Claiming to be under arrest, president Embalo has left the country while his opponents remain in custody after a military coup a day ahead of the announcement of the final results, argues PAVAN KULKARNI
‘It’s only a matter of time before someone gets hurt’
Ruth Hunt talks to GP Dr ANDY KOVAC about how NHS fragmentation and the government’s obsession with gimmicks are having a devastating impact on patient care
The daughter of a legendary blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter has spoken out against the reactionary move, says MIKE SCHNEIDER
As the Trump administration escalates military pressure on Venezuela, a growing number of Caribbean governments are lining up behind Washington’s show of force, writes ROGER McKENZIE
On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights
The UN has shamefully empowered the occupation of Gaza rather than ending it – we must redouble our efforts to build the movement required to establish a true peace, argues BEN JAMAL
Morning Star political reporter Andrew Murray speaks to ZARAH SULTANA on the mass party of the left holding its inaugural conference this weekend
TORY meddling in the NHS has turned the much-loved national treasure into an acronym-spouting, constantly fracturing, overly bureaucratic, confusing mess, which is prone to systemic failures.
For Dr Andy Kovach* who is a practising GP, the top-down reorganisation of the NHS in 2012 by the then coalition government is a big part of the problem: “Since the controversial Health and Social Care Act 2012, the NHS in England has now become a bewildering and disjointed network of public, semi-public, semi-private, private and third-sector providers,” he says.
The main thrust of the Act was to abolish primary care trusts and strategic health authorities and instead transfer responsibility and funds away from the government on to clinical commissioning groups which have to judge which provider would receive the contract for a service.
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