In this guest article, highly-respected medic and campaigner Dr Kailash Chand OBE exposes the latest fallacy being pushed by the media: that NHS England is planning to ‘scrap laws driving […]
Last week the BBC’s Newsnight programme broadcast an unchallenged opinion piece by opaquely-funded think-tank the IEA, which routinely promotes ‘reform’ of the NHS that appears to be all about privatisation […]
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt – inexplicably to many observers – not only survived Theresa May’s last Cabinet reshuffle, but gained an expanded title. NHS-watchers were horrified that the man on […]
Health and Social Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt provoked outrage and derision last year with his attempt to cast Professor Stephen Hawking – a man the intellectual superior of almost everyone […]
Professor Stephen Hawking, the intellectual giant of theoretical physics who confounded medical expectation and campaigned for the NHS, has died aged seventy-six. This morning, the BBC’s John Humphrys, on his […]
Labour’s new video about our NHS, which was shown on ITV, BBC and online this evening, is an incredibly powerful account by health professionals of the NHS and what it’s […]
The winter crisis continues to expose the extent of under-resourcing of the NHS by a government many believe wants to see it collapse in order to accelerate its replacement by an […]
As the SKWAWKBOX has covered, the Tories’ latest ‘top-down reorganisation‘ of the NHS involves parceling our health service into ‘Accountable Care Organisations’ (ACOs), along similar lines to the hugely inefficient […]
The Establishment continues to pay lip-service to the idea of the NHS, even while undertaking a massive, americanising stealth-reorganisation that health experts and campaigners view as hugely damaging and ultimately […]
Jeremy Hunt is in the middle of an enormous stealth-reorganisation of the NHS into ACOs (accountable care organisations), modelled along the lines of the hugely inefficient US healthcare system. According […]