#nhssos — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nhssos, aggregated by home.social.
-
We Own It
Scottish party leaders: Commit to fight for our NHS
Open letter to all of Scotland's party leaders
To add your name:
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/scottish-party-leaders-commit-fight-our-nhs
-
Join the EveryDoctor mailing list!
Our team is working on a ground-breaking project about NHS privatisation and we will be launching very soon. Our mailing list is incredibly important to us- and if you sign up and join in, you'll hear crucial updates first!Please sign up, and please share this page to encourage others too. It is time to hold politicians to account about NHS privatisation together!
-
The Lancet
The effect of health-care privatisation on the quality of care
Summary
Over the past 40 years, many health-care systems that were once publicly owned or financed have moved towards privatising their services, primarily through outsourcing to the private sector. But what has the impact been of privatisation on the quality of care? -
This article is more than 1 year old
NHS privatisation drive linked to rise in avoidable deaths, study suggestsOutsourcing accelerated by Lansley’s shakeup in 2012 linked to drop in care quality in landmark review
The privatisation of NHS care accelerated by Tory policies a decade ago has corresponded with a decline in quality and “significantly increased” rates of death from treatable causes, the first study of its kind says. -
Big Brother aka Palantir may be watching you more closely than you like in the future.
From the bird site via threadreader. -
Reverse the Privatisation of the National Health Service (NHS)
Petition:
-
Reverse the Privatisation of the National Health Service (NHS)
Petition: -
The price of fascism; the return of Victorian era diseases.
‘It is shameful’: why the return of Victorian-era diseases to the UK alarms health experts
There has been a surge in cases of scabies and measles – both highly contagious – as well as rickets and scurvy, conditions we thought had been eradicated. Are public health cuts to blame?
-
Normal Island News
The government somehow notices everyone needs a dentist
No one knows why they noticed during an election yearAfter 14 years in power, the UK government has somehow noticed that British people desperately need dentists and don’t much like their teeth falling out due to the unaffordability of private dentistry.
-
Byline Times.
GPs in England at ‘Breaking Point’ Amid ‘Collapse in Morale’
A significant number of GPs are leaving permanent positions for locum roles or leaving clinical careers altogether, according to a new research by EveryDoctor
Josiah Mortimer
5 February 2024Primary care doctors in England are feeling “despondent” and feel unable to provide adequate care given the current pressures on workloads and funding, Byline Times has been told.
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/02/05/gps-in-england-at-breaking-point-amid-collapse-in-morale/?
-
Normal Island News
Government reducing NHS queues by not letting you see a doctor
This is an ingenious moveIf you’re one of the 7 million people worried you are going to die waiting for hospital treatment, I have exciting news: the government is offering you the chance to skip the NHS queue like Catherine and Charles by not using the NHS!
#NormalIslandNews #NHSSOS #privatisation #ToryFail #LabourFail
-
Sunak’s missed targets leave NHS facing catastrophic winter crisis
Revealed: the PM’s pledges in January to improve waiting times and bed numbers are behind schedule, according to official data
The NHS is facing another catastrophic winter crisis because Rishi Sunak is failing to meet key targets he set last January for improving emergency care, leaving patients facing more delays for treatment during the busiest months, the Observer can reveal. -
The pharmaceutical industry is make a killing out of our NHS. In the last decade alone, big pharma made £12 billion of 'excess profits' from selling just 10 drugs to the NHS.
But big pharma’s NHS profiteering isn’t stopping there. Right now they are lobbying the government to rip up a key pricing deal which keeps big pharma greed in check, by capping the amount that the NHS has to pay for medicines.Petition:
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/big-pharma-is-rinsing-the-nhs-take-action?source=direct_link&
-
One of Tories’ biggest ever donors profited from £135m of NHS contracts
Exclusive: Frank Hester, who gave Rishi Sunak’s party £5m this summer, is thought to have made huge sums from DHSC deals
His company, the Phoenix Partnership (TPP), paid out more than £20m in dividends between 2019 and 2022, with Hester the only shareholder.
#NHSSOS #ToryCorruption #NHSForSale #HealthCare #health #privatisation
-
The Sunday Times has just blown a hole through the narrative that the private sector can help our NHS.
At the weekend, they published a MASSIVE story exposing the fact that private healthcare puts profits before people.
We know that every politician reads The Times. That is why it is such a big deal that they are exposing what’s wrong with giving private companies a role in our healthcare.
Petition:
Starmer: Reinstate the NHS as a fully public servicehttps://weownit.org.uk/act-now/starmer-reinstate-the-nhs-fully-public-service
-
#EveryDoctorUK
Sign the petition! Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak: We Demand a Plan for the NHS RAAC
We are writing to Rishi Sunak to express our deep concerns about reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) and the potential dangers it poses to both NHS patients and staff. There have been repeated warnings over a number of years, and the government has failed to take the action required to rectify the situation.https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/we-demand-a-plan-for-the-nhs-raac?source=direct_link&
-
openDemocracy
he former head of MI6 introduced Palantir to a top government official in the Cabinet Office a year before the US spy tech firm won a £27m contract with the department.openDemocracy can reveal that Sir John Sawers set up a meeting between Palantir’s CEO and the Cabinet Office permanent secretary, John Manzoni, in 2019, when the company was pitching for new business.
Palantir went on to win a data deal
-
Harry's Last Stand
Junior Doctors and Consultants are striking for more than just wages. They are striking for your right to timely, state of the art public healthcare.
Free at the point of use, universal public healthcare was once democracy’s strongest castle wall. It protected, for decades, our civilisation from the predatory nature of oligarchic capitalism.#HarrysLastStand #HarryLeslieSmith
#JohnSmith #NHSSOS #health #fascism #HealthCare -
We have a world class NHS model. The NHS is not a business model. It is a Not For Profit Welfare Model for the whole of UK whether rich or poor. It is funded through our National Insurance Contributions every month. Our Employers pay their share for employing us too. This collective money goes to the NHS to provide the services.
#NHSSOS #HealthCare #StopPrivatisation #ToryCorruption #ToryLies #ToryFail #LabourRightWingCoup
-
Private firm linked to No 10 adviser handed NHS waiting lists contract
Labour accuses Rishi Sunak of possible conflict of interest as former client of Bill Morgan chosen to run diagnostic centres
Rishi Sunak is facing questions over a possible conflict of interest after it emerged that a private healthcare firm handed a government contract to reduce regional NHS waiting lists is linked to a No 10 policy adviser.
-
Lucy Letby: doctor who raised alarm calls for regulation of NHS executives
Dr Stephen Brearey says officials ‘absolutely’ need to be regulated in similar manner to medical practitioners
NHS executives should be regulated similarly to medical practitioners, the paediatrician who first raised the alarm on Lucy Letby has said, after clinicians’ concerns about her after years of concerns were “turned on the head”. -
‘Inhumane’ NHS fees left more than 900 migrants without treatment
Patients turned down care they needed after demands for advance payments amid complaints of government’s ‘hostile environment’
Hundreds of migrants have declined NHS treatment after being presented with upfront charges over the past two years, amid complaints the government’s “hostile environment” on immigration remains firmly in place. -
Watch: People on waiting lists speak out against NHS privatisation
Last week the government announced plans to create eight new privately owned and run health centres and to remove barriers to using more of the private sector in the NHS.
In this video, people on NHS waiting lists tell their heartbreaking stories of being on the waiting list for months (sometimes for over a year) and demand that the government fund our NHS, not private profit.
https://weownit.org.uk/blog/watch-people-waiting-lists-speak-out-against-nhs-privatisation
-
Who would you believe? The government minister claiming there’ve been no problems with Palantir’s software? Or the NHS hospital in Liverpool that actually tried it, and says the trial had to be stopped because it didn’t do what NHS staff needed it to do?
We need answers urgently. Finding out what went wrong during trials of Palantir's software at NHS hospitals could be key to preventing them getting the new £480m NHS data contract.
-
Make the NHS fully-publicly run again.
Patients have needed surgery following failures by NHS-contracted firms, charity saysCrohn's and Colitis UK said it heard from 35 people claiming that issues on the part of homecare medicines services, such as delays in delivering vital medications, led to their condition worsening to the point that they required surgery.
-
Just Treatment.
Last week it was revealed that giant pharmaceutical companies have made over £12bn in excess profits from selling just 10 drugs to the NHS over the last decade.In a new report we worked on with our friends at Global Justice Now and STOPAIDS, we found that drugs used to treat cancers, arthritis and for blood clot prevention are being sold to the NHS with mark-ups of up to 23,000% on the estimated cost of production.
-
-
Sunak says he can’t afford public sector pay rises – but look at the white elephants he’s happy to fund
Spending priorities sum up all that is rotten in government. Where is the money for education and the NHS?Rishi Sunak has now conceded public sector workers the sum he was told to pay them by their independent review boards last year, an average rise of 6%.
#NHSSOS #PublicSpending #ToryFail #ToryLies #ToryCorruption #government
-
Now it’s time to pile that pressure on your MP directly, wherever you are in the UK. Let your MP know that you want Only the NHS - NOT privatisation.
-
Austerity has led to NHS quality of care declining in key areas, study finds
Exclusive: Experts say fall in funding caused ‘turning point’ in standards in health service in England
The coalition government’s austerity programme in the early 2010s led to the heath service no longer being able to meet key waiting time targets, the Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation said.
#NHSSOS #austerity #HealthCare #health #politics #ToryFail #ToryLies