Tag: London

Following the Government’s worrying consultation on data use, the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill has now been launched in Parliament by Nadine Dorries and is even more disturbing than expected. In essence, the Government [...]

John Lister, Jacky Davis (eds.). The Merlin Press Limited, Dagenham, 2022 www.merlinpress.co.uk This book should be read by anyone interested in both defending and rebuilding the NHS and in addressing health inequity as a matter [...]

Steve Barclay is the new Health and Social Care Secretary in the Johnson Cabinet. NHS managers were quick to respond: A real nightmare, vindictive, arrogant, a bully, hostile to the NHS and all its works, [...]

by NHS Nurse Holly Johnston and Tom Griffiths, Keep Our NHS Public Prime minister Boris Johnson should have resigned a long time ago, but whoever in his party replaces him will be no better for [...]

‘Bodies of evidence: the butcher surgeon’ shows us why a lack of oversight in private healthcare leaves patients open to dangerous practices ITV’s Bodies of Evidence programme last week highlighted a massive betrayal of trust [...]

See ‘Undercover: Britain’s biggest GP chain’. On 13 June, Panorama was devoted to an investigation of the US company Centene, now the largest provider of General Practitioner services in the UK (next to the NHS) [...]

Dental health is deteriorating and millions of people cannot find an NHS dental practice to take them on as a patient. Together with top up charges for NHS dental treatment and the high cost of [...]

Campaigners outline their fight for essential services On 25th May Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group supported proposals to permanently downgrade Grantham A&E to an Urgent Treatment Centre. This is both unsurprising yet shocking. The changes planned [...]

Violent incidents at GP surgeries have doubled in the last 5 years. Recently, a patient at my surgery stood in the waiting room, shouting at reception staff while waving their facemask around – their aerosols [...]

What the proposed Data Reform Bill could mean for NHS data In recent times the government has become acutely aware of the commercial value of our personal data, especially our sensitive health data, which it [...]