14 July 2021

Scrap the privatising health and care bill

For a publicly funded, democratically run, NHS: The Tories are in the process of forcing their new health and care bill through parliament, despite opposition from NHS campaigners and trade unionists

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30 June 2021

Readers' comments

In these days of deskilling and constant attacks on workers' pay and conditions, it came as an unusual surprise when our shift supervisor informed us that management would like to thank us for our efforts in hitting the monthly budget for the first time ever (production is still in its early stages

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30 June 2021

We don't want a USA-style healthcare system

The health scrutiny committee on Labour-led Wakefield Council returned on 24 June for its first physical meeting since the Covid outbreak.

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23 June 2021

Leicester private healthcare tragedy

Private healthcare is embedded in the provision of accident and emergency treatment at the Leicester Royal Infirmary

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16 June 2021

Women's health matters

The Cumberlege review last year was just one example of the devastating impact of the 'gender health gap'

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28 April 2021

Private sector is stealing the NHS

The private health sector is busy gobbling up NHS money and greedily seeking more. The privatisation of the NHS is gathering pace even though the private sector has failed to deliver on test and trace

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7 April 2021

London: #BuhariMustGo protests are back

'Hypocrisy' was probably the most used word on the recent #BuhariMustGo protests in London.

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17 February 2021

Boot private companies out of our NHS

Despite the recently leaked government draft white paper suggesting reversing "controversial privatisation policies" introduced in 2012, private healthcare operators continue to gorge on the NHS.

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27 January 2021

Overwhelmed, underfunded, underpaid, and still fighting for safe PPE

On the front line we're seeing whole wards being wiped out with staff sickness. In my own trust, at the start of January, there was approximately 9% staff absence.

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20 January 2021

On the NHS front line

It's so busy. There are so many patients. For weeks now there have been more Covid patients than there were in the first wave. Almost every ward has been given over to treating Covid now.

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6 January 2021

Protect the NHS - Funding, Pay, PPE, Public ownership

The Tory government's plea to "protect the NHS" is rank hypocrisy.

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2 December 2020

Review: Friedrich Engels - Condition of the working class in England

The second in our series on socialist pioneer Friedrich Engels, on the 200th anniversary of his birth. Socialist Party national committee member Helen Pattison reviews one of the first books he wrote.

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28 October 2020

Boots launches £120, 12-minute Covid test

One hundred and twenty pounds for a test with Boots. Boots, which is still avoiding millions in tax every year. Boots, which charged the NHS £2,000 per pot of hand cream.

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5 August 2020

'First you clap us then you slap us'

Hundreds of healthcare workers marched from St Thomas' hospital in London to 10 Downing Street

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5 August 2020

Cuba: Covid-19 and the 60-year-old embargo

Cuba has one of the lowest Covid-19 death rates in the world - 0.8 per 100,000, compared to 67 in the UK and 44.1 in the US

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8 July 2020

Black Lives Matter - the fight is not over

Hundreds gathered for a Black Lives Matter protest on 5 July. Given it was the anniversary of the opening of the NHS, the protest started with a round of applause for the NHS, and all the healthcare workers

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13 May 2020

The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it "fanned the flames of revolt"

Laura Spinney's book on the 1918 flu pandemic, first published in 2017, is now being widely read

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22 April 2020

US private healthcare system in meltdown

Like in the UK, the coronavirus pandemic in the USA has resulted in the postponement or cancellation of non-urgent surgery in hospitals

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18 March 2020

United States: private healthcare exposed as Trump throws money at markets

Capitalism and the political duopoly of the Democratic and Republican parties are to blame for the US's incompetent response to Covid-19

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12 February 2020

Unnecessary surgery scandal shows need for democratic control of NHS

It is shocking that a doctor, breast surgeon Ian Paterson, subjected more than 1,000 patients, mainly women, to unnecessary and damaging operations over 14 years.

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