Health / The anti-China coronavirus panic

What is really behind the media hysteria over Covid-19? And what can the virus tell us about the state of our NHS?

China / China will beat the coronavirus

While western hysteria is out of all proportion to the real scale of the emergency, the Chinese response has been swift and stunning.

Health / Shameful levels of malnutrition in Britain

Privatisation and cost-cutting in social care have led to shocking levels of neglect amongst the most vulnerable in our society.

Health / Brexit, profiteers and the NHS

Why are Donald Trump and a ‘no-deal’ Brexit being held up as threats to the future of the health service?

Pollution / Residents unite against power station plan next to Bristol inner-city nursery

Fight against unelected planning authorities exposes once again the true nature of Britain’s sham democracy.

Society / Hunger on the rise in Britain, despite economic ‘recovery’

In-work poverty testifies as to who really paid to bail out the banks in 2008. And while hunger is on the rise, one-third of food produced every year is wasted.

Disputes / Privatisation directors’ fat salaries come from ripping off health service workers

Sodexo and Mitie are the latest hospital outsourcing companies to face industrial action by staff over terrible pay and conditions.

Health / How to squeeze the NHS and get a gong

Private drugs companies seize on a ‘loophole’ in NHS rules to vastly overprice medicines.

Health / Smartphones v doctors: NHS destruction moves up a gear

A ‘new era of personalised care’ where mobile apps replace overworked GPs.

Health / Newcross Healthcare: rinsing the public coffers

The true face of privatisation in our public services, where greed and abuse are rewarded and people come last.

Energy / Government plans to push fracking through the back door

If we want to save our planet, we’ll need to get rid of capitalism.

Health / NHS cost-cutting managers’ plan will axe a raft of routine operations

Calling these procedures ‘unnecessary’ won’t stop people needing them, however; it will merely ration them according to the ability to pay.

Health / Save our NHS

Only by clearly understanding our rulers’ determination to dismantle the NHS and by coordinating our efforts to save it can we hope to succeed.

Health / NHS: government forced to recognise reality

The NHS needs more money for services and staff, not simply to create further profits for the bloodsucking privateers.

Health / Saving the NHS: the method and success rate of the petition ‘activist’

All sound and fury signifying nothing much.

Health / GP incentives – a dangerous tool of NHS privatisation

“I will use treatments for the benefit of the ill in accordance with my ability and my judgement, but from what is to their harm and injustice I will keep them.”

Health / Time to prise the leeches off the NHS

Why is it that increased funding doesn't result in better services in today's health service?

Lay-offs and closures / The collapse of Carillion

Financial and political commentators are suddenly ‘discovering’ that PFI and the privatisation of services might not be such a good deal after all.

Health / NHS crisis bites deeper

Workers taste the bitter fruit of capitalist market ‘reforms’.

Pollution / Air pollution in Britain at scandalously high levels

And all for the sake of the profits of the automobile industry.

Health / GPs resisting wholesale privatisation of NHS surgeries

It’s not just hospitals that are under fire.

Disputes / Editorial: Junior doctors vote to reject new contract

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt vows to impose new conditions anyway as privatisation plans ramps up another gear.

Disputes / No to the new doctors’ contract; save our NHS!

Hunt declares victory for the government; BMA’s Malawana declares ... nothing.

Health / Sudden death of the ‘weekend effect’

One of the key planks in the government's propaganda offensive against junior doctors has been exposed as a total nonsense.

Health / Public health: a matter of private profit

The proposed junior doctors’ contracts and cuts to student nurse bursaries are part of the drive to turn our hospitals into profit-taking enterprises.

Health / Junior doctors’ fight to save our NHS betrayed

Health / The junior doctors’ contract and the US corporate takeover of the NHS

Dr Bob Gill explains the unreported and sinister drive behind the push for changing junior doctors’ contracts.

Pollution / VW emissions scandal

Capitalism will always put the need for maximum profit above the people’s health – or even saving the planet.

Disputes / Letter: Boycott the General Medical Council

The medical profession needs a new, independent governing body, capable of acting in the true interests of patients.