Five months trapped in a hospital bed has shown me how badly austerity and privatisation have affected servicesOver the summer, the NHS quietly saved my life several times. On each occasion, it caught a rapid worsening of my underlying condition, allow…
McDonnell says voters should not trust Trump’s claims that NHS will not be part of US deal The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, has warned the public not to trust Donald Trump’s assurance that the NHS will not form part of post-Brexit trade deals as …
This election will decide the matter: do we in Britain still want a socialised system, or one that puts a price good health?As a GP working in London, it is not uncommon for me to hear people say they can’t afford prescription charges, or that they don…
Stuart Rennison-Price, Virgin Care’s chief operating officer, responds to a recent article about NHS cutsPolly Toynbee writes that we at Virgin Care sued the NHS when we were “denied the chance to tender for profitable contracts” (These brutal cuts to …
Proposal expected to feature in Queen’s speech after spending on private firms passes £9bnPrivatisation of NHS care will be significantly curbed under confidential plans that health service bosses expect Downing Street to include in the Queen’s speech …
Facts on the ground, such as private companies’ 44% share of child mental health spending, make a mockery of ministers’ promisesThe gap between what the government is saying about the NHS and what is actually happening is growing. When the health secre…
Record 2018 total comes after health secretary pledged no privatisation on his watchThe amount of the NHS budget going to private healthcare firms has reached unprecedented levels, despite the health secretary’s pledge to roll back outsourcing of patie…
Readers respond to Donald Trump’s comment that he wants the NHS ‘on the table’ in any future trade negotiationsMy late mother trained as a nurse in Glasgow in the 1940s and witnessed the birth of the NHS. Having grown up in a village in rural Scotland …
Guardian readers respond to Trump’s state visitDecades ago a medical consultant told me he had been at a dinner with a (then) Tory party grandee. No doubt after his tongue had been loosened by imbibing, the grandee told my friend that: “We are going to…
The time has come for the English to demand our birthright, access to a universal, comprehensive, local health service, writes Christine Hyde. And Bob Epton reflects on money well spentI am greatly saddened to read of the distress caused to a woman wit…
Oxfordshire councillors tell health secretary contract for InHealth endangers patientsNHS bosses stand accused of endangering patients, “flagrant” lawbreaking and intimidating a leading hospital trust over their controversial privatisation of cancer sc…
Creeping privatisation is rolling back the state to create a new, absolutist bureaucracy that destroys efficiencyMy life was saved last year by the Churchill Hospital in Oxford, through a skilful procedure to remove a cancer from my body. Now I will ne…
Health secretary to review private healthcare plan local MP calls ‘murky and opaque’The health secretary has been called in to settle a row over a “murky and opaque” plan to privatise a key element of cancer treatment currently handled by one of Englan…
PET-CT scanners to remain at Churchill hospital, Oxford, and be operated by NHS staffNHS bosses have made a significant U-turn over plans to privatise cancer scanning services after outcry from MPs, doctors and patients.The rethink means the two scanne…
Outsourced service’s blunders led to nearly 50,000 women not receiving vital informationNHS chiefs are bringing the cervical screening service back in-house after expressing dissatisfaction at the way it has been performing.The chief executive of NHS E…
An overstretched NHS is being forced to pick up the pieces when private care homes go bust, writes Gillian DalleyOne hundred care home operators are reported as going out of business last year, and over 400 in the past five years (Collapse of care home…
Concerns over the privatisation of cancer scanning services at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford are raised by Rosie Herring and Anita HighamWe are writing as elected public governors of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, to clarify some …
Doctors express disgust after eminent hospital fails to win tender for PET-CT servicesNHS chiefs are pushing through plans to let private companies take over scanning services that are vital in treating cancer patients, having told ministers last week …
Last week saw the death knell for reforms of the NHS, probation service and the armyThe Tredegar Workmen’s Medical Aid Society was a mini self-help medical co-operative established in the late 19th century on the principle that anyone in Tredegar shoul…
NHS England calls for end to rules under which firms have won £10.5bn of contractsNHS bosses have urged ministers to scrap controversial legislation that has led to widespread privatisation of healthcare as part of a major revamp of the health service….
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