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 [...]
Jul
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 [...]
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 [...]
Jul
NHS data grab delayed by three months
Patients now have until September to opt out of plans to share GP medical records [...]
Jun
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 [...]
Jun
WE’RE NOT ALL IN THIS TOGETHER … (Interview Part 1)
Covid has not gone away. On June 21 covid-related restrictions may (or may not) be [...]
Jun
DISABILITY IN HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM… Interview Part 2.
Tara and Jim spoke about how the approach of H&F Council is much different from [...]
Jun
SELF-SERVING PM STALLS COVID INQUIRY FINDINGS UNTIL AFTER ELECTION
(From The Mirror, 12 May 2021) Those who have lost loved ones to the virus [...]
May
QUEENS SPEECH: National Pensioners Convention (NPC) condemns missed social care opportunity
NPC calls for honest debate on National Care Service Queen’s Speech delay on social care [...]
May
ONE IN FOUR SAY MENTAL HEALTH WORSENED AFTER RECEIVING NHS TREATMENT REMOTELY – people need a choice in how they receive mental health support
Mind’s survey of almost 2,000 people reveals that more than one in three (35 per [...]
May