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  • 22 Oct 2013
    The truth behind headlines about ‘health tourism’

    “Health tourism: the TRUE cost”: “Foreigners using NHS cost Britain up to £2 BILLION a year, government reveals – 100 times more than previously claimed” declares a Daily Mail headline. Yet the reality is very different, and there is little evidence that many people visit the UK for the purpose of getting free medical treatment.

  • 18 Oct 2013
    Health tourism and the moral justification for selfishness

    Have we ever had a government with so little regard for truth or accuracy? The tendency for senior Conservatives to routinely ‘misrepresent’ statistics for their own political ends, or make decisions and statements based on ‘feelings’ has developed apace over the past few years. Iain Duncan Smith has been rebuked by the UK Statistics Authority for this habit, as has Grant Shapps, Conservative Party Chairman.

  • 11 Oct 2013
    Would NHS break-up really improve hospital safety?

    The type of problems at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust in England – where care failings affected patient safety and dignity – would not have happened in an enterprise part-owned by employees, according to care minister Norman Lamb. Yet the drive to remove more health services from NHS control may seriously harm patients.

  • 29 Sep 2013
    NHS in England and Wales 'faces the gravest crisis in its history'

    Speaking today at the Save Our NHS rally in Manchester, TUC leader Frances O'Grady will say that the NHS faces the gravest crisis since it was established.

  • 20 Sep 2013
    Northern Public Services Alliance defends NHS in England and Wales

    This Saturday (21 September) the NHS Built to Care conference and rally, organised by the Northern Public Service Alliance, will take place at County Hall in Durham.

  • 2 Aug 2013
    Making foreigners unwelcome, charging for NHS care

    Tighter restrictions on free National Health Service care, supposedly aimed at ‘health tourists’, would hit many UK taxpayers who are foreign. The proposed changes might also open the door to making citizens pay at a later date, and could cause grave social and economic harm.

  • 1 Aug 2013
    Lewisham hospital backers hail court win against 'unlawful' closures

    Campaigners have hailed an "incredible" court decision that the government's attempts to destroy casualty and maternity services at Lewisham Hospital are unlawful.

  • 25 Jul 2013
    TUC to organise 'Save Our NHS' rally at Conservative Party conference

    Thousands of trade unionists will bring their opposition to austerity to the opening Sunday of the Conservative Party conference.in September

  • 15 Jul 2013
    Just Peace Pilgrims arrive in London

    The Just Peace Pilgrims arrive in London this week, bringing the message that the £100bn cost of Trident would be better spent on funding essential human needs.

  • 7 May 2013
    The BBC: Promoting UKIP and ignoring NHS privatisation

    When the House of Lords recently passed Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Bill, there was no coverage on BBC News. The significance and contentiousness of this legislation, which opens the NHS up to a free market in healthcare, was explained here by Savi Hensman.