By Samatha Wathen – Press and Media Officer for Keep Our NHS Public (KONP) Last weekend, Shadow Health Secretary Wes…
NHS England has just launched a public consultation on the future for GPs. You may never see any evidence of…
American health giant UnitedHealth made occasional unsuccessful forays into primary care in the UK in the 2000s, and more recently…
By Ollie Jupes (the pseudonym of a retired NHS dental practitioner) Imagine for a moment, that you are a freelance…
RICHARD BOURNE takes a look at the policies that were announced from the platforms at the Labour Party conference in…
While some campaigners and politicians on the British left remain convinced that the NHS constantly faces the threat of “Americanisation”…
A barrage of publicity surrounded the publication last week of the long-awaited report of Rishi Sunak’s 17-strong “taskforce” on elective…
Contributor: Martin Shelley Seven years ago a widely respected public health expert wrote a blog addressing what he described as “the thorny issue of perverse incentives” that were undermining prevention and early intervention strategies within the NHS. Promoting the case for the adoption of a system-wide approach, Brian Ferguson noted, “It would be difficult to
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Contributor: John Lister The NHS was set up to be a universal health service, covering the whole population, providing care according to clinical need, not ability to pay, and funded from general taxation. Resources have never matched the level of demand for care, and there has always been a waiting list for some forms of
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Contributor: John Lister Every healthcare system worldwide, including the NHS, will have to deal with rising costs over the coming years due to a rise in chronic disease and in the proportion of older people in the population. These escalating costs always prompt the question - can we afford the NHS? Most often from people
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