that the government was introducing a new NHS surcharge for incoming migrants, I saw several friends posting…
Mutually Assured Destruction: The Future of the NHS
Creative Commons In August 2014, as the first experiment of a totally privatised NHS hospital was grinding to a disastrous end, the Coalition quietly initiated the first phase of their…
NHS strike postponed
UNISON members on strike at Salford Royal hospital (Matt Hanley) With less than 48 hours before today's planned 12 hour nationwide strike of NHS nurses, porters, cleaners, ambulance staff, secretaries…