SOLOMON HUGHES details how the firm has quickly moved on to buttering-up Labour MPs after the fall of the Tories so it can continue to ‘win both ways’ collecting public and private cash by undermining the NHS
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'These figures should be a wake-up call'

Labour warned that workers expect better as anger mounts over welfare cuts and public-sector pay

Born from my communist social worker mother’s efforts to bridge healthcare gaps, Labour’s push for home-based care now risks becoming another avenue for the US corporate takeover of the NHS, writes RICHARD CLARKE

That should be warning enough to end the company’s contract with the NHS, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Behind Starmer’s headline-grabbing abolition of NHS England lies a ruthless drive to centralise control so that cuts of £6.6 billion can be made — even if it means reducing cancer services and clinical staff, writes JOHN LISTER

The NHS continues to say Covid spreads primarily through ‘droplet and touch’ while the WHO emphasises airborne transmission, meaning vulnerable patients and healthcare workers face unnecessary risks, reports RUTH HUNT

RCN warns nurses are leaving the NHS due to shocking levels of racist abuse and understaffing

PM's move will ‘cause disruption and divert senior leaders' time and energy from improving care for patients,’ Health Foundation warns

More than seven in 10 health workers says patients struggling with their bills — a public health crisis ‘that is entirely preventable’

Diverting public funding to grow private-sector ‘spare capacity,’ actively undermines the funding and staff available to the NHS and results in a worse service, write JOHN PUNTIS and TONY O’SULLIVAN

Damning report finds migrant workers propping up Britain’s crumbling care system are trapped in awful working conditions

Royal College of Emergency Medicine says advertisement is ‘normalising’ patients being treated in the corridors

Campaigners warn Labour's ‘pro-business approach to data’ has ‘potential for further loss of public trust’ in the NHS

A&E departments overwhelmed with minor cases as primary care sector struggles to keep up with demand

Through hospital windows and news bulletins, personal loss opens a window onto the world’s wider suffering as the season, and the year itself, reminds us all why class solidarity matters now more than ever, writes MATT KERR

Labour promised change but delivers the same tired formula while private firms pocket millions and staff exodus continues — now workers must lead the fightback through their unions, writes IAIN MOONEY

Speaking to ELIZABETH SHORT, local campaigners explain why the murky plans for profit-driven ‘reform’ and the convoluted relocation of services at Europe’s largest women’s hospital need to be resisted

LOUISE RAW speaks to Long Covid sufferer Sam Williams and others who feel let down by a state that ignores their debilitating illness