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NHS / 23 April 2025
23 April 2025

'These figures should be a wake-up call'

Britain / 22 April 2025
22 April 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
(left to right) Health Secretary Wes Streeting, Dr James Mar
Britain / 9 April 2025
9 April 2025
Labour warned that workers expect better as anger mounts over welfare cuts and public-sector pay
RELIEVING THE STRAIN: Could some version of ‘hospital at h
Features / 9 April 2025
9 April 2025
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
A general view of staff on an NHS hospital ward at Ealing Ho
Britain / 1 April 2025
1 April 2025
A doctor checking a patient's blood pressure at the Temple F
Britain / 27 March 2025
27 March 2025
RESISTANCE: Demonstrators at the University of California, B
Features / 25 March 2025
25 March 2025
That should be warning enough to end the company’s contract with the NHS, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Features / 17 March 2025
17 March 2025
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
A person placing a swab from a Covid 19 lateral flow test in
Features / 15 March 2025
15 March 2025
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
NHS workers on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital,
Britain / 14 March 2025
14 March 2025
RCN warns nurses are leaving the NHS due to shocking levels of racist abuse and understaffing
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a Q&A session after deliv
Britain / 13 March 2025
13 March 2025
PM's move will ‘cause disruption and divert senior leaders' time and energy from improving care for patients,’ Health Foundation warns
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 11 March 2025
11 March 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 4 March 2025
4 March 2025
More than seven in 10 health workers says patients struggling with their bills — a public health crisis ‘that is entirely preventable’

Amanda Pritchard, Chief Executive of NHS England speaking a
Britain / 25 February 2025
25 February 2025
A dentist at work
Britain / 21 February 2025
21 February 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 18 February 2025
18 February 2025
Health Secretary Wes Streeting with Prime Minister Keir Star
Britain / 17 February 2025
17 February 2025
WHAT KIND OF CHANGE? Keir Starmer happy to selfie with membe
Features / 15 February 2025
15 February 2025
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
Staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London, J
Britain / 11 February 2025
11 February 2025
Damning report finds migrant workers propping up Britain’s crumbling care system are trapped in awful working conditions
A teenage girl with her head in her hands
Britain / 11 February 2025
11 February 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 7 February 2025
7 February 2025
First Minister of Scotland John Swinney during his visit to
Britain / 5 February 2025
5 February 2025
A general view of medical equipment on a NHS hospital ward a
Britain / 3 February 2025
3 February 2025
Scottish Health Secretary Neil Gray, September 17, 2024
Britain / 23 January 2025
23 January 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 22 January 2025
22 January 2025
A man showing signs of depression
Britain / 21 January 2025
21 January 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 20 January 2025
20 January 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward
Britain / 14 January 2025
14 January 2025
First Minister John Swinney during his visit to NHS 24 call
Britain / 13 January 2025
13 January 2025
The emergency department at Midland Metropolitan University
Britain / 12 January 2025
12 January 2025
Royal College of Emergency Medicine says advertisement is ‘normalising’ patients being treated in the corridors
A dentist at work
Britain / 10 January 2025
10 January 2025
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward
Britain / 9 January 2025
9 January 2025
Members of the Royal College of Nursing union on the picket
Britain / 9 January 2025
9 January 2025
Health Secretary Wes Streeting meeting staff during a visit
Britain / 2 January 2025
2 January 2025
Campaigners warn Labour's ‘pro-business approach to data’ has ‘potential for further loss of public trust’ in the NHS
A view of an entrance to an Accident and Emergency Departmen
Britain / 30 December 2024
30 December 2024
A&E departments overwhelmed with minor cases as primary care sector struggles to keep up with demand
Britain / 29 December 2024
29 December 2024
An Accident and Emergency sign
Britain / 24 December 2024
24 December 2024
DESPERATE: A group of
refugees cross a beach in
Kent after b
Aw That / 21 December 2024
21 December 2024
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
A view of parking charges at Buckland Hospital in Dover, Ken
Britain / 21 December 2024
21 December 2024

A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing H
Features / 20 December 2024
20 December 2024
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
Britain / 19 December 2024
19 December 2024
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 19 December 2024
19 December 2024
Campaigners march in 2023, warning that the plans to change
Features / 19 December 2024
19 December 2024
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
Britain / 18 December 2024
18 December 2024
A registration form and a stethoscope at a GP Practice
Britain / 16 December 2024
16 December 2024
Features / 11 December 2024
11 December 2024
LOUISE RAW speaks to Long Covid sufferer Sam Williams and others who feel let down by a state that ignores their debilitating illness
Staff on a NHS hospital ward, October 3, 2014
Britain / 10 December 2024
10 December 2024
Ambulance workers on the picket line outside Croydon Street
Britain / 10 December 2024
10 December 2024
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward
Britain / 6 December 2024
6 December 2024
Minister for Health and Social Care Neil Gray during First M
Britain / 6 December 2024
6 December 2024
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward
Britain / 3 December 2024
3 December 2024
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward
Britain / 2 December 2024
2 December 2024
Britain / 29 November 2024
29 November 2024
A doctor checking a patient's blood pressure at the Temple F
Britain / 29 November 2024
29 November 2024
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward
Britain / 28 November 2024
28 November 2024
Britain / 26 November 2024
26 November 2024
A general view of medical equipment on a NHS hospital ward a
Editorial: / 26 November 2024
26 November 2024
Former health secretary Matt Hancock arrives to give evidenc
Britain / 21 November 2024
21 November 2024
A doctor holding a stethoscope
Britain / 21 November 2024
21 November 2024
A stethoscope on top of patient's files at a GP Practice nea
Britain / 19 November 2024
19 November 2024
UNFAIRLY TARGETED: A support group protests before the publi
Features / 19 November 2024
19 November 2024
The Stafford Hospital scandal’s false mortality statistics led to devastating service cuts despite evidence disproving the whole debacle, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE, warning of similar threats under Labour’s new plans for league tables
Campaigners from the Merseyside Pensioners Association and R
Britain / 13 November 2024
13 November 2024
NHS workers on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital,
Britain / 11 November 2024
11 November 2024
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 5 November 2024
5 November 2024
Campaigners urge Labour to invest in NHS to tackle rising levels of long-term illness
Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) on the picket
Britain / 5 November 2024
5 November 2024
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 4 November 2024
4 November 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves leaves 11 Downing
Britain / 30 October 2024
30 October 2024
‘Labour’s plans to spend more on the NHS, schools and housing welcome. But budget falls far short of what a real government for workers should do’
First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan speaks during the Labo
Britain / 25 October 2024
25 October 2024
Mr Anastasios Giamouriadis, a consultant neurosurgeon at NHS
Britain / 25 October 2024
25 October 2024
GETTING THE PULSE? Keir Starmer, and Health Secretary Wes St
Features / 25 October 2024
25 October 2024
FAWZI IBRAHIM argues that the NHS needs reforms to bring it back to its original tenets and outlines five fundamental changes that are critical to achieving this
Britain / 20 October 2024
20 October 2024