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Health privatisation failed, why does it keep coming back?
HELEN O'CONNOR reviews the very recent disasters from attempts to use private companies and private finance instead of a publicly funded NHS — now this discredited approach is back to 'drive down waiting lists'
Labour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting says he'd use the private sector to bring down NHS waiting lists – but the strategy is a proven failure
LYNNE WALSH previews the Bristol Radical History Conference this weekend
Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right
Ecuador’s election wasn’t free — and its people will pay the price under President Noboa
Mountains of research show that hardcore material harms children, yet there are still no simple measures in place
We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
THERE can be no doubt that the pandemic is putting unprecedented strain on the NHS — but decades of cuts and privatisation have also contributed to the current chaos.
Far from ensuring that the NHS retains experienced staff or allocating adequate funding to provide care, this government is still demanding that NHS trusts stick to rigorous financial targets and false performance indicators in order to avoid having further funding removed.
As NHS trusts struggle to balance the books, public money is being funnelled to the private sector to solve a crisis that is deliberately being created by this government and further exacerbated by the pandemic.
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