Rationing Healthcare

Child Poverty 8 November 2024
Budget – you can’t eat gold! 28 October 2024
Mental health strike for patients 27 October 2024
Wes Streeting on Physician Associates 1 October 2024
Labour Women’s Conference 30 September 2024
Labour Conference 2024 27 September 2024
Labour Conference motion: Replacing Qualified Doctors 3 September 2024
Gaza: How much death is enough? 12 July 2024
Privatisation 8 July 2024
In Place of Trauma 2 July 2024
John McDonnell 1 July 2024
Tahir Ali 1 July 2024
Mary Kelly Foy 1 July 2024
Ian Byrne 1 July 2024
Clive Lewis 30 June 2024
Kate Osamor 30 June 2024
Richard Burgon 30 June 2024
Zarah Sultana 30 June 2024
Windrush and the NHS 27 June 2024
Steve Witherden 26 June 2024
Weaponising Health 21 June 2024
Kim Johnson 16 June 2024
Kate Osbourne 15 June 2024
Manifesto 13 June 2024
Apsana Begum 7 June 2024
Diane Abbott 29 May 2024
Faiza Shaheen 27 May 2024
National Support & Care Service Wales — progress 23 May 2024
General Election 4 July 2024 23 May 2024
Maternity Report highlights tragedy. 13 May 2024
SHA nomination for NPF 10 May 2024
Physician Assistants 6 March 2024
Market testing NHS Eye Care 30 January 2024
Health & Care Data Wales 24 January 2024
NHS nostalgia? 23 January 2024
Doctors in Unite on IPPR paper 4 January 2024
2023 end of year SHA Officers’ report 2 January 2024
Gaza 26 October 2023
SHA endorsement when standing for office 5 September 2023
LabConf ’23 Report back 30 August 2023
Why We are Striking for Fair Pay 22 August 2023
In Place of Profit 11 August 2023
Labour’s NHS plans – 2 views 6 August 2023
Labour’s Manifesto 12 July 2023
NHS 75 Conference – Sally Ruane 12 July 2023
NHS 75 Durham Miners’ Gala 3 July 2023
NHS75 Conference 1st July 23 June 2023
SHA on abortion rights 23 June 2023
Drakeford promises most radical days ahead 12 June 2023
The NHS – a shining jewel of social solidarity 9 June 2023
22 May: Labour on NHS crisis. 22 May 2023
Cancer and Dementia care. 12 May 2023
Wes Streeting’s talk to the King’s Fund. 21 April 2023
Struggle for the nation’s health 28 March 2023
Women’s lives before the NHS 28 March 2023
Opening the market – NHS Wales? 19 March 2023
SHA Central Council meets 25 March 11 March 2023
In response to Keir Starmer 30 January 2023
Labour Party Policy Forum UPDATE – Josh Harcup. 27 January 2023
Forced expulsions to Rwanda 12 January 2023
SHA response to use of private health companies 11 January 2023
SHA AGM 2023 6 January 2023
SHA Campaign materials 6 January 2023
SHA backs calls for benefit related death and harm publication 18 November 2022
SHA response to Nov 2022 Autumn Statement 17 November 2022
Pharmacists’ union signs joint letter to government on prescription charge increase proposal 11 November 2022
Official COVID19 Public Inquiry 4 October 2022
Modernising planned care & reducing waiting lists in Wales. 1 October 2022
Doctors in Unite call for a National Occupational Health Service. 11 September 2022
In the shadow of Roe Versus Wade, now is the time to campaign for decriminalisation of abortion services in the UK 10 September 2022
Potential sales of Boots and LloydsPharmacies significant for NHS Primary Care sector 1 September 2022
Doctors in Unite Proposals for a Radical New Vision for Primary Care and Public Health 10 August 2022
SHA Cymru Officers: MODERNISING PLANNED CARE AND REDUCING WAITING LISTS IN WALES 14 June 2022
Covid 19 Call to Royal Colleges. 2 January 2022
THE WHITE PAPER – RE-HASHING THE GLOSSY BROCHURE WITH ZERO CHANGE 14 December 2021
GENERAL PRACTICE TOTTERING ON THE BRINK 19 October 2021
DOCTORS IN UNITE CALL FOR A NATIONAL OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE. 14 October 2021
Review of ‘A Radical Practice in Liverpool: the rise, fall and rise of the Princes Park Health centre’ Katy Gardner and Susanna Graham-Jones. 2 August 2021
Susanna Mitchell – A Personal Tribute by Roy Trevelion 28 July 2021
TWO CONTRASTING CAMPAIGNS FOR REFORM OF SOCIAL CARE – SECTOR LEADERS AND DISABLED PEOPLE 19 July 2021
The Battle For Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs) in Residential Buildings By Georgie Hulme (Co-Founder – CLADDAG), member of SHA, Manchester. 7 July 2021
WELSH SOCIAL CARE PRIORITIES. 25 June 2021
THE ‘1948 MOMENT’ TO MAKE INDEPENDENT LIVING THE VISION FOR SOCIAL CARE 7 June 2021
CENTENE: THE REAL AGENDA – WHAT TO EXPECT 2 June 2021
REBALANCING SOCIAL CARE IN WALES — Response to Welsh Government White Paper on Social Care. 17 May 2021
SIMON STEVENS – THE LONG VIEW 14 May 2021
CENTENE: THE REAL AGENDA 10 May 2021
BEWARE OF A TROJAN HORSE PRIVATISATION OF GENERAL PRACTICE 16 April 2021
THE FEELEY REVIEW OF SOCIAL CARE IN SCOTLAND 17 March 2021
CROI 2021: Community call highlights CROI 6-month pay wall rather than usual open access 11 March 2021
Government response to Public Consultation on ICSs 9 March 2021
Why it matters if General Practice is run as a big business? 5 March 2021
“Safeguarding Young Trans People; The Real Issues!” 5 March 2021
Unite considers industrial action after government’s ‘indecent proposal’ of one per cent pay rise for NHS staff 5 March 2021
Major speech on coronavirus by Justin Madders 23 February 2021
Realistic hope for a Social Care system driven by Human Rights from Scotland 19 February 2021
Launch and Crowdfunder for KONP’s People’s COVID Inquiry 5 February 2021
Social Market Stability in Wales — Consultation Response SHA-Cymru 3 February 2021
A thousand little ships: PDA calls for community pharmacists to administer second doses of the Astra Zeneca vaccine 1 February 2021
Post-Brexit trade agreements and the NHS 31 January 2021
A WELSH BENEFITS SYSTEM MAKES SENSE 25 January 2021
MAKING INDEPENDENT LIVING THE DRIVING VISION FOR SOCIAL CARE 16 January 2021
Are animal products in the COVID vaccines? Are they Halal? 12 January 2021
NHSE/I consultation 9 January 2021
The Marketisation and Privatisation of the NHS 8 January 2021
SHA’s response to NHSE’s consultation on putting ICSs on a statutory footing 7 January 2021
This is a statement released by Doctors in Unite. SHA members supported the drafting. 5 January 2021
Q&A on COVID vaccines: are they safe and effective? 22 December 2020
Your views: building a strong, integrated care system across England 15 December 2020
NHS England pushes for “integration” … but not as we know it 15 December 2020
THE CONTINUED DENIAL OF COUNCIL AND POLITICAL LEADERS 4 December 2020
Stop this deportation 1 December 2020
The Moonshot mistake 19 November 2020
EDUCATION AND COVID ADVICE == WALES 15 November 2020
The Tories are attempting something even Thatcher and austerity could not achieve 10 November 2020
Our NHS in Crisis 10 November 2020
SHA Cymru statement in support of the First Minister and Welsh Government 6 November 2020
Update from Labour Team North West 5 November 2020
Asymptomatic Covid-19 screening in Liverpool 5 November 2020
PDA member survey shows prescription charges in England regularly prevent patients from receiving their medicines 5 November 2020
Biomedical scientists carrying out Covid-19 tests at Lancashire NHS trust ‘short-changed’ by £7,000-a-year 2 November 2020
Our NHS in Crisis Issue: 110 2 November 2020
HCT monthly news bulletin – November 2020 2 November 2020
Integrated Care Systems: 1 November 2020
THE CASE FOR SOCIAL CARE REFORM. 27 October 2020
Tory dependency argument and free school meals 27 October 2020
Human Rights Ignored During Pandemic 19 October 2020
A great launch of the joint SHA/KONP social care campaign 13 October 2020
Command and Control Management: 9 October 2020
Jeremy Hunt, the incompetent ideologue 9 October 2020
ASSESSING THE VIABILITY OF THE SOCIAL CARE SECTOR — Response to Welsh Government Proposals 7 October 2020
Doctors in Unite policy statement on a National Care Service. 5 October 2020
Suggestions For Improving Communication Between Branches And Central Council 1 October 2020
Launch of the joint SHA/KONP campaign to reshape social care in England 24 September 2020
WALES — HOW SUSTAINABLE IS OUR CARE SERVICE ?? 24 September 2020
Grenfell Inquiry: Industry exploited lax building regulations to sell flammable cladding 23 September 2020
Stop private sector outsourcing, as NHS laboratories ‘sidelined’ for Covid-19 testing, says Unite 16 September 2020
A Scottish Care Service 4 September 2020
Over 70 health organisations unite to raise serious concerns with Government about plans to reorganise the public health system 2 September 2020
A Scalpel or a Butcher’s Knife to our Public Services —- and to the UK? 25 August 2020
Debates in the SHA 25 August 2020
Joint response to the announcement of the National Institute for Health Protection and the future of public health 18 August 2020
THE FAILED LEADERSHIP OF SOCIAL CARE, BANKRUPT OF IDEAS 18 August 2020
Plans to “scrap” Public Health England: A Socialist Health Association Response 18 August 2020
Public Health England is being used as a scapegoat for government’s Covid-19 failings, says Unite 17 August 2020
Why the UK failed the pandemic test 3 August 2020
Pay is ‘elephant in the room’, says Unite, as new NHS England People Plan launched 30 July 2020
HIV i-Base publish the sixth COVID-19 supplement to HTB 30 July 2020
Firefighters and control staff offered 2% pay increase 29 July 2020
Unite renews call for pandemic public inquiry, following MPs’ report into untested patients discharged to care homes 29 July 2020
Anger over NHS pay sparks Downing Street march tomorrow 28 July 2020
SHA COVID-19 Blog 20 27 July 2020
Durham health visitor and school nurse job losses ‘incomprehensible’ with Covid-19 still prevalent, says Unite 24 July 2020
More people need to be encouraged to take up routine vaccinations as we recover from Covid-19, BMA warns 24 July 2020
TEST, TRACE AND PROTECT IN WALES; A PUBLIC SERVICE RESPONSE TO COVID-19 21 July 2020
SECURING A SOCIALLY JUST SYSTEM OF SOCIAL CARE 21 July 2020
SHA COVID-19 Blog 19 20 July 2020
AVAC and TAG Statement on Ethical Conduct of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Challenge Studies 18 July 2020
Privatisation Protest at St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester 15 July 2020
SHA COVID-19 Blog 18 13 July 2020
COVID-19: BAME communities living with HIV and a short interview with Dr Ameen Kamlana 12 July 2020
Letter to Matt Hancock on profound concern over £5m cut to PrEP in England 8 July 2020
SHA COVID-19 Blog 17 6 July 2020
Grenfell Tower Inquiry: FBU calls for those responsible to be held accountable 6 July 2020
THANKS AND THOUGHTS ON NHS BIRTHDAY – PAY CAREWORKERS THE LIVING WAGE 6 July 2020
BROMLEY COUNCIL AND HIV – THE FIGHT FOR SOCIAL SERVICES 1 July 2020
HIV and COVID-19: new publication 1 July 2020
SHA COVID-19 Blog 16 29 June 2020
£25m cut to London Fire Brigade “unthinkable”, Fire Brigades Union warns Mayor and Prime Minister 26 June 2020
SHA COVID-19 Blog 15 22 June 2020
Doctors in Unite — Crush Covid 22 June 2020
SHA Briefing – Primary Care 22 June 2020
Lets not forget prevention (yet again) or measles and flu may come to bite us 21 June 2020
SHA Cymru Wales: Response to Welsh Labour’s Stage Two Consultation paper on health and social care. 17 June 2020
SHA POLICY ON ADULT SOCIAL CARE AND CARERS 16 June 2020
SHA COVID-19 Blog 14 15 June 2020
Grenfell anniversary: Fire Brigades Union “will not accept another year of inaction” 15 June 2020
FRONTLINE QUESTIONS AND FEEDBACK FOR THE SHADOW TEAM 14 6 20 15 June 2020
CELEBRATION OF THE NHS AT 72 – 4th AND 5th JULY 15 June 2020
SHA COVID-19 Blog 13 8 June 2020
Disastrous UK RECOVERY study stops hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for COVID-19: more than 1100 deaths question ethics and safety overall 8 June 2020
Firefighters agree to continue coronavirus response 4 June 2020
‘Class and race’ biggest factors for victims of coronavirus, says Unite 2 June 2020
SHA COVID-19 Blog 12 1 June 2020
RON SINGER RIP 1 June 2020
SHA statement on reopening schools in England during the COVID19 pandemic 31 May 2020
Briefing Topic 3 – Test, Trace, outsourcing 30 May 2020
News from the Frontline 29.05.20 29 May 2020
Briefing Topic 2 – Inequalities 28 May 2020
Coronavirus: Join us at our first virtual public meeting featuring Jeremy Corbyn 27 May 2020
Briefing Topic 1 – BAME 27 May 2020
SHA COVID-19 Blog 11 25 May 2020
COVID-19 BASHH resources 23 May 2020
COVID-19: Firefighters called in to help stem spread of infection in care homes 22 May 2020
Thousands of care workers could be ineligible for £60,000 Covid-19 payment, warns Unite 22 May 2020
Defend Our NHS: Corona Confusion: lies, deceit, trickery and failure 22 May 2020
Johnson’s refusal to waive £400 charge for NHS migrant workers ‘mean-spirited’, says Unite 21 May 2020
To get our children back into education, but we need a locally managed approach and data. 21 May 2020
Covid-19: food and health inequalities and the future of public health nutrition 20 May 2020
News from the Frontline 20.05.20 20 May 2020
Developing a National Health System 20 May 2020
May 2020 issue: Sexual Health, Reproductive Health & HIV Policy eBulletin and COVID-19 19 May 2020
Studies reporting lack of benefit from hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 19 May 2020
SHA COVID-19 Blog 10 18 May 2020
FEEDBACK AND TOUGH QUESTIONS 17 5 2020 17 May 2020
Our NHS in Crisis 17 May 2020
News from the Frontline 17.05.20. 17 May 2020
Unions’ blueprint on NHS reopening is a ‘rocket booster’ for ministers to tackle PPE and testing crises, says Unite 15 May 2020
Treasury leak: Firefighters vow to fight any public sector real-terms pay cut 13 May 2020
Blanket DNACPRs are not the solution for panicked healthcare rationing 12 May 2020
Covid-19 and BAME deaths: A call for action 12 May 2020
Sexual and reproductive healthcare for women during COVID-19 – from FSRH 12 May 2020
SHA COVID-19 Blog 9 11 May 2020
Doctors in Unite: Statement on Exit from Lockdown 10 May 2020
UK HAS THE HIGHEST DEATH TOLL IN EUROPE – PUBLIC HEALTH IS A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH 7 May 2020
Plans by NHS bosses to create a super lab in north west ‘under the radar’ during coronavirus crisis attacked by Unite 7 May 2020
News from the Frontline 06.05.20 6 May 2020
Firefighters slam government and building owners as HCLG committee cladding survey highlights widespread safety failings 6 May 2020
UNITE THE UNION 6 May 2020
From new ultraviolet wavelengths to virucidal face masks: Could these new technologies help defeat coronavirus? 5 May 2020
SHA COVID-19 Blog 8 4 May 2020
News from the Frontline 01.05.20 1 May 2020
WELSH GOVERNMENT PROVIDES ADDITIONAL £500 PAYMENT FOR SOCIAL CARE WORKFORCE 1 May 2020
News from the Frontline 29.04.20 (2) 28 April 2020
News from the Frontline 29.04.20 (1) 28 April 2020
All COVID-19 key worker deaths must be recognised as work-related, union says 28 April 2020
SHA COVID-19 Blog 7 27 April 2020
Brutal cuts to fire and rescue services being rushed through during the pandemic, union says 27 April 2020
Sunday Times Response to Government 27 April 2020
Statement from the Socialist Health Association 27 April 2020
FRONTLINE EXPERIENCE AND TOUGH QUESTIONS 26 4 20 27 April 2020
WELSH STEPS TO EASE COVID-19 PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES – UPDATE 24 April 2020
DOCTORS IN UNITE SUPPORT PETITION FOR PROPER NHS FUNDING 24 April 2020
On the calculated death rates from coronavirus. 24 April 2020
News from the Front Line 21.04.20. 22 April 2020
Defend Our NHS: Test! Trace! PPE! 21 April 2020
WHO COVID-19 Database launches new search interface 20 April 2020
SHA COVID-19 Blog 6 20 April 2020
ROSIE COOPER MP CALLS FOR AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION INTO ALL NHS COVID-19 DEATHS 20 April 2020
Covid-19 Mutual Aid UK: Guide for Supporting Migrants During Coronavirus 20 April 2020
THREE WEEKS FOR REFLECTION – COVID 19 WALES 18 April 2020
Join the biggest citizen science project ever: the COVID19 symptom tracker 18 April 2020
Firefighters respond to extension of coronavirus testing 17 April 2020
Coronavirus: Firefighters now allowed to carry out antigen tests 16 April 2020
Unite statement on coronavirus – and its impact on paramedics and other NHS workers and social care staff 16 April 2020
QUESTIONS TO ASK THE SOS FOR HEALTH 15 April 2020
Potential treatments for COVID-19 could be manufactured for $1 a day or less 15 April 2020
PDA say zero tolerance needed in pharmacies to stop verbal abuse, intimidation, threats, racist, sexist and physical attacks. 15 April 2020
News From The Frontline 13.04.20. 13 April 2020
SHA COVID-19 blog 5 13 April 2020
3,000 fire and rescue personnel in coronavirus isolation as services pay the price for testing fiasco 13 April 2020
News From the Frontline 11 April 2020
Open letter to Sir Keir Starmer 10 April 2020
FIREFIGHTERS TO FIT FACE MASKS AND DELIVER VITAL PPE AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO NHS AND CARE STAFF 10 April 2020
Why it is important to include HIV status and HIV testing in managing COVID-19 10 April 2020
BHIVA message: HTB COVID-19 special issue: 27 March 9 April 2020
SHA COVID-19 Blog 4 6 April 2020
Food, Health and the Coronavirus Crisis 6 April 2020
A request from Jeremy Corbyn for Urgent Action on the Corona Virus crisis 3 April 2020
Unite statement on whistleblowing in the NHS during the coronavirus emergency 3 April 2020
PROTECT ALL FRONTLINE HEALTHCARE WORKERS 1 April 2020
Charity sector coronavirus financial support package urgently needed, says Unite 31 March 2020
Home-visiting health visitors and community nurses need PPE urgently, says Unite 31 March 2020
SHA COVID-19 Blog 3 31 March 2020
COVID-19 and the NHS—“a national scandal” 29 March 2020
SHA COVID-19 Blog 2 23 March 2020
Free car parking for NHS staff in England fighting coronavirus needed this week, says Unite 23 March 2020
PQs to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on contact tracing and testing 23 March 2020
Joint SHA, KONP and HCT petition – NHS Frontline staff make 6 key demands 21 March 2020
COVID-19: Fire and rescue services lose hundreds of firefighters to self-isolation, as union calls for priority testing 20 March 2020
OPEN LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER FROM THE SOCIALIST HEALTH ASSOCIATION 20 March 2020
Call for retired nurses and student nurses to join the fight against coronavirus 19 March 2020
Maternity Action response to Government guidance on COVID and self-isolation 17 March 2020
SHA COVID-19 Blog 1 17 March 2020
COVID-19: Firefighters should cease non-essential interactions with the public, union says 16 March 2020
SHA statement on the 2020 Budget 12 March 2020
Budget fails on flood response and fire safety, firefighters say 11 March 2020
CROI 2020: Special session on COVID-19 11 March 2020
COVID-19 Coronavirus: a Socialist Health Association response. 4 March 2020
SHA responds to Marmot Report on health equity in England 1 March 2020
MARCH AND RALLY AGAINST RACISM ON SATURDAY 21 MARCH 27 February 2020
Candidates statements for Leader and Deputy Leader election 2020 27 February 2020
In Open Letter, Wuhan Nurses Cry for Global Help 26 February 2020
Marmot Review 10 years on says health inequalities worse 25 February 2020
SOCIALIST HEALTH ASSOCIATION (SHA) POLICY ON MATERNITY CARE: 21 February 2020
NHS events in Wirral 11 February 2020
New post on Save Liverpool Women’s Hospital 8 February 2020
Socialist Health Association Ballot for the Leader and Deputy Leader of The Labour Party. 5 February 2020
SHA Scotland Meeting 21 January 2020
A HEALTHIER WALES — GOOD PROGRESS BUT GREATER URGENCY NEEDED 6 January 2020
2 papers from Jean Hardiman Smith 23 December 2019
Social Care 17 December 2019
Fire Brigades Union response to HMICFRS inspections Tranche 3 17 December 2019
Lincolnshire health visitors hail victory in pay grade dispute 5 December 2019
Scottish Labour Party Manifesto 2019 5 December 2019
Frimley NHS trust staff to strike for three more days over hived-off ‘tax avoiding’ company 5 December 2019
Brentford Travelodge fire: Fire Brigades Union comment 5 December 2019
Video on Health – ( this will change Hearts and Minds ) 2 December 2019
HOW COME WE DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT NHS SUBCOS? 4 November 2019
Support for North East Labour MP. 3 November 2019
Contributions at Labour Conference from our delegates, officers and CC members 20 October 2019
New laws to implement NHSE’s Long Term Plan 16 October 2019
Labour Party Conference fringe meeting 8 September 2019
UK HIV organisations call for urgent review of crisis in sexual health funding 2 September 2019
Book review 31 August 2019
Our People: The Great Yorkshire Conversation Part one 15 August 2019
‘The concept of health tourism for HIV treatment is an outdated myth. This suggestion is outrageous.’ 11 August 2019
SHA responds to Government publication ‘on the quiet’ of the Prevention Green Paper 26 July 2019
Social Care Motion 23 July 2019
SOCIALIST HEALTH ASSOCIATION (SHA) – Prevention and Public Health policy 11 July 2019
Reclaim Social Care 7 July 2019
REMEMBERING DR JULIAN TUDOR HART. 4 July 2019
The significance of the new GP contract in relation to the NHS Long Term Plan. 27 June 2019
WELSH GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES INCREASED GP TRAINING PLACES 25 June 2019
WELSH GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT IN GENERAL PRACTICE 25 June 2019
We need to talk about ‘Integrated Care’ in the NHS 15 June 2019
US-style healthcare is already with us 8 June 2019
NHS should not be ‘sacrificial lamb’ in any US/UK free trade deal, says Unite 5 June 2019
Tell us your views on our draft guidance for pharmacist prescribers 29 March 2019
Patient online consultation requests ‘mirror’ busiest surgery times 26 March 2019
Root And Branch Reform Of Social Care Needed 21 March 2019
Pharmacy technicians: an assessment of the current UK landscape, and proposals to develop community pharmacist and pharmacy technician roles and skill mix to meet the needs of the public 16 March 2019
Say no to the removal of local accountability in the NHS 13 March 2019
Overwhelming trade union recognition ballot result shows how out of touch Boots senior management are from their pharmacists. 12 March 2019
Social Enterprise in Health and Care 10 March 2019
PUTTING THE BEVAN PRINCIPLE IN PLACE .. 6 March 2019
Security staff at Southampton General Hospital lack correct protective equipment when attacked, says Unite 5 March 2019
Remembering Dr Mags Portman: pioneer activist for sexual health 25 February 2019
The Good Law Project has warned legal challenge to the DHSC over serious shortage medicines protocol 24 February 2019
Mental health and wellbeing of NHS staff is essential for our health service to thrive, BMA warns 21 February 2019
Lesbian and bi women at increased risk of being overweight 21 February 2019
Health & Care Professions Council ‘snub’, as it goes ahead with ‘extortionate’ fee hike 14 February 2019
JULIAN TUDOR HART — A TRIBUTE BY PROFESSOR GRAHAM WATT. 12 February 2019
A Cautionary Tale for our Times 9 February 2019
The World Transformed – Seven Minutes To Save The NHS 6 February 2019
Boots pharmacists voting to complete 8 year campaign for trade union recognition 31 January 2019
Caring for an ageing population – some Welsh perspectives 27 January 2019
HEALTH INEQUALITIES AND POVERTY’S CAUSES — GET IT STRAIGHT! 23 January 2019
NHS chiefs tell Theresa May it is time to curb privatisation: can it be true? 10 January 2019
Cash crisis continues to engulf NHS, says Unite, as long term plan launched 7 January 2019
Update on #Justice4NHS – Stage 5 – Court of Appeal 3 January 2019
NHS veiled cuts 3 January 2019
A Christmas message from MAP CEO Aimee Shalan 22 December 2018
SHA Central Council Minutes 10.11.18, London 20 December 2018
Phone app that could destroy our GP system 13 December 2018
Health Campaigns Together: December Newsletter 11 December 2018
HCT Follow-up meeting 5 December 2018
Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill update 4 December 2018
Vote for Cornwall’s children’s services to remain in-house applauded by Unite – press release 7 November 2018
SHA Policy Development Process; progress report 7 November 2018
Call for action for a democratically accountable, membership led SHA 6 November 2018
Minutes of SHA Central Council September 2018 6 November 2018
Chipping Barnet CLP – Contraceptive motion for AMM 2 November 2018
A NEW BLUEPRINT FOR PRIVATISING THE NHS – AND EVERYTHING ELSE NOT YET PRIVATISED 2 November 2018
Social Care Conference 17th Nov in Birmingham 31 October 2018
Under-pressure GPs are delivering ‘remarkable outcomes’ on cancer 30 October 2018
Justin Madders: No debate, no transparency – it’s the latest Tory NHS reforms 29 October 2018
999 Call for the NHS response to NHS ENgland’s Integrated Care Provider Contract consultation 18 October 2018
‘LEGISLATION WATCH WALES’ – October 2018 18 October 2018
Labour Party Conference 2018 – impressions 18 October 2018
Public lecture by Ray Tallis, November 8 18 October 2018
Section 75 18 October 2018
Calderdale and Kirklees 999 Call for the NHS 6 October 2018
A Bit of Fry and Laurie: Young Tory of the Year 5 October 2018
Petition from Dr Tony O’Sullivan 5 October 2018
Government funding cuts leave sexual health and HIV care at ‘breaking point’ 2 October 2018
Pensioners United 2 October 2018
Defend Our NHS public meeting video 29 September 2018
The World Transformed: Speech given by Jean Hardiman Smith SHA Secretary 29 September 2018
Judicial Review- URGENT 29 September 2018
Wirral’s NHS crisis: petition to save the walk-in centres 29 September 2018
Waiting for Jeremy’s speech at the LP conference 2018 in Liverpool. 29 September 2018
Alison Scouller speech 28 September 2018
Jessica Ormerod speech 27 September 2018
Dr Coral Jones of the SHA at the Labour Party Conference 2018 27 September 2018
Re: The Labour Party Conference 2018, Liverpool 26 September 2018
Consultation survey for the NHS England Integrated Care Provider Contracts – all answers are here 24 September 2018
As the dust settles from GDPR Day… 22 September 2018
Labour Party Conference 1947 22 September 2018
Saving the NHS: Planning Our Fightback 22 September 2018
SHA Policy process 20 September 2018
Labour Party Conference Preview: Health Fringe Events 10 September 2018
A Healthier Wales? Cymru Iachach? 30 August 2018
Is the government telling us the truth about GDPR and our NHS medical data? 25 August 2018
Medical Aid for Palestinians 21 August 2018
National Health Service (Co-Funding and Co-Payment) Bill 2017-19 19 August 2018
DEVELOPING NARRATIVES 19 August 2018
appeal against NHS England’s new Integrated Care Provider contract: by Jenny 19 August 2018
from Caroline Molloy 18 August 2018
Obesophobia – by George Monbiot 18 August 2018
Gender studies programs to be banned in Hungary by Zsuzsa Ferge 16 August 2018
BMA press release: Thursday 16 August 2018 BMA: 16 August 2018
on the Centre for Welfare Reform website 16 August 2018
NHS contracts and Richard Branson 14 August 2018
Mnum mnum mnum… the feeding frenzy 10 August 2018
‘Worst ever’ July A&E performance shows collapse in NHS standards under Theresa May 9 August 2018
Do Larger Physician Practices Provide Better Care at Lower Cost? 9 August 2018
BMA Press Release 8 August 2018
Consultation events on government plans for dismantling England’s NHS 6 August 2018
Radical Statistics (Radstats): 2019 Annual Conference & AGM 5 August 2018
Was Hancock’s Half Hour a barrel of laughs? 22 July 2018
A National Medical Service 17 July 2018
And why would Donald Trump want to put his little hands on the NHS anyway? 14 July 2018
My thoughts as a newly minted ‘wounded healer’ 3 July 2018
When the shop is not enough 29 June 2018
Patients are not ‘activated’ like washing machines, so shouldn’t we abolish the term ‘patent activation measure’? 24 June 2018
Fortune favours the brave 22 June 2018
Grenfell, Lessons Not Learned 14 June 2018
How to find money to save the NHS 14 June 2018
3 things you need to know about the Health and Social Care Select Committee’s report into Integrated Care 13 June 2018
Legislation, Privatisation and the NHS 13 June 2018
Labour’s Five Tests For The Government 13 June 2018
Safe Births for Babies and Mothers 12 June 2018
Winning the fight for our NHS 11 June 2018
A sea-change in abortion politics: 10 June 2018
Secretary’s Report 8 June 2018
Privatisation from the top-down: the corporate sector and decision-making 8 June 2018
We need to talk about ‘national plans’ for dementia 7 June 2018
Privatisation from the ground up: property sales and rich NHS Trusts 7 June 2018
A social policy on ageing 5 June 2018
Chair’s report 4 June 2018
Director’s Report 4 June 2018
You’re joking! Not another re-organisation? 3 June 2018
Proposed SHA policy on maternity services 2 June 2018
I finally understood what was meant by #Socks4Docs and it made all the difference 2 June 2018
TINA? Institutional Parameters for a New Deal for the NHS. 29 May 2018
Disabled people’s independence 28 May 2018
SOCIAL CARE PRIORITIES & OPTIONS IN WALES 26 May 2018
Minutes of Annual General Meeting 2018 25 May 2018
A GPs Voice 25 May 2018
Health in the local elections 24 May 2018
Will the official reason for ‘friendly communities’ please stand up? 23 May 2018
Are GPs referring too many patients? If so, why? 20 May 2018
Privatisation is a drug which could kill the NHS. The drug must be discontinued safely but urgently. 20 May 2018
The 70th anniversary of the NHS 19 May 2018
Courage: what does it really mean? 18 May 2018
Letter in response to news item on oral health 17 May 2018
Do dementia actions speak louder than words? 16 May 2018
Are hospitals safe places to be in? 16 May 2018
Universal, publicly-funded, and publicly-provided 16 May 2018
Jon Ashworth video talk at Socialist Health Association meeting 15 May 2018
Superbugs: are we returning to an era where bacteria are a major killer without a cure? 7 May 2018
Solidarity with community pharmacists 5 May 2018
The NHS doesn’t require reform – it needs a revolution 4 May 2018
70 years of fighting the 5 giants – lessons from the front line 30 April 2018
The Infant Socialist 29 April 2018
NHS Digital still sending patient information to Home Office immigration authorities 29 April 2018
How to renationalise the NHS for real 27 April 2018
A new framework for best HIV care: BHIVA Standards of Care revised and updated (2018) 26 April 2018
The labour of care: why we need an alternative political economy of social care 26 April 2018
The crisis in social care is connected to the gendered inadequacy of labour law 24 April 2018
Sexual and reproductive health sector call to strengthen the public health framework 19 April 2018
Personal Independence Payment – a fair deal for people with mental health problems? 18 April 2018
PLANNING IN THE WELSH NHS 16 April 2018
All Quiet About the Western Front – the Spring Offensive and the NHS fight back 15 April 2018
Don’t call me a customer, treat me like a human: rethinking relationships in public services 11 April 2018
A new social contract with the British people 9 April 2018
Speech by Alex Scott-Samuel 8 April 2018
Deep concerns about the ACO contract remain unaddressed 5 April 2018
Speech to SHA AGM 2018 4 April 2018
Leaving the NHS 4 April 2018
HYPOTHECATION — MAGIC BULLET, PLACEBO OR SOMETHING WORSE? 2 April 2018
FAQs for Paramedic Prescribing 31 March 2018
Critical actors and abortion law 30 March 2018
The Myths and Legends of Hypothecated National Insurance 29 March 2018
Jeremy Hunt calls for increase in tax to pay for Trident…. 27 March 2018
Attention to detail 27 March 2018
Speech at Labour North conference 26 March 2018
How poor is poor? The many dimensions of poverty in the UK 25 March 2018
Jeremy Hunt’s seven principles on adult social care reform: a new way forward or just rhetoric? 22 March 2018
What can England learn from the German approach to long-term care funding? 21 March 2018
We need to Hard Wire Mental Health into Policy Making 21 March 2018
Inaccurate and Misleading 20 March 2018
Using management consultancy brings inefficiency to the NHS 20 March 2018
Will Parliamentary Review Deliver Major Change in Wales? 18 March 2018
Winter Crisis? It’s a political crisis! 16 March 2018
The Power Threat Meaning Framework 15 March 2018
NHS treatment of private patients 14 March 2018
Labour’s direction for health care 13 March 2018
Empowering Patients with Information Technology 12 March 2018
View of a GP working in the “deep end” on role of GPs addressing health inequalities. 11 March 2018
Health inequalities – what to “do”. What are the actions or interventions we should implement? 10 March 2018
Reframing Health inequalities 9 March 2018
The Management Prison 1 8 March 2018
The Future of the NHS under a Labour Government 7 March 2018
Health and Social Care: Tackling health inequalities 5 March 2018
Socialist Health Association Accounts 2017 4 March 2018
NAO Damning Report on Failures to Reduce Emergency Admissions 4 March 2018
We Own It? 3 March 2018
Report Back from the Labour National Policy Forum 2 March 2018
DWP’s claims about Universal Credit 1 March 2018
Lies Dishonesty and Boards that Should Go 28 February 2018
Are cash-strapped hospitals walking into a trap that could cost the NHS its family silver? 27 February 2018
How socio-economic circumstances in childhood can influence your midlife health 26 February 2018
Data-sharing MoU between NHS Digital and Home Office: call for evidence by 30 March 24 February 2018
Have NHS leaders failed to “speak truth unto power”? 23 February 2018
50 years of failed NHS reorganisations? 22 February 2018
Equality Act 2010 (disability) and the Labour Party 21 February 2018
Adult social care: is privatisation irreversible? 15 February 2018
Policy options from North East SHA Seminar Jan 19th 2018 14 February 2018
What can Councillors do about health? 8 February 2018
Paying for over the counter items 7 February 2018
The People’s History of the NHS 6 February 2018
Urgent appeal for donations for NHS judicial review 4 February 2018
What can councillors do about health? 4 February 2018
Taking on The Legal Loan Sharks Of The Public Sector: The Fight For A Pfi Windfall Tax 3 February 2018
On Health Inequalities, Davos, and Deadly Neoliberalism 2 February 2018
Join the fight to save the NHS before it’s too late 1 February 2018
How and why the State’s purchasing power should be used to renegotiate PFI deals 1 February 2018
Joining up Health and Social Care 30 January 2018
Democratising the NHS 26 January 2018
Time to move on from the ‘love in’ with outsourcing and PFI – here’s how 25 January 2018
Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships Inquiry 23 January 2018
Back to the future? Prospects for Labour policy on a renationalised NHS 22 January 2018
What Carillion’s collapse tells us about public sector outsourcing 21 January 2018
Experiences of a Public Governor of a Foundation Trust 20 January 2018
Beyond the Backstreet 19 January 2018
Taking politics out of the NHS? Or constructing an elitist ‘consensus’? 18 January 2018
May’s Health tragedy 17 January 2018
Annual report 2017 15 January 2018
There Must Be Some Kind Of Way Out Of Here 14 January 2018
Minutes of SHA Central Council January 2018 13 January 2018
Doctor Poem from an earlier time 13 January 2018
An up-to-date account of economic inequalities in Britain since 2008 12 January 2018
In the bleak midwinter… 3 January 2018
The Alzira model 2 January 2018
Annual report 2017 1 January 2018
Public health priorities 31 December 2017
Ethnicity, social inequality and health 31 December 2017
Increase in mental health services and personnel 30 December 2017
Developing Labour health and care policies 30 December 2017
Halt unnecessary treatments to save the NHS billions 29 December 2017
PFI companies windfall from falling corporation tax rates 28 December 2017
Immediate Priorities for the NHS and future Labour Party policies for the NHS 23 December 2017
Universal Credit? Never heard of it 22 December 2017
Sustainable futures 20 December 2017
The centrality of poverty 19 December 2017
Prevention priorities 19 December 2017
What A Mess 18 December 2017
Privatised services are failing thousands of vulnerable addicts and alcoholics 17 December 2017
Britain’s social (in)security system: welfare conditionality and its impact on social citizenship 15 December 2017
When the US sneezes…health and social care futures in the UK 14 December 2017
Health Inequalities priorities for government 13 December 2017
Just STOP 12 December 2017
Toxic Privatisation Agenda Is Destroying The Soul Of Our NHS 11 December 2017
Divesting from Fossil Fuels: a public health action 8 December 2017
Give the Care Quality Commission more powers 7 December 2017
Accountable Care Systems: Moving at a pace and scale that doesn’t allow us to learn from the immediate past? 6 December 2017
Accountable Care Organisations – where is public engagement? 4 December 2017
Accountable Care Systems 3 December 2017
Public Health Priorities for Labour 2 December 2017
Minutes of SHA Central Council November 2017 1 December 2017
Physical activity, Air Pollution and Transport 1 December 2017
Converting the draft NHS Reinstatement Bill 2015 into Law 29 November 2017
SHA agreed Health Policy summary 28 November 2017
Back to the future? Reclaiming the social after Grenfell Tower 28 November 2017
Willingness to pay 27 November 2017
Sharon Hodgson’s speech on Public Health Priorities 27 November 2017
Why Nursing Pay Trade Off Could Be A Bitter Pill To Swallow 26 November 2017
The UK’s problem with long-term care: short-term thinking 25 November 2017
Faculty of Public Health top five public health priorities 24 November 2017
A Manifesto for Maternity 18 November 2017
Life expectancy and austerity 15 November 2017
Jon Ashworth’s speech at the Health Campaigns Together conference 13 November 2017
Rights and Wrongs of Rightcare 12 November 2017
The Slow Death of the NHS 9 November 2017
Working with Local Government 6 November 2017
Health and betting 5 November 2017
Payment by results 4 November 2017
A Resolution for your Labour Party 3 November 2017
The Integration of Healthcare and Social Care is a Failure 1 November 2017
The Failure of Competitive Tendering in Social Care 30 October 2017
NHS at 70 From Cradle to Grave 29 October 2017
Winter Crisis 28 October 2017
Recent figures on NHS performance across the UK are shocking 25 October 2017
No safety without liability 21 October 2017
Ambulance Response Programme: a socialist analysis 19 October 2017
Primary Care in the Ambulance Service 13 October 2017
Child obesity is a ‘national emergency’ 12 October 2017
WELSH HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE – PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW INTERIM REPORT 11 October 2017
Save Liverpool Women’s Hospital Update 10 October 2017
Now for some real politics 9 October 2017
The struggle for abortion rights is far from over 8 October 2017
Theresa May tells lies whilst people die 7 October 2017
Labour Has Committed To Renationalise Our NHS 6 October 2017
The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions 5 October 2017
The New Stupid Idea 4 October 2017
Sharon Hodgson speech to our fringe meeting 3 October 2017
Minutes of SHA Central Council September 2017 2 October 2017
Environment and Health in the Anthropocene 2 October 2017
Tackling the Mental Health Crisis – a National Strategy for Mental Health 1 October 2017
Living longer, but with more care needs 29 September 2017
How To Reform The NHS? Leave It Alone 27 September 2017
Labour party conference – NHS composite motion 25 September 2017
How we live and how we might live 24 September 2017
If our government won’t act to save our NHS this winter, this is what we must do 22 September 2017
It’s time for Labour to take rights seriously 21 September 2017
Fake News and the NHS 19 September 2017
We can’t improve the NHS if we conduct all debate about it using shibboleths not analysis 18 September 2017
10 ways we can reverse inequality in Britain 17 September 2017
Resolution for Labour women’s Conference 16 September 2017
Warning: the cost of Brexit could seriously damage your health service 15 September 2017
Sustainability & Transformation Plans in London 14 September 2017
Health Policy Recommendations for Conference and the Manifesto 14 September 2017
Why the next Labour Manifesto must pledge to legislate to reinstate the NHS 13 September 2017
NHS Governance 13 September 2017
Public Health And Wellbeing 12 September 2017
Policy On International Trade 11 September 2017
Enduring Aims And Principles 11 September 2017
Organisation Of Health And Care Services 10 September 2017
Towards A National Health And Care Service 9 September 2017
Primary And Community Care And The Myth Of The Demographic Time-Bomb 8 September 2017
Policy Proposal for Social Care 8 September 2017
Mental Health Policy 7 September 2017
Second-guessing your GP’s referral – NHS denials leave big questions unanswered 7 September 2017
New regulations on healthcare charging 6 September 2017
The Myth of the Cosy Co-Payment 5 September 2017
The NHS – winning the case for investment 4 September 2017
The Second NHS Reorganisation Is Well Under Way 3 September 2017
Taking on the Legal Loan Sharks of the Public Sector 31 August 2017
P.F.I. – Profiting From Infirmaries 30 August 2017
Accountable Care Organisations – What You Need to Know! 29 August 2017
Tory promises may well mean less for Southport Hospital 29 August 2017
Labour Party Health and Care Policy Commission Report 28 August 2017
Contemporary motion to Labour Party Conference 25 August 2017
TripAdvisor helps us choose hotels and restaurants – so why not where we end our days? 22 August 2017
BMA responds to UK position paper on Ireland border 17 August 2017
Breast cancer study in India shows how the country can avoid crisis 17 August 2017
Let’s streamline NHS bureaucracy and then leave it well alone 17 August 2017
UK expertise on health security could be a strong card in the Brexit negotiations – but few seem to realise 28 July 2017
Driving GPs into industrial action 26 July 2017
NHS Continuing Healthcare funding: anomalous, irregular, and often baffling 20 July 2017
Speech on child health 19 July 2017
Free abortions in England will not remove the fundamental injustice Northern Irish women suffer 17 July 2017
UK National Debt in historical perspective 15 July 2017
Accountable Care Systems – Flavour of the Month 12 July 2017
“Why should the people wait any longer?” 9 July 2017
NHS Bill 6 July 2017
Our NHS is 69 years old today – seven years of the Tories has left it in crisis 5 July 2017
The creeping privatisation of healthcare 4 July 2017
The Politics of Poverty 30 June 2017
Daily Mail attacks private medicine 29 June 2017
Legislation Watch Wales 28 June 2017
How can we ethically respond to rough sleeping? A four-point framework 27 June 2017
Why the Dilnot cap is not the answer to the social care funding crisis 26 June 2017
The Politics of Hope is Left-wing 21 June 2017
Austerity in essential public services is deadly. 19 June 2017
Minutes of SHA Central Council June 2017 18 June 2017
The populist radical right and the social democrats 15 June 2017
Power, health & wellbeing 14 June 2017
Democratic Unionist Party health policy 13 June 2017
UK Charter for Health 7 June 2017
Nothing About You Without You 5 June 2017
Who’s serious about the NHS? Reviewing the Labour and Conservative pledges 5 June 2017
The NHS has become simply a logo for a partially privatised system 4 June 2017
Social Care Funding: Understanding the reality behind the manifesto commitments 3 June 2017
Health and Care Services in Manchester 2 June 2017
Get the truth 30 May 2017
Are there plans to privatise the NHS? 29 May 2017
Health Reform in Revolutionary Russia 26 May 2017
The truth about Sustainability and Transformation Plans: 25 May 2017
Live Sustainably – Live Well 24 May 2017
Avoiding Another Failed NHS Experiment 23 May 2017
Mental Health policy proposals 22 May 2017
Free school meals 21 May 2017
Sustainability and Transformation Plans, and Accountable Care 20 May 2017
Saving the NHS and Social Care 19 May 2017
Inside the ‘new NHS’: where are the citizens? 19 May 2017
Conservative Manifesto on Health and Care 18 May 2017
Healthcare for all 16 May 2017
NHS in Wales escaped the cyber attack 16 May 2017
NHS decentralisation and its opponents 14 May 2017
Accountable Care Organisations 13 May 2017
Policy Proposal for Social Care 12 May 2017
Public Health and Wellbeing proposals 11 May 2017
Manifesto for a Fairer Society 10 May 2017
Let’s pledge to re-nationalise the NHS and prevent the cynical Tory plan to sell off Labour’s greatest achievement 9 May 2017
The People’s Plan for Greater Manchester 7 May 2017
Doctors of the World Safe Surgeries Toolkit 6 May 2017
What the 2017 Conservative manifesto should say about the NHS 28 April 2017
Patient Access to GPs: No Credible Tory Plan 27 April 2017
Damning indictment of the Tory approach on the NHS/Social Care 27 April 2017
Speech to Unison’s conference 27 April 2017
Treat therapeutic abortion like any other medical procedure. 26 April 2017
Key Recommendations for Labour Election Manifesto 25 April 2017
Being poor kills 24 April 2017
We should not dismiss STPs. They could have potential. 23 April 2017
A mental health strategy for the next five years 22 April 2017
Food poverty and food aid in 21st century UK: a view from anthropology 21 April 2017
First Ten Years of Free Prescriptions in Wales 20 April 2017
Attitudes to social security in Britain today 20 April 2017
PFI: a case of national self-harming 19 April 2017
Is the NHS really over? Just the facts 18 April 2017
Councils must reject Hunt’s sick health plan 17 April 2017
Sion Simon’s Health Manifesto 16 April 2017
Towards a Mental Health Pledge Card 15 April 2017
Let Them Eat Cake 14 April 2017
British Heart Foundation Statement 13 April 2017
Universal Basic Income: Is it the only cornerstone of a just society? 12 April 2017
Notes from Shadow Health minister Justin Madders 11 April 2017
The Market works – or just unprofessional? 9 April 2017
Citizen’s Basic Income: A brief introduction 7 April 2017
The Second NHS Reorganisation is Well Under Way 6 April 2017
House of Lords select committee on NHS sustainability 5 April 2017
NHS SUSTAINABILITY UNDER THREAT – LORDS COMMITTEE 5 April 2017
Tracing Campaigning through a ‘People’s History of the NHS’ 5 April 2017
Petitions and the NHS 4 April 2017
The truth about benefits sanctions 1 April 2017
Advertisments 31 March 2017
The Tories just aren’t taking the NHS seriously as a Brexit priority 31 March 2017
The fog of Brexit is engulfing the NHS. It’s up to Theresa May to provide clarity 30 March 2017
Accountable to Whom? 29 March 2017
Universal Basic Income: The Cornerstone of a Just Society? 28 March 2017
Jon Ashworth at Socialist Health Association AGM Sat 11 March 2017 27 March 2017
Minutes of SHA Central Council March 2017 26 March 2017
Towards a policy on Social Security 26 March 2017
Comprehensive Sickness Insurance – the legal loophole you have never heard of 24 March 2017
Tax on Illness: A guide to NHS Charges 21 March 2017
Mental Health Services 20 March 2017
Minutes of SHA AGM 2017 19 March 2017
Labour’s Health And Social Care consultation 2017 19 March 2017
Inequality, driving people to suicide 18 March 2017
After massive March 4 Our NHS protest – show your support 17 March 2017
Cash for Diagnoses 17 March 2017
It’s not only about money 16 March 2017
Why you can’t solve the NHS’s problems by banning smokers and the obese from treatment 15 March 2017
NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans: is transformation possible? 14 March 2017
PRIMARY CARE NETWORKS IN WALES 12 March 2017
NHS patient information sent to immigration authorities 11 March 2017
Hon Secretary’s report 9 March 2017
Is transformation of the NHS possible? 9 March 2017
NHS in a Crisis 8 March 2017
REVISED GENERAL PRACTICE CONTRACT IN WALES 6 March 2017
SHA Audit Report 2016 5 March 2017
Imagining the future: Growing older together? 4 March 2017
It’s not just about the money: 3 March 2017
Politics in the digital technology age 2 March 2017
From high street retailer to provider of community eyecare? 1 March 2017
‘Dangerous’ new changes planned to force sick people into work – or into poverty 28 February 2017
PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE IN WALES — WILL IT BE A RUSHED JOB? 27 February 2017
Patient Transport Services and Damaging Privatisation 27 February 2017
Minutes of SHA AGM 5th March 2016 27 February 2017
Why GPs should join the 4 March NHS protest 24 February 2017
Why we don’t need the alcohol industry for a strong economy 23 February 2017
Sustainability and transformation plans 22 February 2017
Reducing health inequalities locally 21 February 2017
‘LEGISLATION WATCH WALES’ – February 2017 19 February 2017
Staffordshire Madness 17 February 2017
New Propco – Opportunity or Threat? 15 February 2017
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Governor elections 12 February 2017
Minutes of SHA Central Council January 2017 9 February 2017
Why the state of child health must be taken seriously 8 February 2017
Report on SHA Meeting Jan 28th 2017 in South Shields 6 February 2017
The Brexit White Paper—making Britain great again? 4 February 2017
Policy consultation – health and wellbeing 3 February 2017
A National Disability Equality Campaign 2 February 2017
The future for Health Visiting 1 February 2017
Sustainability and Transformation Plans: a critical assessment 30 January 2017
The worst secret trade stitch up you’ve never heard of 24 January 2017
You get what you pay for 24 January 2017
Gambling With Our Future 21 January 2017
The junior doctors’ dispute 20 January 2017
Reconsidering our principles 19 January 2017
5 reasons Brexit is hazardous to our health 18 January 2017
Proposed policy on international trade 16 January 2017
Tory Government must fund NHS properly in South East London 14 January 2017
Winter Pressures On The NHS 13 January 2017
Put race equality back on the political agenda 12 January 2017
Mortality – the hard reality 2 January 2017
Annual Report 2016 1 January 2017
Health Divides – Where you live can kill you 30 December 2016
Cutting Nursing Bursaries – Uncertainty for the NHS 20 December 2016
Health Campaigns Together End of year report 2016 19 December 2016
Can Socialism Reinvent Itself for the 21st Century? 17 December 2016
Reviewing the Principles of the Socialist Health Association 16 December 2016
Corbyn Health policy 15 December 2016
Top 8 Healthcare Blogs You Should Be Following 14 December 2016
Andy Burnham: Transport and the environment 8 December 2016
Survival and Recovery Plans 7 December 2016
Labour’s new evaluation criteria for Sustainability and Transformation Plans 3 December 2016
Cheshire and Merseyside STP 2 December 2016
Deemed Consent for Organ Donation – one year on in Wales. 1 December 2016
Minutes of SHA Central Council September 2016 1 December 2016
Information technology is empowering 1 December 2016
Andy Burnham’s Health & Wellbeing manifesto 30 November 2016
Social Care Meltdown 29 November 2016
Does an ageing population lead to increased healthcare costs? 28 November 2016
Market model for care of people with learning disabilities is inviable 27 November 2016
Why GPs should become involved in ‘health creation’ 26 November 2016
Chancellor, general practice needs more money 19 November 2016
If Medics Treated Patients As Governments Treat the NHS 18 November 2016
NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans 17 November 2016
Sustainability and Transformation Plans: What to Look For 16 November 2016
The Work, Health and Disability Green Paper 15 November 2016
The Myth of the ‘Demographic Time Bomb’ 14 November 2016
To Save The NHS 13 November 2016
Adults with learning disabilities on the rack 10 November 2016
£1 billion shortfall in STP plan for South East London 9 November 2016
Smokers in deprived area put off by cost and faff of electronic cigarettes 8 November 2016
Why talking about an ‘NHS tax’ isn’t brave at all 7 November 2016
NHS Scotland Overview 2016 5 November 2016
Tories must come clean about the desperate state of the NHS 1 November 2016
If the NHS practised evidence-based nutrition, could it halt the rise in Type 2 diabetes? 1 November 2016
The Cost of Decency 30 October 2016
Ignore Liam Fox’s shameful migrant workers claim 29 October 2016
The True Value Of Community Pharmacy 28 October 2016
Homelessness Reduction Bill – the health issues 27 October 2016
Pharmacy cuts will add to pressure on NHS 26 October 2016
The NHS – Labour’s Greatest Achievement 19 October 2016
A snapshot of the current state of the NHS in 2016 18 October 2016
Blithering STP – Executive Summary 17 October 2016
The NHS should stay free 16 October 2016
Could private top-up insurance help fund the NHS? 15 October 2016
Dear Jon 13 October 2016
Fringe Event: Democratic Accountability 7 October 2016
21st Century Socialism – What Next? 6 October 2016
Democratic accountability in the modern NHS 5 October 2016
The future for social care 4 October 2016
Learning disability and social care 3 October 2016
Speech to Labour Annual Conference 2 October 2016
Speech to Labour Womens Conference in Liverpool 1 October 2016
A False Economy 30 September 2016
Labour’s vision for the health service 29 September 2016
Labour Party Conference NHS resolution 28 September 2016
A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body 27 September 2016
You Need to Be Rich to Grow Old With Dignity in Britain today 23 September 2016
The spirit of revisionism 22 September 2016
Labour can unite against Jeremy Hunt’s dangerous NHS plans 21 September 2016
Secure our NHS and social care 20 September 2016
Joint statement – Challenging the STPs 19 September 2016
STPs – A Dagger Pointed At The Heart Of The NHS 18 September 2016
Coping with a funding crisis 18 September 2016
The Question of Structure 17 September 2016
Mortality and Causes of Death 16 September 2016
Living with a zombie 15 September 2016
Health and Heartbreak 14 September 2016
Prospects for the NHS: Transformational incrementalism 14 September 2016
Could NHS Sustainability Plans Help Voters Influence The NHS’s Future? 13 September 2016
Should we classify obesity as a disease? 12 September 2016
Who cares about the rising number of suicides by mental health patients? 11 September 2016
Fight for sight 10 September 2016
Co-operation, collaboration and competition – inside the mindset of NHS managers 8 September 2016
Health Creation … tell us your Trojan Mouse success story! 7 September 2016
The case for health visiting needs to be strongly made this autumn 6 September 2016
Childhood Obesity 5 September 2016
Tory Plans for Hospital Closures and Further NHS Privatisation 4 September 2016
Labour and the NHS in Era 3 – Policy Challenges 3 September 2016
Jeremy Corbyn’s vision for the NHS will rescue it from Tory dismantling 2 September 2016
Where you live can kill you 1 September 2016
Speech on the NHS 31 August 2016
Peter Draper – An Appreciation 31 August 2016
Labour Must not Go Back to the Future – Again 30 August 2016
Independent Living and Long Term Care 21 August 2016
Beyond TTIP 15 August 2016
Can technology save the NHS? 13 August 2016
The Tories Are Ripping The Heart Out Of Our NHS 8 August 2016
Repeated experiences of racism most damaging to mental health 6 August 2016
How will Brexit affect the NHS? 4 August 2016
Who’s Afraid of the STP? 3 August 2016
Jeremy Hunt’s Prescription for the NHS Is a Bitter Pill to Swallow 2 August 2016
Excellent Ways to Stay Healthy and Avoid Stress in Political Campaigns 1 August 2016
Labour Leadership Poll 2016 1 August 2016
Workplace Hazards – Reasons & Remedies 24 July 2016
A system in crisis 23 July 2016
Labour Leadership 2016 20 July 2016
Racism in the NHS: don’t let the unspeakable become acceptable 20 July 2016
Leading the Labour Party 17 July 2016
A New Politics for Health 16 July 2016
Labour Leadership Election 2016 15 July 2016
Prevention of mental illness 15 July 2016
Welfare Reform 14 July 2016
Why governance and accountability matter in the provider sector 13 July 2016
Response to Labour Mental Health document 12 July 2016
Minutes of Central Council June 2016 11 July 2016
Notes on mental health policy 11 July 2016
Please help me make Scotland’s health service safer 10 July 2016
Object to coercion, support the right to work 9 July 2016
We can transform NHS IT! 8 July 2016
Developing a new policy for social (care) 6 July 2016
The 2016/17 Sustainability and Transformation Fund 5 July 2016
Cleaner Air for East London 4 July 2016
It’s our party, so forgive us if we cry if we want to 3 July 2016
Research-Backed Health Benefits of Coffee 2 July 2016
Health inequalities today 2 July 2016
Mental Health and GPs 1 July 2016
The Talented Mr Corbyn 30 June 2016
Infrastructure for Health and Public Health 29 June 2016
Tackling the hazards to health posed by air pollution 28 June 2016
Mr Corbyn’s Casebook 26 June 2016
Manchester Mayoral hustings 26 June 2016
Tony Lloyd bid for Mayor of Greater Manchester 25 June 2016
Statement from Andy Burnham to the SHA 23 June 2016
Greedy bastards 23 June 2016
Ivan Lewis for mayor 21 June 2016
Report from our Mental Health workshop in Norwich 21 June 2016
Plugging the gap in mental health services 21 June 2016
The GP Forward View – GPs Should Stay Angry 20 June 2016
Public Transport and Public Health 19 June 2016
Majority think NHS is heading in the wrong direction 19 June 2016
The NHS – asset or liability 18 June 2016
Mental health and social work 15 June 2016
Policy Summary June 2016 13 June 2016
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis 11 June 2016
Fair Society Healthy Air 10 June 2016
Personal Budgets of the future 9 June 2016
Wales in prudent health 8 June 2016
In praise of bolshie patients 6 June 2016
Forget about fats – it’s processed food we should be worried about 5 June 2016
Issues for Labour’s pharmacies policy 3 June 2016
Causes of health inequalities 2 June 2016
Adventures of an accidental whistleblower 25 May 2016
‘Help yourself’ 25 May 2016
Why England could get knocked out in the quarter finals 24 May 2016
UK and the EU: future relationships 23 May 2016
DevoManc – Health and Social Care 22 May 2016
The Queen’s speech and the NHS 20 May 2016
Deal or no deal? 19 May 2016
Can Simon Stevens’ Sustainability and Transformation Plans save the NHS? 16 May 2016
Mental illness is the biggest single cause of misery in our society 14 May 2016
How to overcome your worries that have been holding you back? 13 May 2016
The NHS and the European Union 13 May 2016
Healthier Scotland 12 May 2016
Cut the horse manure! Where’s the evidence? 8 May 2016
Weighing up the Co-operative difference 7 May 2016
Sadiq Khan has a chance to kickstart dementia policy in London 6 May 2016
West Midlands Health Briefing 4 May 2016
What has Sadiq Khan got to say about health? 1 May 2016
Devolution and the Voluntary & Community Sector 29 April 2016
What is on Offer for Health and Social Care in the Welsh Assembly Elections? 26 April 2016
NHS walk-in centres are popular 26 April 2016
The life of a junior doctor 24 April 2016
The NHS, TTIP, and the EU referendum 18 April 2016
Is Primary Care in the Stone Age? 17 April 2016
Unequal beginnings 16 April 2016
We need to talk about co-production? 15 April 2016
The Stolen Years 15 April 2016
Housing in London 14 April 2016
Junior doctors outside Richmond House 14 April 2016
Yorkshire Support for Junior Doctors 13 April 2016
The Health-Related Consequences of Brexit 13 April 2016
The Ombudsman – safe in her hands? 12 April 2016
What if the Government actually wanted junior doctor strikes? 11 April 2016
“It’s my party and I’ll lie if I want to” 10 April 2016
NHS productivity statistics 9 April 2016
Across all leadership approaches, Jeremy Hunt is not fit to practise 7 April 2016
Roy Lilley talks to junior doctors on the picket line 7 April 2016
Why are the Junior doctors still on strike? 6 April 2016
24/7 GP – a final fantasy? 6 April 2016
Report on Health and Social Care Summit 18/3/16 6 April 2016
The unsuccessful privatisation of social care 5 April 2016
Mental Health: the way forward 4 April 2016
Jeremy Hunt is not a pathological liar, but he could be trusted more by junior doctors 3 April 2016
The NHS: More Liverpool than Leicester City? 2 April 2016
Illegitimi non carborundum (especially if you’re a female junior doctor) 1 April 2016
If you tolerate this, then your children will be next 31 March 2016
Savings, services & silver bullets 31 March 2016
Five Reasons To Support The Junior Doctors 30 March 2016
The curious case of Jeremy Hunt 29 March 2016
OECD & WELSH NHS — IMPROVING BUT NEEDS TO IMPROVE LIKE REST OF UK NHS 29 March 2016
Challenges for health and social care in DevoManc 29 March 2016
Why A ‘National Living Wage’ Is Not A Real Living Wage 28 March 2016
Countering Brexit myths 27 March 2016
The Junior Doctors Strike has become the Poll Tax for Jeremy Hunt 26 March 2016
Whose choice is it anyway? 25 March 2016
Government U-turns on HIV game changer PrEP 23 March 2016
NHS England will not pay for new HIV prevention treatment 22 March 2016
No wonder morale is low in the NHS 22 March 2016
Does the internet make children unhappy? 20 March 2016
Legislation Watch Wales 19 March 2016
Attacking the roots of inequality 18 March 2016
How ‘dementia friendly’ was the Budget? 17 March 2016
Devolution is not the only path to integrated healthcare 16 March 2016
Avoiding Air Pollution 16 March 2016
Parliament cannot have intended to produce whistleblowing oversight for junior doctors 16 March 2016
Britain’s care homes are being turned into complex financial instruments 15 March 2016
Will the new Work and Health Programme primarily target the ESA Support Group? 14 March 2016
The government’s own numbers show that alcohol is under-taxed 13 March 2016
Junior doctors in Wilmslow 12 March 2016
Funding cuts could close hundreds of pharmacies 12 March 2016
Austerity is a political choice 12 March 2016
Caroline Lucas proposing the NHS Bill today 11 March 2016
Forgery and the future: the story of Hans Van Megeeren 11 March 2016
NHS Reinstatement Bill 10 March 2016
Social care must not disable people with intellectual disabilities 9 March 2016
In Defence of the Weekend 8 March 2016
Locking Up Ill Children Has No Place in the 21st Century 8 March 2016
NHS in the Thick of it 8 March 2016
Why we’re opposed to “Jobs on prescription” 8 March 2016
People’s History of the NHS website 7 March 2016
AGM resolution 2016 6 March 2016
Health and the EU… some issues and reasons to stay in 6 March 2016
Speech to the Nuffield Trust 5 March 2016
National Health Service Bill 4 March 2016
North East Mental Health Workshop 4 March 2016
National Health Service Bill 3 March 2016
Is Britain a racist country? 3 March 2016
Local Housing Allowance and supported housing 2 March 2016
Hospital deficits are skewing NHS priorities 2 March 2016
How GPs can lead the fight-back 1 March 2016
Austerity hampers personalisation in social care 29 February 2016
SHA Audit Report 2015 28 February 2016
NHS in Wales 25 February 2016
Tobacco, alcohol and processed food industries 24 February 2016
Minutes of SHA Central Council January 2016 24 February 2016
The Sugar Tax Debate 23 February 2016
Mental Health Taskforce report: My View 22 February 2016
The Surviving Work Survey 21 February 2016
Fizzy drink companies spell out sugar content in teaspoons 20 February 2016
Going Backwards 19 February 2016
Relationships key to mental health recovery 18 February 2016
Proof council cuts hit poorest areas hardest 17 February 2016
English dementia policy may be weighted too much towards prevention, diagnosis and future cure 17 February 2016
Ending Tendering in Social Care 16 February 2016
Make Pubs, Restaurants and Cinema chains show calorie counts 15 February 2016
#Cams7daysscam 14 February 2016
NHS: A long game comes to a close? 13 February 2016
Measuring child poverty: proposed changes will push families into unacceptable hardship 12 February 2016
Public Health Grant allocations 11 February 2016
Taking the long view on the state of the NHS 10 February 2016
Heath Action Report 9 February 2016
The Health Implications of Jeremy Corbyn’s UK Labour Party Leadership Victory 8 February 2016
Health and Social Care Commission debate 7 February 2016
Sharing patient records 3 February 2016
Royal College of Surgeons backs calls for increase in placebo surgery 2 February 2016
Tax avoidance and the NHS 1 February 2016
Mental health seminar in Durham 31 January 2016
NHS and social care commission debate 30 January 2016
Bristol meeting on devolution and integration 29 January 2016
The changing face of community and primary care in England 28 January 2016
Mental Health in Durham 27 January 2016
Invest in Mental Health 25 January 2016
Can we afford the National Health Service? 23 January 2016
Beware of the Reinstatement Bill 20 January 2016
Mental Health – the poor relation 19 January 2016
Parity of Esteem 18 January 2016
Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in 16 January 2016
Will 2016 push the NHS over the edge of chaos? 15 January 2016
SOCIAL CARE REVIEW IN SCOTLAND 15 January 2016
SOCIAL WORK IN WALES VALUED 14 January 2016
Greater public investment is needed to fund the NHS 14 January 2016
At least Jeremy Hunt got his ‘consultant-led service’ after all 13 January 2016
Liverpool Womens Hospital 9am today 12 January 2016
Junior doctors picket Manchester 12 January 2016 12 January 2016
The politics of health 11 January 2016
Jeremy’s Punt 10 January 2016
Junior Doctors: A Call From the BMA 4 January 2016
Annual Report 2015 1 January 2016
The SHA blog 2015 31 December 2015
Beyond austerity: the National Care Service and a new social settlement 30 December 2015
Redisorganisation, Hospitals and Trusts 29 December 2015
Time to End the Stafford Saga 28 December 2015
Immigration may reduce the time you wait to see the doctor 26 December 2015
NHS Choir – A Bridge Over You 23 December 2015
Aubrey Sheiham 21 December 2015
Quality Care Commission report 20 December 2015
Maintaining our mental health 16 December 2015
Cure over prevention 15 December 2015
Against austerity 14 December 2015
Hospital Porters 12 December 2015
TACKLING INEQUALITY — CAN YOU FOLLOW THE MONEY? 7 December 2015
The NHS ‘founding myth’ 5 December 2015
Is that it for the NHS? 4 December 2015
Is this Europe? 2 December 2015
W(h)ither health and safety at work? 30 November 2015
Junior doctors strike Tuesday 29 November 2015
Has the #SpendingReview fully funded the NHS? 28 November 2015
What has the Immigration Bill got to do with public health? 27 November 2015
Devolution bill poses a serious threat to the NHS 25 November 2015
Relationships – Thinking differently about developing the care system 24 November 2015
#notsafenotfair 22 November 2015
The #juniordoctors fight is the battle for the NHS 21 November 2015
Contract unfair and unsafe 21 November 2015
Healthcare policy for those on probation 20 November 2015
Minutes of SHA Central Council September 2015 19 November 2015
Junior Doctors Strike Ballot 19 November 2015
Reforming the UK Health Reforms 17 November 2015
Be prepared for a less ‘national’ health service 16 November 2015
Speech to National Voices Annual Members’ Conference 2015 13 November 2015
Support the WOWpetition 12 November 2015
Response by Allyson Pollock and Peter Roderick 11 November 2015
Crisis in care 10 November 2015
Cereal killers: the stealth sugars lurking in breakfast drinks 9 November 2015
Save our Social Care – Keep our Social Care 8 November 2015
NHS Reinstatement Bill 5 November 2015
Why Nye Bevan and Jennie Lee deserve their blue plaque 4 November 2015
How Our Family Pets Are Protecting Us Against Allergies 3 November 2015
How to tackle the crisis in mental health 3 November 2015
Children’s mental health 2 November 2015
Future of the House of Lords 1 November 2015
Public Health policy review 31 October 2015
Safer, Healthier Communities 30 October 2015
Commission on Health Inequalities 29 October 2015
We cannot let them turn Bevan’s dream into a nightmare 28 October 2015
Patients Know Best 27 October 2015
Primary care could open door to insurance-based NHS 27 October 2015
Who is looking forward to their first day in residential care? 26 October 2015
The need for a ‘sugar tax’ 25 October 2015
Social inequalities in the leading causes of early death 24 October 2015
Prevention is better than cure 23 October 2015
Campaigning for the NHS? 23 October 2015
Fantasy targets 22 October 2015
Economic policy, not reform, is the current threat to the NHS 22 October 2015
The best reason yet to save the NHS 22 October 2015
Tips to Keep your Heart Healthy 21 October 2015
Presence of anti-abortion activists ‘a significant source of distress’ 21 October 2015
Our health our health services 20 October 2015
Childhood poverty and adult health 19 October 2015
Congratulations 18 October 2015
Why are junior doctors demonstrating today? 17 October 2015
What do the government’s devolution plans mean for a national health service? 14 October 2015
Fit for the future 12 October 2015
One Nation Corbyn 11 October 2015
TTIP petition handed in to Geraint Davies MP 10 October 2015
Jos Bell proposing Labour party conference resolution 7 October 2015
Active at Any Age: A Painless Way to Start Moving More 6 October 2015
NHS funding: record-breaking cuts? 6 October 2015
Is the ‘purchaser–provider split’ dead? 5 October 2015
4 Tips for Boosting Your Mental Health 4 October 2015
Labour Transport team support Space for Cycling 3 October 2015
The NHS Reinstatement Bill 2 October 2015
Car smoking ban – landmark moment for public health 2 October 2015
Labour Health Policy 2015 1 October 2015
A view from the Left 1 October 2015
DICKENSIAN PUBLIC HEALTH CUTS 30 September 2015
Bevan and the NHS 29 September 2015
National services, local need 28 September 2015
Older carers: why SHA should get involved 25 September 2015
A holistic approach to health and care 24 September 2015
Outsourcing of NHS services a growing threat 23 September 2015
Parity of Esteem 22 September 2015
Bevan and beyond 21 September 2015
Labour puts mental health centre stage 20 September 2015
Why the new junior doctor contract is a slap in the face 19 September 2015
Jeremy Hunt faces a formidable opponent 19 September 2015
A Socialist Health Policy? 18 September 2015
Fight for Our NHS 17 September 2015
Risks to the health and social care economy 16 September 2015
New challenges or old for Labour health policy? 15 September 2015
The influence of the private insurance industry on the UK welfare reforms 15 September 2015
Jeremy Corbyn 14 September 2015
Being fair in healthcare 14 September 2015
Greater Manchester’s mission 13 September 2015
Dependent variable 10 September 2015
Chancellor Slashes Public Health services to the bone 9 September 2015
Hacked 3D kitchen design software could save NHS tens of millions in unused home disability aids 8 September 2015
The health inequality challenge 7 September 2015
Social isolation and loneliness 4 September 2015
The Local Health Service? 3 September 2015
Will Personal Health Budgets Destroy the NHS? 2 September 2015
Expert patients 31 August 2015
Depression & Swimming 30 August 2015
Pedalling towards equality? 27 August 2015
Eight Ways to Actively Fight Depression 24 August 2015
Neoliberal epidemics: How inequality makes us sick 24 August 2015
Legislation Watch Wales 22 August 2015
Labour Leadership and health 21 August 2015
NHS Survival: Why I won’t be joining the club (yet) 21 August 2015
Doctors for the NHS 20 August 2015
Plan B – Be Afraid 7 August 2015
Putting Things right in the UK 30 July 2015
Accessible Information Standard 27 July 2015
What is the NHS and what is it for? 20 July 2015
Giving social care the priority it deserves 13 July 2015
Referred pain in the care system 9 July 2015
A partnership model is needed to break down NHS defensiveness 8 July 2015
Health And Wellbeing For BME Communities 7 July 2015
Labour Leadership Poll 6 July 2015
Inequality isn’t just bad for people at the bottom of the heap 6 July 2015
Paradise Regained and Paradise Lost? 5 July 2015
Race equality and mental health 3 July 2015
NHS Reinstatement – Back to the Future? 2 July 2015
DevoManc issues for ‘dementia friendly communities’ 20 June 2015
Labour Leadership Poll 18 June 2015
Inequality within our transport system 18 June 2015
Pregnant Mothers in Immigration Detention 16 June 2015
Minutes of SHA Central Council June 2015 16 June 2015
Did the NHS win or lose the election? 12 June 2015
Buurtzorg 11 June 2015
Obesity: How Thatcherism made us fat 9 June 2015
Time for a fully integrated salaried General Practice? 8 June 2015
Decriminalisation of drugs 4 June 2015
Minutes of SHA AGM 14th March 2015 4 June 2015
DevoManc official briefing 26 May 2015
Suggestions for a strategy 22 May 2015
Who are the top football teams in the health league? 21 May 2015
Aspirations for the Northern Powerhouse – DevoManc 20 May 2015
How did the NHS affect voting? 20 May 2015
Winning the Best Community Care for Lewisham 19 May 2015
Suggestions for the SHA’s health policy 14 May 2015
My experiences of my local NHS 13 May 2015
The Devo Manc Supper Club 12 May 2015
What Now for our NHS? 9 May 2015
Charlotte Church: 3 May 2015
Weaponizing the NHS isn’t helping it 28 April 2015
Liberal Democrats and the NHS 27 April 2015
Greater Manchester Devolution Package 25 April 2015
Not a plan 24 April 2015
How the high cost of PFI has added to the deficit 23 April 2015
The NHS debate 22 April 2015
What is the future for NHS reform? 21 April 2015
The contracting NHS 20 April 2015
The price isn’t right 18 April 2015
NHS in rural areas 16 April 2015
A better place to live; Health and wellbeing for all 13 April 2015
A Better Plan for the NHS Health and Care 11 April 2015
Doctors and the NHS 10 April 2015
Doctors verdict on Coalition management of the NHS 9 April 2015
Councils are fighting with one hand behind their backs on public health 8 April 2015
Labour – the only party with a race equality strategy for mental health 7 April 2015
2015 Bevan Prize for Health and Wellbeing 6 April 2015
Effective, Efficient and Equitable 5 April 2015
Is the NHS wrongly named? 4 April 2015
Better community care in Lewisham 3 April 2015
Cold Homes 29 March 2015
DevoManc and the NHS: Mind the gaps 27 March 2015
A tale of two general election years 26 March 2015
A sustainable solution to the NHS deficit 25 March 2015
Response To The Five Year Forward View For The NHS 23 March 2015
PFI Again 22 March 2015
It’s time Cinderella came to the ball 21 March 2015
The potential of Devo Manc 20 March 2015
The protective effects of social democratic welfare states during recessions 20 March 2015
Halt the care.data roll-out 19 March 2015
Loneliness is bad for health 18 March 2015
Keep it Co-op 18 March 2015
Cancer Not For Profit 18 March 2015
Five ways the government is failing NHS patients 17 March 2015
Dealing with market failure 16 March 2015
The Five Year Forward View – Plan To Destroy The NHS 16 March 2015
Legislation Watch – Wales 15 March 2015
DevoManc: does the future of health and social care start here? 14 March 2015
Real time flow in A&E – there’s an app for that! 14 March 2015
TTIP ‘threat to people’s health in UK and across Europe’ 13 March 2015
Annual report 2014 12 March 2015
the NHS report that Labour tried to block.. 11 March 2015
Integration: harnessing the power of co-production 11 March 2015
NHS Reinstatement Bill – Back to the Future? Again? 10 March 2015
What I don’t want for the NHS in Manchester 9 March 2015
Rural areas count the cost of broken political promises 6 March 2015
Devo All – The Role for Local Authorities (in England) 5 March 2015
DevoManc, DevoMancHealth and the perils of techno-fixes 5 March 2015
Stigma and Discrimination in Mental Health 4 March 2015
The Impact Celebration Event (NHS Improving Quality 2015) 3 March 2015
A Manchester Health Service… MHS or NHS? 3 March 2015
Getting the best NHS deal for Manchester 2 March 2015
€3bn savings plan for French hospitals 1 March 2015
Immigration health charge 1 March 2015
Devo Manc – Don’t Panic 28 February 2015
Dispensing Doctors and Rural General Practice 27 February 2015
A Ten Point Plan for the NHS 26 February 2015
Devo Manc and the NHS 25 February 2015
Doctors’ group to fight NHS break-up 25 February 2015
Plans, Views, and our policy 25 February 2015
Labour’s 10 Year Plan for Health and Care 24 February 2015
UKIP Health Policy 23 February 2015
Cost of the Market in our NHS 23 February 2015
Picked Up, Patched Up and Sent Home 22 February 2015
Focus on helping people before they reach the NHS 16 February 2015
NHS Wales 15 February 2015
Food safety in crisis 13 February 2015
Losing political office 12 February 2015
Children’s Mental Health 11 February 2015
Where do people die? 10 February 2015
Is integration the end for inclusion? 10 February 2015
Freedom to Hide Information 9 February 2015
Is Bevan’s NHS under threat? 9 February 2015
SHA Audit Report 2014 9 February 2015
Thoughts after the Kings Fund Epiphany 8 February 2015
Mental Health Services 7 February 2015
WHAT DO THE WELSH THINK OF THEIR NHS 5 February 2015
Care crisis and NHS crisis – time for a new response 4 February 2015
What do we already know about Integrating Health and Social Care? 3 February 2015
The first city in the UK to ban smoking in outdoor public places 2 February 2015
Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership 2 February 2015
Liz Kendall. Blairista? 1 February 2015
Is the private sector always bad? 30 January 2015
Labours’ vision for health and social care is clear – lets see what the others have got 29 January 2015
Picked Up, Patched Up and Sent Home 29 January 2015
Labour’s Ten Year Plan for Health and Care 29 January 2015
Minutes of SHA Central Council January 2015 28 January 2015
What Plan? 28 January 2015
Public spending on Health 26 January 2015
Breaking the Cycle 25 January 2015
A Quiet Revolution 24 January 2015
Using Information to Challenge Health Inequalities 22 January 2015
What does the public think of the NHS 21 January 2015
Food crime—why should doctors care? 21 January 2015
The Care system in England 20 January 2015
Protecting Children, Empowering All 19 January 2015
What do international comparisons say about the NHS? 18 January 2015
Who is the Patients’ friend? CHCs or PALS? 15 January 2015
Hunger and the election campaign 14 January 2015
They do it differently over here……. 13 January 2015
Who should govern the NHS? GPs or community? 13 January 2015
It doesn’t have to be like this 12 January 2015
History (as interpreted by Irwin) Repeats Itself? 12 January 2015
This election should be the spur for a real debate about the NHS’ future 11 January 2015
Hinchingbrooke, George Eliot and Liars 9 January 2015
Annual report summary 2014 8 January 2015
Funding of Welsh NHS 8 January 2015
Keep the Split? 6 January 2015
Public Procurement 30 December 2014
NHS and Social Care Law 28 December 2014
Thoughts on the Five Year Forward View 26 December 2014
Nick Clegg’s claims about Labour’s NHS record 15 December 2014
Key Challenges for Care 14 December 2014
Mental Health and policing 14 December 2014
Whistleblowers be warned 12 December 2014
Social Care 11 December 2014
An NHS With Time To Care 10 December 2014
Changing Britain Together 9 December 2014
NHS Privatisation – A Ring Of Yellow Metal 8 December 2014
Is socially accepted injustice inevitable? 4 December 2014
Forced To Care 1 December 2014
Fairy Story 29 November 2014
When does marketisation lead to privatisation? 28 November 2014
Invitation to contribute to the Merlin History Project 25 November 2014
Two Bills 24 November 2014
The Clive Efford Bill 23 November 2014
Eight Myths about the NHS 22 November 2014
Labour must be convincing about the NHS 20 November 2014
Fair deal for Care Workers 19 November 2014
Welsh Legislation Watch 17 November 2014
Public Consultation In The NHS 13 November 2014
National Child Obesity Epidemic 12 November 2014
Neil Findlay and Katy Clark 11 November 2014
Health Policies for 2015 10 November 2014
What is welfare spending? 7 November 2014
Cancer Treatment Fund for Wales? 6 November 2014
PRUDENT CHOICES FOR A PRUDENT WELSH NHS 5 November 2014
Trading health? 4 November 2014
Socialist Health Association Central Council Minutes 1 November 2014
Our Plan not the Stevens Plan 28 October 2014
Jeremy Hunt’s claims of savings 27 October 2014
Having a baby in Wales 26 October 2014
Daily Mail claims on Welsh NHS 24 October 2014
Forwards or Backwards? 23 October 2014
DAILY MAIL STILL GOOSE STEPPING ON THE TRUTH ABOUT WELSH NHS 23 October 2014
Avoiding privatisation in the NHS – a possible way out 26 July 2013
THE FUTURE OF HEALTH CARE – CAPTIVE WORKERS 25 July 2013
Short staff dilemma 22 July 2013
Who Owns Care Homes? 19 July 2013
Deaths from Heart Attack in England 18 July 2013
Local authorities should run commissioning 12 July 2013
A wellbeing programme for Labour 6 July 2013
Inequality and children in the UK 29 June 2013
Submission to Inquiry into the Effectiveness of Health Systems 27 June 2013
Why Free School Meals for All? 26 June 2013
OFF Sick 26 June 2013
Special Education – what should Labour do? 25 June 2013
Can We Democratise the NHS? 21 June 2013
Behind the Cost of NHS Prescriptions 20 June 2013
Evidence to the Labour Party Investigation into Health Service Organisation 16 June 2013
Crisis? What Crisis? 7 June 2013
Why the NHS (desperately) needs Local Authorities 5 June 2013
Clinical Commissioning Board meeting 4 June 2013
Politics of healthcare in England and the USA 25 May 2013
Healthcare reform in the US: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 2010 24 May 2013
Oregon Health Plan 23 May 2013
Mid Staffordshire – the way forward 17 May 2013
This is not just care, this is NHS ‘Whole Person Care’! 30 April 2013
Independent Commission on Whole Person Care 27 April 2013
Nurse Training 25 April 2013
Please Help Lord Hunt Win His Section 75 Prayer Debate 20 April 2013
Andy Burnham’s plan for care, and questions that arise from it 16 April 2013
Hilda Smith MBE 13 April 2013
The Case Against Homeopathy 10 April 2013
The Case for Homeopathy 10 April 2013
Tobacco and Health Inequality 10 April 2013
Back to Basics 10 April 2013
Private Finance Initiatives – What Now? 29 March 2013
Cameron’s Great Nhs Carve-Up 15 March 2013
Using the wealth of older people to ensure the affordability and quality of their health and social care 12 March 2013
Annual General Meeting – Chair’s Address 10 March 2013
Using resident scrutiny to drive housing and care accountability 24 February 2013
Financial Report 2012 3 February 2013
Annual report for 2012 27 January 2013
Mind the Gap – Restriction on Access to Treatment in the NHS 27 January 2013
How To Fund Research To Enhance Your Organisation’s Role And Function? 14 January 2013
Taxing Sugar 9 January 2013
Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign 10 December 2012
Reconfiguration, South London, Trust Special Administrator 8 December 2012
Cycling safer than driving for young people 6 December 2012
Reforming social care in England – half a step forward and several steps back? 27 November 2012
Andy Burnham’s talk to Tower Hamlets Labour Party 23 November 2012
Integrated Care for the Vulnerable: the technical, organisational and political challenges 5 November 2012
South London Healthcare Trust – More of the Same 4 November 2012
Co–production addressing health inequalities 3 November 2012
European manifesto opposing the commercialization of the health system 31 October 2012
Can you improve our image? 30 October 2012
Life Expectancy England & Wales since 1701 28 October 2012
COMPOSITE 4- Health & Social Care 19 October 2012
The voice of experience 13 October 2012
Health inequalities in Scotland and England: the translation of ideas between research and policy 10 October 2012
NHS reform: Ten Things to Argue About 5 October 2012
Repeal and Replace Health Act 2012 2 October 2012
Labour Party Policy for Disabled People 28 September 2012
Myths about PFI markets and privatisation 25 September 2012
A&E Closures 23 September 2012
Labour Health Policy for 2015 21 September 2012
Labour Party Contemporary Motions 2012 11 September 2012
How much sugar do Americans consume? 9 September 2012
Improving the Health of the Nation 23 August 2012
Europäisches Manifest gegen die Kommerzialisierung des Gesundheitswesens 21 August 2012
Labour Health Policy Consultation 2 August 2012
Hinchingbrooke test case for privatisation 2 August 2012
An Alternative Vision for Health Policy 1 August 2012
The Health Effects of Unemployment 1 August 2012
Labour should support personal health budgets 26 July 2012
True History of the Coalition Gang 23 July 2012
Life Expectancy at birth in London 21 July 2012
Manipulating waiting lists 21 July 2012
Johanna Baxter’s report on new Labour Policy process: 19 July 2012
Consultation on local authority health scrutiny 18 July 2012
What we stand for 14 July 2012
Welfare advice in primary care: A qualitative study of service user and staff perceptions 27 June 2012
The impact of national welfare reforms on Wolverhampton, alongside other disruptive factors, 2011-2017 27 June 2012
Labour’s National Policy Forum 17 June 2012
Nye Bevan responds to Labour’s NPF health questions 14 June 2012
How can services be made more accountable to patients, public and staff? 6 June 2012
How can the NHS promote better mental health and well-being across the population? 6 June 2012
How can we better extend services to hard to reach families and communities? 6 June 2012
Labour Party Policy consultation June 2012 6 June 2012
Whose National Health Service is it? 27 April 2012
A new health policy for Labour 29 March 2012
Andy Burnham on risks to the NHS 1 May 2011
NHS Dentistry: A Strategy For 2000 And Beyond 4 November 1998
Health 2000 — SHA’s Response 4 April 1994
Response to the Tomlinson Report 18 December 1992
Briefing for Prospective Parliamentary Candidates 6 September 1991
The state and the profession: the politics of the double bed 3 October 1990
The time to hesitate is through 7 November 1980
Aims of the Socialist Medical Association 23 October 1980
National Health Service Reorganisation: England 13 August 1972
Hospital Waiting Lists 16 June 1970
The Future Of The Family Doctor 12 June 1959
25th Anniversary Commemoration Brochure 22 October 1955
Peckham and Architecture a drama of building and people 21 September 1949
The Pioneer Health Centre 20 October 1946
NOTES FOR DISCUSSION GROUPS 15 October 1943
National Service for Health 18 April 1943
Health Centres 1 July 1942
Health Service debate 1934 Labour Party Conference 14 October 1934
A State Health Service 14 September 1934
For Socialism and Peace 14 September 1934
Labour, the Children’s Champion 27 January 1923
Ministry of Health Act, 1919 3 June 1919
A Nation Insured 1 January 1912
Draft Policy summary 18 October 2014
Can Oliver Letwin deliver an Ombudsman service fit for the 21st Century? 17 October 2014
Cost of the Market Yet Again 16 October 2014
Equality, efficiency and quality 16 October 2014
Socialist Health Association Central Council Minutes 16 October 2014
Labour’s Health and Care Policy Summary 15 October 2014
No Access to Work 14 October 2014
What Happens When Public Services Markets Fail? 13 October 2014
Tories Regret NHS Changes!!! Read All About It 13 October 2014
Bristol Festival of Health Ideas 12 October 2014
DWP’s Benefit Sanctions 9 October 2014
Keep Our NHS Public 7 October 2014
What Tesco can teach the NHS? 6 October 2014
NHS Charges – a zombie idea 4 October 2014
PFI 1 October 2014
Labour’s ‘Big Plan’? 23 September 2014
New actions to address the North-South health divide 19 September 2014
Community Mental Health Survey 18 September 2014
Memorial tribute for Ali Syed 16 September 2014
Bill to ensure safe nurse staffing levels in NHS Wales 16 September 2014
Patient Power Can Make London Healthier 11 September 2014
An NHS for the whole person and whole community 9 September 2014
Circle: Behind the Smoke and Mirrors 9 September 2014
Labour’s Health and Care Policy 8 September 2014
TTIP Procurement and our NHS 8 September 2014
Private provision of NHS services 7 September 2014
Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England 6 September 2014
Does a Spoonful of Sugar Help the Medicine Go Down? 3 September 2014
Campaign for Better Hospital Food 29 August 2014
Elitist Britain 29 August 2014
Why is Labour demonising the poor and widening social inequalities? 23 August 2014
Patient safety in private hospitals 22 August 2014
Privatisation and Care homes 22 August 2014
NHS Groupthink 21 August 2014
Community Meditation Centres 20 August 2014
Doctor And Nurse Ostrich 19 August 2014
Our Care System – Issues for Incoming Labour Government 18 August 2014
Clinical Research in the UK 16 August 2014
Is Bevan’s NHS under threat? 15 August 2014
Charter for Community Development in Health 14 August 2014
Bad Summer for General Practice? 6 August 2014
Further Madness in Staffordshire 30 July 2014
National Policy Forum Report 20 July 2014
A social model of health 18 July 2014
Bean counting and the NHS 17 July 2014
Free Parking for Patients and Visitors 16 July 2014
Proposed Amendment on Mental Health 15 July 2014
Let disabled people speak for themselves 15 July 2014
Visitor & Migrant NHS Cost Recovery Programme 14 July 2014
The fundamental standards for providers 14 July 2014
Hidden Cameras In Nursing Facilities 13 July 2014
Independent local commissioners, not CCTV 13 July 2014
What next for public accountability in the Scottish NHS? 12 July 2014
TTIP 11 July 2014
The architecture of power in the new NHS 11 July 2014
Salter Statues Campaign 10 July 2014
What do the public think about the NHS? 9 July 2014
Quality Accounts – is your hospital care improving? 8 July 2014
Madness in Staffordshire 7 July 2014
The Labour Party and a Living Wage 6 July 2014
Scots NHS satisfaction soars as England’s falls 3 July 2014
What Future for Voluntary Services? 2 July 2014
Top Ten for Number Ten 1 July 2014
Reforming the NHS from within 1 July 2014
Labour’s Challenge 30 June 2014
Notes of SHA Cymru Wales Officers Meeting 26 June 2014
The NHS Plan 2015 26 June 2014
Labour Party Disabled Members Group Amendments 25 June 2014
Healthier Scotland 24 June 2014
UK Disabled People’s Manifesto: Reclaiming Our Futures 23 June 2014
Independent Living 22 June 2014
Privatisation in the NHS 21 June 2014
Health Policy Amendments 20 June 2014
Round up : public health in the news 17 June 2014
Detained: Women asylum seekers locked up in the UK 17 June 2014
National Insurance a bad way to pay for the NHS 14 June 2014
TTIP, Europe, Procurement and our NHS 13 June 2014
More of the Perils of Competitive Tendering 13 June 2014
Perils of Competitive Tendering 12 June 2014
Notes of SHA Cymru Wales Officers Meeting 12 June 2014
Keep the Split 11 June 2014
Amendments to Labour Policies 9 June 2014
Access to GPs within 48 hours 9 June 2014
Socialist Health Association Central Council Minutes 9 June 2014
Proposed amendments to Your Britain for consideration 7th June 2014 6 June 2014
Labour’s Policy Dilemma 6 June 2014
Worldwide Lyme Disease Patients’ Protest 1 June 2014
Andrews Report — A failure of trust 29 May 2014
Immigration Act 2014: what next for migrants’ access to NHS care? 28 May 2014
Inquiry Into The Effectiveness Of International Health Systems 22 May 2014
Pride and Joy 22 May 2014
Dignity in Dying’s submission to the Health and Care Policy consultation 21 May 2014
NHS taxes and an argument for funding reform 20 May 2014
The Kingsmill Review: Taking Care 19 May 2014
Challenging the cult of competition in the NHS 13 May 2014
Social Work Action Network Conference report 13 May 2014
Ed Miliband’s speech on Labour health policy 13 May 2014
Proposals for charging 12 May 2014
Proposed amendments to Stability and Prosperity 12 May 2014
Proposed amendments to Labour Public Health Policy 11 May 2014
Proposed amendments to Stronger, Safer Communities 11 May 2014
Proposed amendments to Work and Business 11 May 2014
Proposed amendments to Education and Children 11 May 2014
There are now three Tory parties in the Labour Party 10 May 2014
Proposed amendments to Britain’s Global Role 10 May 2014
Proposed amendments to Living Standards and Sustainability 10 May 2014
Proposed amendments to Better Politics 10 May 2014
Sugar: the Sweetest Poison 9 May 2014
10 Proposed Amendments to health policy 9 May 2014
Socialist Health Association Central Council Minutes 9 May 2014
Health policy reform: global health versus private profit 8 May 2014
Power to the People? 6 May 2014
The NHS at the 2015 election 6 May 2014
Foundation Trusts 5 May 2014
Labour’s public health policies 4 May 2014
Labour’s nanny state plan for drinkers 4 May 2014
This May Hurt a Bit 3 May 2014
The Independent Commission on Whole Person Care 1 May 2014
Proposed amendments to Labour Mental Health Policy 1 May 2014
Income Distribution and Poverty 30 April 2014
Future options for the NHS 30 April 2014
Breaking the Link between Disability and Poverty 29 April 2014
Labour Party Disabled Members Group policy proposals 28 April 2014
Proposed amendments to Labour Health Policy 28 April 2014
What market-based patient choice can’t do for the NHS 28 April 2014
Mental Health Services 27 April 2014
Proposals for Labour policy on the NHS 27 April 2014
Why don’t we do it? 17 April 2014
Giving Up Smoking: The New Way to Get ‘Rich’ Quick? 17 April 2014
A Charter for Mental Health 16 April 2014
Notes of SHA Cymru Wales Officers Meeting 16 April 2014
Welsh NHS : Cameron and Hunt – Apologise to the House and to Wales 15 April 2014
Labour policies to tackle the social determinants of health? 15 April 2014
One Thousand Thank Yous 14 April 2014
Marking Their Own Homework 14 April 2014
Work Capability Assessment 13 April 2014
The Welsh NHS has much to teach the English 12 April 2014
Labour’s Health And Social Care Policy Consultation 10 April 2014
Why do all the forbidden words in the NHS begin with R: “Rationing”, “Reorganisation” and Rationalisation. 9 April 2014
Children’s Mental Health – a serious public health issue 9 April 2014
Could the Health Service Ombudsman be your knight in shining armour? 8 April 2014
Ideas for Labour Public Health Policy 7 April 2014
Why paying people the Living Wage should be a Public Health priority 6 April 2014
Welsh Public Health White Paper consultation 4 April 2014
Has pollution been air-brushed from public health policy? 3 April 2014
The Advantages Of Care At Home vs Institutionalisation 3 April 2014
The Transport and Health Study Group 2 April 2014
Defending the Welfare State 2 April 2014
New funding for the NHS 31 March 2014
Accountability in the NHS 28 March 2014
Whose NHS Is It Anyway? 28 March 2014
What’s to gain from Separation? 27 March 2014
Proposed policy on the NHS and social services we need 26 March 2014
Vote ‘Yes’ to tackle the causes of ill-health 26 March 2014
Reflections on the NHS in England 25 March 2014
Health and Independence 24 March 2014
Sexually Transmitted Infections 23 March 2014
Scotland – It’s Time to Care 22 March 2014
Minimum Pricing for Alcohol 21 March 2014
What kind of care service do we want? 20 March 2014
A national debate about NHS Scotland 20 March 2014
Health and Care Policy Consultation 19 March 2014
Health Inequalities 19 March 2014
Another NHS Review? 18 March 2014
At what cost? Paying the price for the market in the English NHS 17 March 2014
The Blue Flag 17 March 2014
Minutes of SHA AGM 8th March 2014 12 March 2014
One Person One Team One System 12 March 2014
Result of SHA Election 2014 8 March 2014
What is the point of the SHA? 7 March 2014
Annual General Meeting 8 March 2014 7 March 2014
Our health and their development: overlapping interests? 6 March 2014
Proposed Rule Changes 6 March 2014
Legislation Watch – Wales 6 March 2014
West Midlands view of SHA Governance 5 March 2014
Rights involve responsibilities for patients 5 March 2014
The NHS in Wales 3 March 2014
Statement on the “Governance and Constitutional Review report” 2 March 2014
The impact of welfare reform – time for action 27 February 2014
Director’s report to AGM 26 February 2014
Chair’s Report to Annual General Meeting 24 February 2014
SHA policy on the NHS and social services we need 23 February 2014
PAIN: ask about it and measure it 23 February 2014
Plus ça change? 17 February 2014
A price worth paying? The toxic health legacy of Thatcherism 16 February 2014
Care Data 13 February 2014
Bed Occupancy: Trusts Operating at Dangerous Levels 10 February 2014
The NHS and the private sector 9 February 2014
Everything is thought about apart from the patient 7 February 2014
Andy Burnham on Public Health 7 February 2014
Future options for the NHS 7 February 2014
Direct Payments: 10 reasons for not using them 5 February 2014
Cycle Helmets – Compulsory? 3 February 2014
Financial Report for 2013 2 February 2014
Smoking in Cars with Children 31 January 2014
Wales Cancer Patient Experience Survey 31 January 2014
Public services: Quality and Accountability 30 January 2014
The democratic promise and potential of membership in NHS Foundation Trusts 29 January 2014
GPs must speak out against plans to charge migrants 27 January 2014
Williams Commission Report On Public Services in Wales 26 January 2014
Ten Years After – NHS Foundation Trusts 25 January 2014
Policy submission on Public Health 23 January 2014
care.data 22 January 2014
A New Kind of Doctor 10 A New Social Alliance 23 October 1988
A New Kind of Doctor 9 The Necessity Of Community 23 October 1988
A New Kind of Doctor 8 Accountability For And To Groups 17 October 1988
A New Kind of Doctor 7 Accountability For and To Individuals 16 October 1988
Two cheap ways councils can fight health inequality 20 January 2014
Annual Report 2013 17 January 2014
Strategic Capacity Planning in Wales 16 January 2014
Editorial Board Time Line Report 16 January 2014
Submission to Labour Party Policy Commission on Health and Social Care 14 January 2014
The future of the NHS 9 January 2014
Broken promises on clinical networks 9 January 2014
Cameron’s hidden dementia taxes 8 January 2014
Minutes of Central Council Meeting 23rd November 2013 7 January 2014
Elderly bear the brunt of A&E crisis 7 January 2014
NHS Incorporated 6 January 2014
Adults’ Access to Care, 2010 6 January 2014
Towards a policy submission on Public Health 1 January 2014
Report on SHA Web presence 2013 1 January 2014
The Clocks Go Back Tonight 28 October 2012
The Walworth Clinic, Southwark: ‘the Health of the People is the Highest Law’ 11 April 2020
Directors Report Jan 2014 5 January 2014
Information And the Resource Allocation Working Party 18 December 2013
Public Opinion on the NHS 17 December 2013
Minutes of the AGM, SHA Cymru Wales 2013 16 December 2013
Government Reviewer Opposed Rollout of Employment and Support Allowance 13 December 2013
Investigating the real reason for the misery of ‘fit for work’ assessments 12 December 2013
Commuting to work and traveller stress 12 December 2013
The new NHS and how patients can find their way through the maze 11 December 2013
Personal Health Budgets and the left – less heat more light please 10 December 2013
Life Expectancy 9 December 2013
Response to Labour’s Final Year Document 9 December 2013
Between A Rock And A Hard Place: Parents, Their Children And Welfare Policies 8 December 2013
Health Policy and Politics Network 7 December 2013
care.data – a modern data service for the health and social care system 5 December 2013
The Mental Health Service in England 4 December 2013
Contribution to Labour Health Policy discussion 2 December 2013
Trust Special Administration 1 December 2013
A New Threat to CCGs, Hospitals and Accountability 30 November 2013
Blaming Children for Child Pedestrian Injuries 26 November 2013
Not Consulting 21 November 2013
International comparison of cost sharing in health care 19 November 2013
Reclaiming the “Big Society” 18 November 2013
The future of the NHS? Lessons from the market in social care in England 18 November 2013
Public Health Policy discussion 16 November 2013
How to Create the Conditions for a Healthcare Market: The Step-by-step Marketisation of the NHS in England 14 November 2013
Measuring the Health of Nations 13 November 2013
Keogh and Ambulance Services 13 November 2013
In which the Court of Appeal tells Jeremy Hunt his actions are strained and unnatural….and illegal. 13 November 2013
Expenditure on healthcare compared with outcomes 11 November 2013
NHS Liberation 11 November 2013
Private treatment and the NHS 10 November 2013
Director’s Report 10 November 2013
Public Health Possibilities 8 November 2013
Update on the work of the Independent Commission on Whole Person care 8 November 2013
Welcome to the new SHA website 4 November 2013
Market Madness and Hospitals 1 November 2013
A week in parliament or a challenge to a weak Parliament? 1 November 2013
In place of growth: The case for pursuing a steady state economy 31 October 2013
Redefining the Hippocratic Oath for 21st Century 31 October 2013
Austerity kills – we must invest 31 October 2013
A One Nation Approach To Health And Social Care 30 October 2013
Why being part of the European Union is good for our health 28 October 2013
Not Open or Transparent: Hiding Information 27 October 2013
Core Principles from NHS Plan 2000 26 October 2013
Keep it Simple: whole person care 23 October 2013
The north loses out yet again under NHS funding proposals 22 October 2013
Dutch Reform; The tenets of free market healthcare 21 October 2013
NHS on the brink of extinction 20 October 2013
One Nation Labour 19 October 2013
American Healthcare 19 October 2013
Beyond Bonkers – NHS Reconfiguration proposals 16 October 2013
The NHS and dog whistle politics 16 October 2013
NHS Confederation 2015 NHS Future Challenge 13 October 2013
Common Agricultural Policy influence on Health 12 October 2013
European Union Health Policy 12 October 2013
Sir Malcolm Grant at Expo 12 October 2013
Modelling a Healthy Economy – the next task for health care? 6 October 2013
Failure in First Contact Care: A Barrier to Integration 4 October 2013
An enabling environment to make a reality of active patients/citizens 3 October 2013
Cost of the NHS Market (Again) 2 October 2013
Tory marginal MPs facing electoral axe because of NHS crises in their patch 2 October 2013
Notes of SHA Cymru Wales Officers 29 September 2013
Hospital beds 29 September 2013
The new series of Dr Who 28 September 2013
Labour Party Conference Resolution on the NHS 27 September 2013
After Brighton – the Hard Work 27 September 2013
Free School Meals 20 September 2013
Making Equality Work – The NHS experience 19 September 2013
What can HS2 teach the NHS? 18 September 2013
Safe Staffing 18 September 2013
Brian Jarman’s statistics of hospital mortality 17 September 2013
Why Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio May be Dangerous to Your Health 15 September 2013
Austerity policies and Liverpool citizens 14 September 2013
Director’s Report 13 September 2013
Health and Social Security 12 September 2013
To Integrate Care, You`ll Need Evidence-Based Network Development 11 September 2013
Chas. F. Thackray Ltd: suppliers to the surgeons 8 September 2013
New ideas in public health 8 September 2013
Defending the National Health Service 6 September 2013
Nurse Staffing Level 4 September 2013
Public Involvement in the NHS 4 September 2013
Public Services – Big Policies 3 September 2013
What should local councillors be doing with and for their NHS? 2 September 2013
Social Care Principles 31 August 2013
Lewishambles and Stafford and the Barricades 29 August 2013
Keep Andy at Health 29 August 2013
Insist on being treated by NHS staff? 9 August 2013
Stafford and Lewisham 8 August 2013
Keogh and Mortality 7 August 2013
FUNDING FOR ADULT SOCIAL CARE 6 August 2013
Future options for the NHS 5 August 2013
Beyond Belief 1 August 2013
Cigarette packaging and international trade – a warning 1 August 2013
Comments on “Disease Management Programmes in Germany” 1 August 2013
Disease Management Programmes in Germany 29 July 2013
The Proposed sale of Plasma Resources UK – Just another privatisation? 7 April 2013
THE CHARTER FOR PUBLIC HEALTH 19 November 1992
A New Kind of Doctor 6 A CRISIS OF ACCOUNTABILITY 17 October 1988
A New Kind of Doctor 5 Measurement of Omission 15 October 1988
A New Kind of Doctor 4 New Ideas in Old Structures 14 October 1988
A New Kind of Doctor 3 Origins And Limits Of Medical Professionalism 10 October 1988
A New Kind of Doctor 2 Liberal Retreat 9 October 1988
A New Kind of Doctor 1 Points of Departure 9 October 1988
A New Kind of Doctor Foreword 9 October 1988
Policy on Mental Health 1988 8 September 1988
Memorial meeting to David Stark Murray 10 May 1978
Mental Health – Crisis or Stagnation 23 March 1975
To measure NHS progress 7 March 1974
Julius Lipetz — a profile 28 November 1971
SMA Weekend School 1971 28 September 1971
A Socialist Policy For Nurses 14 September 1967
The Slaughter Of Bronchitis Can Be Stopped 15 September 1966
Wanted a Socialist Health Service 13 September 1966
Towards A Socialist Health Service 13 September 1965
The Guillebaud Report 10 January 1956
Memorandum on the British Health Centres 7 October 1955
The Future Of The Health Services 7 May 1953
The Friends of the Hospital 26 September 1952
Modern War – its Medical, Social and Ethical Implications 8 May 1952
A National Service for Health 11 September 1948
The Recruitment Of Personnel To The Health Services 2 October 1947
Memorandum On The Nursing Problem 16 September 1947
Memorandum on Employment of Consultants and Specialists for Spens Committee 16 September 1947
The Battle for Health 2 October 1946
Place Of The Social Worker In The Health Service 12 September 1946
The Work Of The Psychiatric Social Worker 16 July 1946
Correspondence between Mr. Hastings and Mr. Bevan 27 March 1946
Memorandum On War Pensions 13 September 1943
Report of Radiographers Group Meeting 14 February 1943
Planning for the under fives 12 September 1940
Homeopathy on the NHS 7 September 2012
The Coalition Mid-term Agreement on health 7 January 2013
The NHS & the Rise in Clinical Negligence Claims 20 August 2012
A Future that Works 19 October 2012
GP Commissioning in Bucks 4 July 2012
The Future of the NHS in England 30 September 2012
The need to tackle Health Inequalities 9 April 2013
Good and bad in the local NHS 6 June 2012
Health inequalities 2012 6 June 2012
Open letter to Lansley from Wycombe Labour Party 18 May 2012
Minimum price for alcohol is a good policy 7 March 2013
Lewisham Hospital – Top Down Reorganisation You Can See From Space 3 February 2013
Healthier Scotland the E-Bulletin of the Socialist Health Association Scotland 23 August 2012
The dangers of cycling 18 August 2012
Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign Goes to Court 13 July 2013
Saving Lewisham Hospital 9 December 2012
Citizens Advice Bureaux In General Practice 6 April 2013
What to do about regulation? 24 June 2013
Increase of life expectancy 23 April 2012
Can we leave industry to lead efforts to improve population health ? 30 April 2013
What can local councillors do to protect patients from government policies on health and social care? 19 October 2012
October 2012 edition of Healthier Scotland 8 October 2012
Challenges facing Nursing 11 April 2013
Thatcher and our NHS 9 April 2013
The case for making health inequalities a top priority 8 May 2013
#Allezwiggo 23 July 2012
Legal status of Public Health Under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 18 May 2012
Healthcare Management and Geriatric Care 30 April 2012
A National Health Service 7 March 2013
What would you list as the key principles for any health and social care service? 6 June 2012
Wither the Socialist Health Association 17 May 2013
Health Checks 22 July 2013
Deprivation and mortality – Where’s the connection? 19 June 2013
21st Century NHS and Social Care – Delivering Integration 6 June 2013
Integrated Care 14 October 2012
Measures to tackle alcohol misuse 11 April 2013
Health and social care service funding 6 June 2012
THE COMMODITY OF CARE 18 July 2013
A Fence or an Ambulance? 1 July 2013
Health and Wellbeing Boards for a new public health 3 July 2013
Is the Longer Lives website useful to local communities? 21 June 2013
Health Education and nanny statism 2 February 2013
The state of care 21 July 2013
An honest debate about rationing medicine? 25 September 2012
Why do the Scots want minimum pricing of alcohol? 12 May 2013
Public Health for 2015 election 10 May 2013
Tackling Health Inequality 10 April 2013
Depression is not a “must have accessory” 11 April 2013
Labour’s NHS Mission 24 June 2013
Doctors back denial of treatment for smokers and the obese 29 April 2012
#healthdebate 1 October 2012
NHS SoS – It’s all the Doctors Fault? 1 July 2013
Lyme Disease – Patients Languish while Facts are Buried 9 June 2013
Labour Party Policy consultation 18 May 2012
Healthier Scotland 13 January 2013
Developing Labour Health Policy 12 March 2012
What Sort of NHS Do We Want? 5 November 2012
Democracy in Health? 23 July 2013
Transparency in public services 16 June 2012
Private Finance Initiative – the future 28 March 2013
Patient Experience 6 June 2012
Communities, power and health 8 February 2013
Foundation Trust Governors Should Use Their Powers 11 October 2012
Patient voices in the new NHS 24 May 2013
Rationing/priority setting 22 May 2013
Economics of healthcare in England and the USA 20 May 2013
Care UK’s self-pay charges 5 April 2013
The Doctor won’t see you now: Patients locked out of Cameron’s NHS 16 March 2013
Cameron’s forgotten patients 14 March 2013
Revealed: Full Extent Of Cameron’s Health Lottery 13 March 2013
Austerity and Health – Economics of a Plan B 29 May 2013
Time for Change? 10 April 2013
Care Bill 26 May 2013
Can we learn something from America? 24 February 2013
NHS For Beginners Syllabus 24 July 2012
The Future of the NHS 2 October 2012
Tory Boy’s Picnic 21 February 2012
The New NHS 5 July 1948
Clinical Networks shredded 10 December 2012
Improving the Health of the Nation; a policy for the NHS and its partners 2012 4 November 2012
Keep Our NHS Postcard 3 July 2012
Building a campaign to save the NHS 16 May 2012
A vision of a National Real Health Service 29 April 2012
Being Paranoid might just be good risk management 21 March 2013
NHS Restoration and Public Health Bill 18 May 2012
Expenditure on health 28 June 2013
Maybe Not a Disaster? 20 April 2013
Private Medical Treatment – numbers 24 November 2012
NHS: a guide through the wreckage 27 April 2012
Interview with Dr Clare Gerada, Chair of Royal College of General Practitioners. 21 May 2013
The NHS but not as we know it 15 December 2012
Can They Read? 4 April 2013
Campaigning and Policy 26 July 2013
Whither the NHS – a critique 21 June 2013
The Way Ahead (according to Irwin) 10 June 2013
NHS Risk Register: West Midlands SHA Briefing 8 16 May 2012
Healthier Scotland 22 June 2013
Another Lost Vote 25 April 2013
Health policy and the NHS: choices for a Labour Government 9 July 2013
Mid Staffs Mortality Data 16 March 2013
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting 2013 10 March 2013
More On Hospital Mortality 10 February 2013
Annual General Meeting 2011 19 March 2011
The 65th birthday of the National Health Service 5 July 2013
Health and Productivity 10 May 2013
Privatising the NHS 22 July 2013
Excess Deaths (Again) 1 June 2013
Frailty: a critical test in reversing a ‘Fragmented Illness Service’ to a ‘National Health Service”? 26 May 2013
Director’s Report 22 May 2013
3246 Needless Deaths 19 July 2013
Healthier Scotland: the Journal 10 April 2013
News from Wales March 2013 23 March 2013
Policy Discussions on Health and Social Care 23 June 2013
Prevention is better than cure 24 February 2013
National Health Action Party Ten Point Plan 10 July 2013
The So-What issue 20 March 2013
Future options for the NHS 10 March 2013
COMPETITION IN THE NHS WILL TRANSFORM CARE, BUT THERE IS MORE WORK TO DO 30 December 2012
The New Care Covenant 18 May 2013
The Labour Party policy making process and health 17 July 2013
Integration 21 April 2013
1997 Labour Party Policy 28 March 2013
We Told You So 23 February 2013
‘Whole-Person Care’ A One Nation approach to health and care for the 21st Century 24 January 2013
Fabian ’13 Conference – ‘Next State’ ‘A New NHS: Repeal The Act, But Then What?’ 14 January 2013
Young Fabian Health Network 12 January 2013
Monitor – Danger! 17 June 2013
(3Ps) Publicly Owned Publicly Provided Publicly Accountable 27 May 2013
Avoidable Death 28 May 2013
Keogh to be Congratulated 16 July 2013
Background to the Keogh Review 15 July 2013
13,000 needless deaths? 15 July 2013
Mortality Investigations 26 February 2013
Protect the inheritance! 11 May 2013
HEALTHWATCH & PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT ASSOCIATION 10 May 2013
Standing Together to Defend the NHS 24 May 2013
Contextual Factors in the NHS in England which are likely to have influenced the Occurrence of the Serious Untoward Events in Mid Staffordshire 30 January 2013
Crisis? What crisis? The A&E Crisis 22 May 2013
Health Service Integration 17 March 2013
Accident Waiting to happen 12 March 2013
Accident and Emergency waiting to happen 2 February 2013
Healthwatch the quiet watchdog 17 June 2013
Not More of the Same – innovation in the NHS 13 February 2013
More Mortality Nonsense 16 July 2013
Lessons from Mid-Staffordshire 20 May 2013
NHS Nursing – under staffed and under pressure 12 March 2013
NHS Culture Arrogance and Bullying 27 February 2013
21st Century Care and Compassion 3 February 2013
Influencing Your Clinical Commissioning Group 2 May 2013
A Parliament for Health: why the NHS needs a big dose of democracy 2 May 2013
We the Patients … 15 February 2013
The NHS’ 65th Birthday 11 July 2013
NHS Policy Options 21 May 2013
The Politics of Social Care 9 July 2012
Now Despairing NHS 1 May 2013
David Cameron’s NHS re-organisation 2 April 2013
CCGWatch 19 March 2013
Broken promises on clinical networks 18 March 2013
A small victory 5 March 2013
A public sector NHS ‘as if people mattered’ 28 February 2013
NEW THREAT TO THE NHS – 5 WAYS YOU CAN HELP 23 February 2013
Roy Lilley’s NHS Emergency Powers Act 1 February 2013
Steer the NHS Cart In The Right Direction Before It Falls Off The Cliff 26 January 2013
Future options for the NHS 11 May 2013
Dreams and Reality 5 March 2013
Keep Campaigning 29 March 2012
What the NHS means to me 29 April 2013
The New NHS 14 February 2013
National Health Service Reorganisation: Learning from History 16 March 1998
Reply to Sean Worth – Competition and Choice in the NHS 5 January 2013
Cost of the Market to the NHS 16 January 2013
Do Markets Kill Patients? 25 June 2013
To Market! To Market! 20 July 2013
A Mixed Economy in the NHS 13 May 2013
The Myth of Privatisation and Choice in Social Care 25 April 2013
Amend in haste, repent at leisure – NHS section 75 saga continues 18 March 2013
Section 75 Regulations Revisited 11 March 2013
EU competition law and the NHS 11 March 2013
Abolish the NHS Internal market 28 February 2013
The Liberal Democrat view of the Competition regulations 28 February 2013
Change and markets in health care 25 February 2013
The real story behind the NHS changes: The US/EU Free Trade Agreement 9 February 2013
Markets Regulation and Ethics 26 January 2013
The dangers of marketisation 24 January 2013
How “comprehensive” is the NHS? Or “Something’s gotta give”? 14 January 2013
Myths and Legends about NHS tendering 11 January 2013
Labour is the party for our NHS 23 January 2013
NHS The way forward 26 April 2013
Public health must lead a public system 12 May 2013
Basic principles of the German health care system 25 July 2013
Zero Hours Contracts in the NHS and Social Care 17 July 2013
Honesty about the NHS 14 July 2013
Reconfiguration – Closing Services 8 June 2013
Key issues concerning the country 1 June 2013
Alas ATOS 25 May 2013
Urgent and Emergency Care 6 May 2013
Patient Voice? 6 April 2013
The End of Our NHS? 31 March 2013
Medical Practitioners Union Conference 2/3/13 16 March 2013
No more crook’s tours to pick up UK benefits, Lilley pledges 7 October 1993
Doing Research on a Budget ? – the Health Voluntary Sector 27 November 2012
The other side of……..the 1970s 28 October 2012

Wildcat - Access to Healthcare - rationing — Access to Healthcare

Are we wasting money on care that patients don’t want?
Britain’s Healthcare Lottery – Channel 4 2006
A code of conduct for private practice: recommended standards of practice for NHS consultants
Doctors back denial of treatment for smokers and the obese 2012
Ex-NHS adviser slams cancer care lottery July 2006
Great Expectations: Achieving a Sustainable Health System ippr 2007
Health Select Committee: The Use of New Medical Technologies within the NHS 2005
An honest debate about rationing medicine? 2012
How much will Herceptin really cost? BMJ (paywall) 2006
Mind the Gap: Sustaining Improvements in the NHS Beyond 2008 – BUPA
Money should be ‘no object’ for NHS, says public August 2006
NHS Rationing : A Guide to Post Code Prescribing in the National Health Service
NICE chairman hits back at critics HSJ 2008 (paywall)
NICE guidance for patients and the public
No one in this country should be denied medical care because of a lack of funds. Ronald Reagan 1964
Oldham Health Commission into Fairness
Paying for statins BMJ Feb 2004 (paywall)
Practice based commissioning
Rationing health care: is it time to set out more clearly what is funded by the NHS? 2012
Should patients be able to pay top-up fees to receive the treatment they want? BMJ 2008 (paywall)
Standing Committee debate on the establishment of NICE 1999
Supply and Demand: Enoch Powell
Swedish experience 2007
Thinking about rationing 2012
Topping up the NHS SHA 2008
Viagra raises profile of health rationing debate David Hunter 1998
The Oregon Health Plan

The Director discussing rationing in Oldham: