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  • WHAT’S HAPPENING?
    • ICBs aim for £8bn savings, risking NHS staff and delays
    • Enough funding for the NHS?
    • Now Labour is in, press for action to rescue the NHS
    • Battles rage over physician associates
    • Criticism of the long-term workforce plan begins to emerge
    • Key points of the 2023 long-term workforce plan
    • The damaging effects of underfunding
    • Virtual Wards
    • Patient safety: Warnings from all sides
    • Integrated Care Organisations
    • The views of NHS staff
  • WHY?
    • Why are local NHS leaders running out of funds?
    • Staff Shortages
    • International comparison
  • WHAT’S THE CURE?
    • Ten reasons why the NHS needs longterm rises in funding
    • In defence of the NHS
    • Would European style social health insurance be the answer to the problems of the NHS?
    • What’s so good about the NHS?
    • Can the NHS survive in the long-term?
  • WHAT CAN I DO?
    • Find a local campaign group
    • Tell us your experiences of underfunding
    • Donate
  • ARTICLES
    • The Lowdown – home to campaigning articles on the NHS
    • Restoring the People’s NHS
    • BMJ Commission’s call to action to relaunch the NHS
    • Emergency care summit report
    • Recent reports
    • Delays to treatment
    • Staff shortages
    • Integrated Care Systems
    • Reduction in training
    • Rationing
    • Cuts to services
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Privatisation

NHS privatisation: People with learning disabilities to become a ‘commodity’ in a profit-fillled healthcare industry, finds study

People with learning disabilities have been turned into commodities in a healthcare industry driven by profits and generating millions of … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags NHS reform, Privatisation

NHS staffing agency moves towards privatisation

The government is pressing ahead with the sale of NHS Professionals, the state-owned agency that manages more than 90,000 doctors, … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags NHS reform, NHS staff, Privatisation, recruitment

Doctors ‘horrified’ by STP staff costs

A vast cohort of operations managers, communications executives, administrators and financial analysts has been created to drive forward controversial STPs … Read more

Categories STPs Tags BMA, National STP, NHS reform, Privatisation, recruitment, STPs

Jeremy Hunt accused of cover up and conflict of interest in lost NHS patients records scandal

In extraordinary scenes in the House of Commons today, the Health Secretary was accused of a cover up and conflict … Read more

Categories Quality of care Tags Department of Health, Jeremy Hunt, Privatisation, safety

Disabled patients ‘relying on crowdfunding’ for wheelchairs

Disabled patients are increasingly having to rely on crowdfunding to pay for wheelchairs, a leading doctor has warned. Cuts in … Read more

Categories NHS spending Tags cuts to services, postcode lottery, Privatisation, underfunding

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is selling off NHS firm which saves taxpayer £70m a year

The government is quietly privatising an NHS staffing agency that manages more than 90,000 people and saves the taxpayer millions. … Read more

Categories Staffing Tags Department of Health, Jeremy Hunt, Privatisation

NHS patients offered the chance to see a GP weeks earlier – if they pay

NHS patients are being offered the chance to jump the queue to see a GP weeks earlier – if they … Read more

Categories Rationing, Treatment delays Tags GPs, Privatisation, treatment delays

The parties’ pledges on health and social care

Ahead of the general election, we summarise the main pledges made by the three main parties on health and social … Read more

Categories NHS spending, Quality of care, Social Care, Staffing Tags Academic reports, hospitals, Kings Fund, NHS staff, nurses, Privatisation, social care, waiting lists, waiting times

Terrifyingly, the NHS is about to get some of its money from hedge funds – this will be quantum leap in privatisation

Privatisation has long been held up as a panacea to the NHS’s problems. The first ‘PFI’ (Private Finance Initiative) schemes … Read more

Categories NHS spending, Quality of care, Rationing Tags NHS reform, Privatisation, underfunding

NHS campaigners head for London

NHS supporters from south Warwickshire took their objections to privatisation to the streets of London. Members of South Warwickshire Keep … Read more

Categories STPs Tags cuts to services, Privatisation, STP 18
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  • HOME
  • WHAT’S HAPPENING?
    • ICBs aim for £8bn savings, risking NHS staff and delays
    • Enough funding for the NHS?
    • Now Labour is in, press for action to rescue the NHS
    • Battles rage over physician associates
    • Criticism of the long-term workforce plan begins to emerge
    • Key points of the 2023 long-term workforce plan
    • The damaging effects of underfunding
    • Virtual Wards
    • Patient safety: Warnings from all sides
    • Integrated Care Organisations
    • The views of NHS staff
  • WHY?
    • Why are local NHS leaders running out of funds?
    • Staff Shortages
    • International comparison
  • WHAT’S THE CURE?
    • Ten reasons why the NHS needs longterm rises in funding
    • In defence of the NHS
    • Would European style social health insurance be the answer to the problems of the NHS?
    • What’s so good about the NHS?
    • Can the NHS survive in the long-term?
  • WHAT CAN I DO?
    • Find a local campaign group
    • Tell us your experiences of underfunding
    • Donate
  • ARTICLES
    • The Lowdown – home to campaigning articles on the NHS
    • Restoring the People’s NHS
    • BMJ Commission’s call to action to relaunch the NHS
    • Emergency care summit report
    • Recent reports
    • Delays to treatment
    • Staff shortages
    • Integrated Care Systems
    • Reduction in training
    • Rationing
    • Cuts to services
  • DONATE