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  • 25 Jan 2015
    Trident poses the question for us: what is security?

    What is security?

    If your family is going hungry because your benefits have been cut, security might mean knowing that you have enough to eat. But Prime Minister David Cameron wants to make you secure by renewing the Trident nuclear weapons system at a cost of £100 billion.

  • 23 Jan 2015
    Alternative parties pledge to defend NHS across Britain

    The National Health Action Party has welcomed a statement by the SNP that it would be ready to vote on English health laws and repeal privatisation at Westminster.

  • 23 Jan 2015
    As hospitals struggle, NHS tops voter concerns

    The NHS is now the greatest concern by far for UK voters, according to the results of a Guardian/ICM poll published on 20 January 2015.

  • 16 Dec 2014
    Pressure on TTIP increases as over a million sign petition

    Over a million people throughout the European Union have signed a petition against the TTIP privatisation trade agreement with the USA.

  • 13 Dec 2014
    999 Convention for the NHS: common frailty, shared humanity

    There are few of us who either enter or leave this world without its presence. In between, the NHS is there for broken bones, depression, ingrowing toenails, heart attacks, cancer and all the diverse pain, fear and suffering of our lives' journeys.

  • 10 Oct 2014
    UKIP leader accused of 'ignorance' on HIV, migration and health

    Nigel Farage has been accused of peddling prejudice masquerading as fact in recent comments about migrants with HIV and so-called 'health tourists'.

  • 8 Oct 2014
    NHS supplier 'risking complicity' in nine US executions

    A major NHS supplier is at risk of becoming involved in American executions, after Alabama altered its lethal injection ‘cocktail’.

  • 7 Oct 2014
    Running for the future: the world we are trying to build
    When my twin sister and I were very sick with the measles, aged six, it didn’t even occur to me that a home visit from the doctor was anything less than our due. I bet it occurred to my parents though. Having grown up in a world without the NHS, I bet they were grateful that they didn’t have to think about how to pay the doctor for his trouble, or for the medicines he left that helped relieve our symptoms and reduce the fever that was undoubtedly causing them concern.
  • 3 Sep 2014
    'Save Our NHS' banner hung from Westminster Bridge

    Opponents of National Health Service privatisation have today hung a banner from Westminster Bridge in central London reading “Save Our NHS”.

  • 22 Jul 2014
    The NHS and the Scottish referendum

    The consequences of a No vote in September’s independence referendum can be envisaged no more sharply than through the lens of the NHS in Scotland, says Dr Willie Wilson, setting out the reasons why a Yes vote in the 18 September 2014 referendum is vital for the sake of its 158,000 workers and for the benefit of everyone in Scotland who needs or will need health services free at the point of need.