Will Wes Streeting listen to health campaigners?
The views of Irwin Nash on the government’s recently launched NHS consultation Many campaigners will react with despair and disappointment … Read more
NHS reform
Darzi rides again
Lord Darzi may be best known as a high-flying surgeon, but he is also quite keen on knocking out reports … Read more
Tough choices for NHS saddled with local deficits
Lord Darzi has delivered a stark report on the NHS’s unprecedented problems. The Prime Minister responded with a commitment to producing a … Read more
Wes Streeting turns to the ‘usual suspects’: why no involvement of trade unions and patients?
When Tony Blair’s government took office in 1997, every one of the newly-appointed health ministers who had worked with campaigners … Read more
Now Labour is in, press for action to rescue the NHS
With 412 Labour MPs and a huge majority in the House of Commons, Keir Starmer’s Labour government clearly now has … Read more
Labour’s strong mandate to fix “broken” NHS
After 14 long years of real-terms cuts in funding alongside increased pressures on the NHS, its 76th birthday (July 5) saw … Read more
Restoring the People’s NHS: Tony O’Sullivan
In the countdown to this year’s General Election, one thing is evident: the NHS will be one of the most … Read more
John Puntis: In defence of the NHS
The NHS is attacked on a variety of spurious grounds. Negative statements often being repeated uncritically and ad nauseam by … Read more
Why is charging to see a GP or attend A&E a bad idea?
Whenever reform of the NHS is discussed the possibility that payments to visit your GP or attend A&E is nearly … Read more
Does it help the NHS if richer people ‘go private’?
The NHS was set up to be a universal health service, covering the whole population, providing care according to clinical … Read more