Patient Access to GPs: No Credible Tory Plan
The Public Accounts Committee report on patients’ experience accessing general practice medicine says the Government is …
Damning indictment of the Tory approach on the NHS/Social Care
Committee of Public Accounts Summary of report on Integrating health and social care: Integration of health …
Speech to Unison’s conference
It is my pleasure to be here. As a Labour MP, a trade union member. …
Treat therapeutic abortion like any other medical procedure.
International Women’s Day seems a suitable time to publicize the campaign to decriminalize abortion in …
Key Recommendations for Labour Election Manifesto
The Socialist Health Association has been developing health policy for some months under the dedicated …
Being poor kills
– to improve public health the government must tackle inequality. Health policy must include a …
We should not dismiss STPs. They could have potential.
I feel passionately about the NHS. It is something we as a nation should …
A mental health strategy for the next five years
Mental health problems represent the largest single cause of disability in the UK. Mental illness …
Food poverty and food aid in 21st century UK: a view from anthropology
Exact figures may be disputed but there is little doubt that social inequality and poverty …
First Ten Years of Free Prescriptions in Wales
Wales was the first health service in the UK to abolish prescription charges in 2007. …
Attitudes to social security in Britain today
In his first budget as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond was notably silent on …
PFI: a case of national self-harming
The case against PFI grows stronger as the repayment costs rise, NHS finances deteriorate, and …