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national health service

23 Mar 2013

Sacrifice or change? The NHS and health after Mid Staffs

A change of heart, procedure, policy and resources is needed to make health for all a priority in Britain, says Savitri Hensman, looking at the lessons that need to be learned from Mid Staffs and beyond.
18 Feb 2013

Bishops say marketisation of NHS has gone too far

The marketisation of the health service "has gone too far", two Church of England bishops have suggested, following the latest scandal.
29 Jan 2013

Influential chief of GPs body backs move to keep healthcare free

Professor Clare Gerada, chair of the influential Royal College of General Practitioners, has backed crossbench peer Lord Owen's 'reinstate the NHS' Bill.
29 Jan 2013

Welcome for new Bill to 'reinstate' the National Health Service

The National Health Action party, set up to work against the destruction of the NHS, has welcomed Lord David Owen’s NHS 'Re-instatement' Bill.
28 Jan 2013

Churches join new NHS-backed organ and blood donation drive

A groundbreaking new campaign calling on churches to increase the number of blood and organ donors in the UK has been launched today.
29 Dec 2012

'Tough choices', Cabinet paper revelations, and the assault on welfare

UK government Cabinet papers from 1982, now released under the 30-year disclosure rule, confirm that the dismantling of the welfare state, the privatisation of the NHS and the savage cutting of public services has been a long-held ambition of the Conservative party.
15 Nov 2012

English NHS 'sleepwalking into crisis' with cuts, say nurses

The NHS in England is "sleepwalking into a crisis" with more than 61,000 frontline posts destined for the axe, says the Royal College of Nursing.
11 Feb 2012

Hazards of the current NHS reform

Organisations of health professionals have been lining up to denounce the Health and Social Care Bill. In view of the potential hazards to patients arising from reforms to the National Health Service in England, it is not hard to understand why.
13 Jan 2012

Vast majority of GPs want the Health and Social Care Bill scrapped

GPs have overwhelmingly backed moves for government's Health and Social Care Bill - which many see as a privatisation move - to be scrapped.
14 Nov 2011

Privatisation of NHS hospital causes alarm over government plans

The government’s decision to allow a private company to take over a public hospital for the first time in the history of the NHS has attracted widespread anger.

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