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The health and social care visa route was introduced in August 2020 as a response to labour shortages after Brexit and the COVID pandemic. Now, the independent chief inspector of …
How visas for social care workers may be exacerbating exploitation in the sector Read More
Just weeks after a damning survey revealed that less than a quarter of people are still satisfied with the NHS, a new poll has found that just more than a …
The NHS is Now So Under-Pressure People Want to Pay for Treatment, Poll Reveals Read More
The government handed almost half a billion pounds to private healthcare companies to fix the NHS backlog last year, yet is still struggling to treat any more patients than it …
NHS paid private firms £500m to ‘ease backlog’. Fewer patients got seen Read More
A lobbying group led by Conservative MPs and peers has released a report recommending the further privatisation of the NHS while being funded by private health companies, Byline Times can reveal. …
MPs Advocate for NHS Privatisation While Being Funded by Private Health Firms Read More
Seattle-based Amazon on Thursday announced its purchase of established primary health care provider One Medical. The deal reportedly cost Amazon $3.9 billion in cash ($18 per share / $76.8 premium). This would …
Amazon buys into health care market for $3.9 billion cash Read More
After coming down with COVID-19 in December, Vinicio Sánchez visited three health centres in a single day. At the first, a clinic in the south of Ecuadorian capital, Quito, he …
How corruption has added to Latin America’s COVID death toll Read More