Driving GPs into industrial action
The BMA have begun to ballot GPs in response to the Tower Hamlets motion passed …
NHS Continuing Healthcare funding: anomalous, irregular, and often baffling
The National Audit Office (NAO) investigation into NHS continuing healthcare funding published on 5 July 2017 shines …
Speech on child health
Delivered to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health 11 July 2017 Good morning and …
Free abortions in England will not remove the fundamental injustice Northern Irish women suffer
An announcement by Justine Greening, Minister for Women and Equalities, on 29 June indicated that …
Accountable Care Systems – Flavour of the Month
The always excellent ‘Health Service Journal’ (HSJ) analysed potential care reforms under a future Conservative …
“Why should the people wait any longer?”
How Labour built the NHS On the 5th July 1948, a young girl was admitted …
Our NHS is 69 years old today – seven years of the Tories has left it in crisis
On this day, 69 years ago, Aneurin Bevan founded Labour’s proudest achievement – the National …
The creeping privatisation of healthcare
Privatisation in its various guises is “spreading across Europe’s health services like a rash”, writes John …
The Politics of Poverty
Poverty in the UK is a serious problem, and it is a problem that is …
Daily Mail attacks private medicine
We are so used to the attacks on the NHS from the Daily Mail that …