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The NHS is Now So Under-Pressure People Want to Pay for Treatment, Poll Reveals

20/04/2024 - Leave a Comment

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 …

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UK strikes energy deal with firm linked to Putin’s gas exports

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LONDON — U.K. hospitals, town halls and government departments will be heated via a massive energy deal with a subsidiary of a firm still importing Russian gas to Europe — …

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Rishi Sunak hikes public sector pay — but the devil’s in the details

14/07/2023 - Leave a Comment

LONDON — Rishi Sunak’s finally splashing the cash. But will his latest round of pay rises be enough to calm restive public sector workers? On Thursday the U.K. prime minister …

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NHS paid private firms £500m to ‘ease backlog’. Fewer patients got seen

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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 …

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Five political decisions that drove the NHS to the brink

13/01/2023 - Leave a Comment

Rishi Sunak was once again forced to deny that the NHS is facing a crisis this weekend, claiming that the service is merely “under pressure”.  The prime minister has continued …

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Long covid

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Dr Hanna Szymborska asks what does Sunak’s labour market policy mean for women? Ever since the first national lockdown was imposed in March 2020, rising unemployment has been one of …

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​The NHS is a society rather than an economy

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If markets or management aren’t the remedy to the NHS mess, what is? Valerie Iles sees an answer coming from unexpected quarters. In the previous issue of Mint Magazine Laurie …

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There has always been an alternative

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The NHS crisis is a crisis of neoliberalism writes Laurie Laybourn-Langton This year, the National Health Service turns seventy, finding itself in a world radically different to that which welcomed …

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Your word is your bond

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Blott: “I didn’t choose glue so much as it chose me.” Tony Blott runs a glue supply company having directed an NHS trust. He sees little difference in many ways …

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