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The Case for a Universal Public Health Service

WEBThe Case for a Universal Public Health Service. By. Christopher Thomas. Covid has proved beyond doubt that health is linked to social factors like housing, work …

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A History of NHS Privatisation

WEBHealth unions have continued to mobilise NHS staff to oppose outsourcing of services to ‘wholly owned companies’, while contractors’ staff have waged campaigns, …

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The NHS Can’t Take Austerity 2.0

WEBThe Commons Health and Care Committee have referred to the Service having its ‘biggest ever workforce crisis’, and the NHS fell from first to fourth in the US …

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Britain’s Mental Health Crisis Isn’t an Accident

WEBTen years of austerity has seen mental health budgets slashed while demand has risen to record levels. Britain's mental health crisis isn't inevitable – it's the …

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The Mental Health Trap

WEBThe Mental Health Trap. By. Enya Sullivan. The NHS wants to increase the number of people accessing mental health support in the face of growing need – but …

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When Margaret Thatcher Privatised Social Care

WEBDepartment of Health and Social Security in 1976 had been massively and systematically ignored by cash-strapped Regional and District health authorities. By …

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The Growth of Healthcare Capitalism

WEBThe Department of Health budget will have grown by 1.2 per cent in real terms between 2009–10 and 2020–1. This is far below the long-term average increases …

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Labour’s Love Affair with Private Healthcare

WEBThere was a major controversy when Starmer’s Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting first stated last year that a future Labour government would tap spare …

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Mental Health Is a Political Problem

WEBMental Health Is a Political Problem. Mental health is often framed in individual terms with individual solutions – but rising levels of depression, anxiety and …

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How Thatcher Unleashed the NHS Outsourcing Wave

WEBHow Thatcher Unleashed the NHS Outsourcing Wave. By. John Lister. In 1979, Margaret Thatcher rose to power aiming to build a free-market Britain. One of her …

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How Decades of Neoliberalism Left the NHS on the Brink

WEBA steady stream of alarming data continues to emerge from the NHS. Last week, it was confirmed that waiting lists in England had hit 5.45 million, the highest since …

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How the NHS Was Won

WEBPublic health legislation followed the Poor Law and focused at first on the eradication of typhus and cholera, but it came to encompass health-adjacent functions …

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How the NHS Was Won

WEBIn the decades before the National Health Service (NHS), health care in Britain was guided by very different ideas. Most of the country’s hospitals were grim …

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How Trade Unions Have Fought to Save the NHS

WEBHealth workers from the union COHSE demonstrate against low pay, 1979. (Evening Standard / Getty Images) One indication of this shift is a more robust debate …

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It’s Time to Renew the Radical Vision Behind the NHS

WEBThis article is the first part of a three-part series about the future of health activism. You can pre-order Christopher Thomas’s The Five Health Frontiers: A New …

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The NHS Is Failing Because it’s Not Public Enough

WEBOur NHS is facing unprecedented strain. Waiting lists stand at almost six million. There are workforce shortages in almost every health profession. And estimates …

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The Tory Plan for Stealth NHS Privatisation

WEBThe National Health Service has a special place is the progressive psyche. It’s the country’s purest embodiment of a democratic socialist government, and its best …

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How a Decade of Austerity Brought the NHS to its Knees

WEBA decade ago, when the Coalition government began its austerity cuts, spending on the NHS was supposed to be ‘protected’ from the cuts inflicted on other …

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How Market Reforms Made the NHS Vulnerable to Pandemics

WEBIn 2014 a detailed report by two public health experts asked what Andrew Lansley’s Health and Social Care Act, passed two years earlier, meant for the state’s …

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