Tories to RETRY bill to make you pay for your NHS Fri 15 June
As the SKWAWKBOX covered on Friday, Tory MPs made an attempt to pass a bill yesterday to allow NHS patients to be charged for their treatment – a move described […]
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“Can we exchange this pr**k for #Hawking?” #Hunt dismantled by Twitter for crass ‘tribute’
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 […]
NHS rationing endemic in England
As attention has focused on the NHS winter crisis, the media has rarely pointed out that the health service in England is in year-round crisis. The chart below shows the […]
NHS mental health “early intervention” running on HALF staffing – costing lives and money
There is good evidence that Early Intervention (EI) services in mental health care save lives and money. EI services contribute towards reducing suicide rates from 15% to 1% when compared […]
Cancelled NHS ops highest for 24yrs – BEFORE January’s blanket cancellation
The latest NHS England performance statistics show that the number of ‘elective’, ie. non-emergency, operations cancelled in our health service in the third quarter (Oct-Dec) of the year reached the highest […]
NHS A&E performance WORST on record – in spite of FALL in demand
Small wonder that Jeremy Hunt has abandoned reporting of the waiting-time performance of our NHS Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments until at least April next year. The latest – and […]
Govt abandons A&E waiting-time target. MSM near-silent
The Health Service Journal has reported that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has scrapped the measurement of NHS Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments until April 2019 – amid the biggest NHS winter crisis in years. […]
Video: doctor speaks powerfully – “the humanity is being sucked out of our NHS”
Lauren Gavaghan is a doctor, psychiatrist and well-known NHS campaigner. On Thursday evening she spoke movingly to a mass gathering of Labour NHS campaigners about the suffering and beauty she […]
Figures show: no other govt has invested less additional cash in NHS than this
The government’s fall-back when challenged over its failure on the NHS, as worse winter crisis follows winter crisis, is to fall back on its claim that it has ‘put more […]
UKSA letter and BBC News video show scale of NHS crisis UNDER-reported
A BBC News video report today from North Tees Hospital showed the strain under which the NHS has been placed in the so-called ‘winter crisis’. Funding under the Tories is […]