Consultant David Oliver analyses the claims about spending, waste and inefficiency in healthcare and proposes a ten point plan to restore services to their 2010 level
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DHSC has sick and elderly in its sights – asking public to comment on two options, but option of retaining current system of free prescriptions from age 60 is not on table The government has the sick and frail in their sights. The Tories are getting ready to make sick elderly people – who, like […]
Damning words as Professor Philip Banfield says Labour has no clue how GPs or their referrals to specialists work – and aren’t willing to listen or learn Professor Philip Banfield, the chair of the British Medical Association (BMA) has publicly condemned not just the stupidity of Wes Streeting – and by extension his boss Keir […]
People are already criticised for turning up at GPs and A&E when they may not need to – a false accusation in many cases, used by politicians to excuse the interminable waits caused by intentional fragmentation, privatisation and underfunding. Now Keir Starmer wants to open the floodgates by allowing people to refer themselves to specialists […]
Therese Coffey mentioned challenging times twice in the Commons debate on Thursday last. That the times are so challenging is, in large part, a result of the government itself, which, having, entirely unnecessarily, denuded the state of investment since 2010, is creating the vast majority of the ongoing and everyday challenges for its own people.... Read more
Penny Pepper pens an open letter to her Conservative MP, explaining why the NHS crisis is personal and political for those 'living in the real world'
Extra resources put in to cope halved waits, showing again that NHS crisis is Tory-created Statistics gathered during strike action by paramedics have made a mockery of the Tories’ transparently ideological attack on workers’ right to strike. While Rishi Sunak and his partners in crime claim their plan to force unions to maintain services during […]
GPs have faced a barrage of attacks in the press and briefings from government over the pandemic. It's taking its toll.
Sam Bright reports on the influence held by a parliamentary lobbying group backed by private health interests
Opponents of free universal healthcare hope the current crisis will open the door to killing off the NHS altogether, writes Adam Bienkov