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Scottish party leaders: Commit to fight for our NHS
Open letter to all of Scotland's party leaders
To add your name:
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/scottish-party-leaders-commit-fight-our-nhs
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The Lancet
The effect of health-care privatisation on the quality of care
Summary
Over the past 40 years, many health-care systems that were once publicly owned or financed have moved towards privatising their services, primarily through outsourcing to the private sector. But what has the impact been of privatisation on the quality of care?
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NHS privatisation drive linked to rise in avoidable deaths, study suggests
Outsourcing accelerated by Lansley’s shakeup in 2012 linked to drop in care quality in landmark review
The privatisation of NHS care accelerated by Tory policies a decade ago has corresponded with a decline in quality and “significantly increased” rates of death from treatable causes, the first study of its kind says.
Big Brother aka Palantir may be watching you more closely than you like in the future.
From the bird site via threadreader.
Reverse the Privatisation of the National Health Service (NHS)
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The price of fascism; the return of Victorian era diseases.
‘It is shameful’: why the return of Victorian-era diseases to the UK alarms health experts
There has been a surge in cases of scabies and measles – both highly contagious – as well as rickets and scurvy, conditions we thought had been eradicated. Are public health cuts to blame?
Normal Island News
The government somehow notices everyone needs a dentist
No one knows why they noticed during an election year
After 14 years in power, the UK government has somehow noticed that British people desperately need dentists and don’t much like their teeth falling out due to the unaffordability of private dentistry.
Byline Times.
GPs in England at ‘Breaking Point’ Amid ‘Collapse in Morale’
A significant number of GPs are leaving permanent positions for locum roles or leaving clinical careers altogether, according to a new research by EveryDoctor
Josiah Mortimer
5 February 2024
Primary care doctors in England are feeling “despondent” and feel unable to provide adequate care given the current pressures on workloads and funding, Byline Times has been told.
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/02/05/gps-in-england-at-breaking-point-amid-collapse-in-morale/?
Normal Island News
Government reducing NHS queues by not letting you see a doctor
This is an ingenious move
If you’re one of the 7 million people worried you are going to die waiting for hospital treatment, I have exciting news: the government is offering you the chance to skip the NHS queue like Catherine and Charles by not using the NHS!
Sunak’s missed targets leave NHS facing catastrophic winter crisis
Revealed: the PM’s pledges in January to improve waiting times and bed numbers are behind schedule, according to official data
The NHS is facing another catastrophic winter crisis because Rishi Sunak is failing to meet key targets he set last January for improving emergency care, leaving patients facing more delays for treatment during the busiest months, the Observer can reveal.
The pharmaceutical industry is make a killing out of our NHS. In the last decade alone, big pharma made £12 billion of 'excess profits' from selling just 10 drugs to the NHS.
But big pharma’s NHS profiteering isn’t stopping there. Right now they are lobbying the government to rip up a key pricing deal which keeps big pharma greed in check, by capping the amount that the NHS has to pay for medicines.
Petition:
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/big-pharma-is-rinsing-the-nhs-take-action?source=direct_link&
One of Tories’ biggest ever donors profited from £135m of NHS contracts
Exclusive: Frank Hester, who gave Rishi Sunak’s party £5m this summer, is thought to have made huge sums from DHSC deals
His company, the Phoenix Partnership (TPP), paid out more than £20m in dividends between 2019 and 2022, with Hester the only shareholder.
The Sunday Times has just blown a hole through the narrative that the private sector can help our NHS.
At the weekend, they published a MASSIVE story exposing the fact that private healthcare puts profits before people.
We know that every politician reads The Times. That is why it is such a big deal that they are exposing what’s wrong with giving private companies a role in our healthcare.
Petition:
Starmer: Reinstate the NHS as a fully public service
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/starmer-reinstate-the-nhs-fully-public-service
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Sign the petition! Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak: We Demand a Plan for the NHS RAAC
We are writing to Rishi Sunak to express our deep concerns about reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) and the potential dangers it poses to both NHS patients and staff. There have been repeated warnings over a number of years, and the government has failed to take the action required to rectify the situation.
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/we-demand-a-plan-for-the-nhs-raac?source=direct_link&
openDemocracy
he former head of MI6 introduced Palantir to a top government official in the Cabinet Office a year before the US spy tech firm won a £27m contract with the department.
openDemocracy can reveal that Sir John Sawers set up a meeting between Palantir’s CEO and the Cabinet Office permanent secretary, John Manzoni, in 2019, when the company was pitching for new business.
Palantir went on to win a data deal
Harry's Last Stand
Junior Doctors and Consultants are striking for more than just wages. They are striking for your right to timely, state of the art public healthcare.
Free at the point of use, universal public healthcare was once democracy’s strongest castle wall. It protected, for decades, our civilisation from the predatory nature of oligarchic capitalism.
#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith
#JohnSmith #NHSSOS #health #fascism #HealthCare
We have a world class NHS model. The NHS is not a business model. It is a Not For Profit Welfare Model for the whole of UK whether rich or poor. It is funded through our National Insurance Contributions every month. Our Employers pay their share for employing us too. This collective money goes to the NHS to provide the services.
Private firm linked to No 10 adviser handed NHS waiting lists contract
Labour accuses Rishi Sunak of possible conflict of interest as former client of Bill Morgan chosen to run diagnostic centres
Rishi Sunak is facing questions over a possible conflict of interest after it emerged that a private healthcare firm handed a government contract to reduce regional NHS waiting lists is linked to a No 10 policy adviser.
