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
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
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
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
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