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…
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…
Tara and Jim spoke about how the approach of H&F Council is much different from that of most other councils and could offer a model for other councils to rethink their relationship to their disabled residents. read more…
(From The Mirror, 12 May 2021) Those who have lost loved ones to the virus are rightly furious the Prime Minister has delayed this inquiry until the spring of 2022 – not for the first time read more…
NPC calls for honest debate on National Care Service Queen’s Speech delay on social care reform makes way for damaging Health & Care Bill The National Pensioners’ Convention is disappointed but not surprised by the Government’s read more…
Mind’s survey of almost 2,000 people reveals that more than one in three (35 per cent) found support from NHS mental health services given over the phone or online difficult to use, and one in four read more…
A profiteering US health insurance company is grabbing our NHS GP surgeries. Under cover of Covid 19 … • A UK subsidiary of the giant US Centene Corporation has bought up 49 London GP practices read more…
Campaigners claim the takeover happened secretively – HAFSON speaks with local reporter, Owen Sheppard. (This article is from My London on 12 March 2021) Nine GP practices in West London have quietly come under the control of a read more…
From Rachel Clarke (The Guardian, 5th March 2021) Rachel Clarke is a palliative care doctor and the author of Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic We’ve had a traumatic year and lost patients read more…
NHS chiefs have warned they will have to start cutting patient care unless the Chancellor finds £8 billion for extra Covid costs. Details are emerging of how badly damaged the NHS already is toward the end read more…
