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HEALTH WORKERS AT THE LIMIT

A recent survey by Unison, one of the key NHS unions, shows that health workers are now routinely facing exhaustion and burnout. With the continuing pandemic and the growing backlog of patients needing treatment plus normal read more…

Posted On : 10th January 2022 Published By : merrilauthor
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AMBULANCE SERVICES: almost unsustainable pressure

Winter is always a difficult time for the NHS. But thanks to the knock-on effects of Covid, the limits of the NHS capacity are only too obvious. Nowhere are the NHS problems more exposed than in read more…

Posted On : 24th November 2021 Published By : merrilauthor
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  • Campaigns

AMBULANCE STATIONS SAVED FOR NOW…

Malcolm Alexander, Chair of the Patients’ Forum for the London Ambulance Service, has brought HAFSON some welcome news. 4/11/21 The London Ambulance Services plan to close 68 ambulance stations and replace them by 18 super-hubs across read more…

Posted On : 8th November 2021 Published By : merrilauthor
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  • Campaigns

BACK INTO THE DANGER ZONE

Covid-19 is pushing us back into a bad place. Case numbers are now hitting over 40,000 cases per day and the number of deaths, sadly, are also moving upwards. This should not be happening. Early this read more…

Posted On : 20th October 2021 Published By : merrilauthor
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FAILURE AFTER FAILURE: Boris Johnson’s cosy version of events dismantled by report

Media coverage of the Commons’ Covid Report tore away Boris’s defence of his government’s handling of the Covid Crisis. ITV highlighted multiple incompetencies and serious errors and delays that cost lives; Sky said this was ‘A read more…

Posted On : 13th October 2021 Published By : merrilauthor
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Forget the spin – new English NHS bill is all about cutting our right to healthcare

Caroline Molloy, Editor of Open Democracy UK and OurNHS journalist, writes about the dangers of the new NHS Bill which has just its 2nd reading in parliament. If the bill passes without key amendments, it will read more…

Posted On : 20th July 2021 Published By : merrilauthor
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Health and Care Bill 2021-22: Key points and questions for the second reading, 14 July 2021

From Prof Allyson M. Pollock and Peter Roderick The Health and Care Bill which was introduced in the House of Commons on 6 July 2021 is a major reorganisation of the NHS in England which will complete the read more…

Posted On : 20th July 2021 Published By : merrilauthor
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  • Disability

Ministers are forcing vulnerable people to shield again – with no support this time

Frances Ryan, prominent disability campaigner and writer, points out in The Guardian (18.7.21) that what some call Freedom Day is anything but for many disabled people. Disabled people have died in appalling numbers during the pandemic and read more…

Posted On : 20th July 2021 Published By : merrilauthor
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NHS data grab delayed by three months

Patients now have until September to opt out of plans to share GP medical records with third parties. HAFSON agrees with journalist Tammy Lovell that the victory in delaying the NHS data grab is both welcome read more…

Posted On : 14th June 2021 Published By : merrilauthor
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Legal threat sharpens over UK government plans to harvest patient data from GPs

openDemocracy and campaigners threaten injunction over the largest seizure of personal medical records in NHS history, as backlash mounts – as Caroline Molloy of OpenDemocracy writes on 4 June 2021. Today lawyers acting for openDemocracy and read more…

Posted On : 6th June 2021 Published By : merrilauthor

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