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Pic Paul Mattsson
7 March 2012
A Guardian/ICM poll has shown that most people don't want it. The Royal College of Nursing, other health colleges, health sections of unions Unison, Unite and GMB, academics and nine out of ten hospital doctors all oppose it
22 February 2012
Gateshead: Children's healthcare under threat
In Gateshead the Primary Care Trust (PCT) is threatening to end all children's in-patient services within the borough in cases where over 23 hours of care is needed, writes Elaine Brunskill.
22 February 2012
Romania: Protest movement topples the government
In the middle of January, several countrywide protests stopped Romanian president Basescu's draconian healthcare 'reform' from being enacted, writes Victor Cosmin, Romania.
Public Health not private wealth - protest against privatisation in the NHS 2011, photo by Paul Mattsson
18 January 2012
Keep private vultures out of our NHS!
Breast implant scandal exposes private healthcare: The Health and Social Care Bill, currently working its way through Parliament, is a huge threat to our NHS, writes Sue Powell.
Southern Cross Healthcare's private residential home care in crisis, photo B Severn
2 June 2011
Southern Cross - Social care on the brink
Southern Cross Healthcare is on the brink of collapse. This company provides residential care to 31,000 people and has 44,000 employees
Death and privatisation in the NHS, photo Paul Mattsson
9 September 2010
Fighting for the health service
The new government's health policy was put forward in July 2010 in the white paper Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS, writes David Pelsall.
29 July 2009
"It's great to have you back" were the words of one domestic worker greeting Unison shop steward Errol Maison as she clasped and hugged him on his return to work on 7 July...
25 November 2008
Top-up payments for private health care another step towards two-tier National Health
THE GOVERNMENT recently decided to let patients in England 'top-up' their NHS care with payments for private treatments not available on the NHS, writes Jackie Grunsell, Save Huddersfield NHS councillor.
17 September 2008
Interview with Cindy Sheehan: "Some kind of populist uprising needs to happen"
WHEN CINDY Sheehan's son, Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, was killed in Iraq in 2004, she quickly became one of the country's most high-profile anti-war activists...
30 January 2008
US elections: The Barack Obama mirage
IT SEEMS on the cusp of being real. For the first time in the US, an African American - Barack Obama of the Democratic Party - has a serious chance of being... By Teddy Shibabaw, Socialist Alternative (CWI, USA)
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