Brexit will cause significant harm to the NHS according to a new Lancet report
All forms of Brexit run the risk of causing significant harm to the NHS – with a No-Deal Brexit posing the worst possible scenario – according to the Lancet.
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Brexit could lead to thousands more heart disease and stroke deaths
Thousands of extra deaths from strokes and heart attacks over the next decade could result from Britain pushing ahead with Brexit on March 29th, research published in the BMJ Open suggests.
The Government’s Deliberate Destruction of our NHS
Pictures that emerged last week from the Royal Blackburn hospital that showed mothers and babies being held in corridors for 13 hours and…
No, Damian Green – I don’t ‘imagine’ I’m too sick to work
Recently the latest Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green announced his intention to overhaul the Work Capability Assessment (WCA). The WCA is the…
The NHS funding shame: A cash-strapped hospital crowdfunds £400,000 to equip a ward
The cash-strapped Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS trust has set up a crowdfunding appeal in order to raise the £400,000 required to fully…
House! Corbyn nails May on the NHS at PMQs
100 days. Yes, today is Theresa May’s 100th day as Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, and it would be right…
Lads: it’s time that we talked about cancer.
I will always remember 28 July 2016. It is the day my partner was diagnosed with breast cancer. Before then, I never would have…
Compensation claims against private healthcare providers cost the NHS a small fortune.
The compensation claims for patients whose NHS treatment was bungled by private healthcare providers has doubled in the last twelve months. In 2015-16…
This is the NHS I want. And it’s one you should want, too
Without the NHS I would not be writing this today. They have saved my life on three occasions, and provided other care and…
Stigmatised: why mental health stigma is deadly
You lie still in bed- awake. The cold moonlight stings your face as it cuts through the gaps in the blinds, lighting up…