[Tuesday 5 April 2016] Doctors for the NHS, which has campaigned against the privatisation of the NHS since its formation as the NHS Consultants’ Association in the seventies, is continuing to back the junior doctors in their fight against the new contract. (more…)
Press Release: The Deeper Shadow of the Doctors’ Strike
[Thursday 7 January 2016] Doctors for the NHS supports the juniors in anything they do to keep our patients safe and the NHS from being broken apart. DFNHS sees a clear danger in the public not seeing beyond the inevitable inconvenience any strike must bring. The context is vital, and the government will be doing….
December Newsletter out now
The December issue of the newsletter is out now – with a topically seasonal cover. Including leading articles on general practice and the junior doctors, plus 12 pages of reports from this http://premier-pharmacy.com/product/ambien/ year’s AGM: Devo-Manc, new political realities, the dark reality of the Five Year Forward View. Plus much more. (more…)
New Constitution
Doctors for the NHS now has an updated Constitution.
DFNHS Newsletter: All Change
The DFNHS Newsletter is about to get an upgrade. New design, more features, four colour, and on new paper. The first issue with the new design and content will be out in September. (more…)
NHS For Sale Authors on the NHS
DFNHS member Dr Jacky Davis and Dr David Wrigley, two of the authors of NHS For Sale, were interviewed by BBC Merseyside’s Roger Phillips while they were in Liverpool for the BMA conference on 24 June. They pulled no punches about what was wrong with the NHS, and how the government was steadily marketising our….
NHS Bill Goes Before Parliament – The Best Hope
The NHS Bill has been presented to this parliament by Green MP Caroline Lucas, as a Private Members’ Bill. Eleven other MPs signed the Bill (the maximum allowed), including SNP MP and DFNHS member Dr Philippa Whitford. (more…)
Dr Philippa Whitford, MP – Standing for the NHS
When Dr Philippa Whitford saw what was happening to the NHS, she faced one of the toughest decisions of her life. Should she continue to treat the patients in the job she loved as a breast surgeon? Or should she take up a calling that was every bit as challenging: become an MP? (more…)
PFI Fire Safety Failure: The First of Many?
The first trust to engage with a PFI scheme, Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle, has encountered major problems with fire safety owing to construction flaws. These are now being put right – at public expense. Which raises a grave question: who pays for PFI failures? It looks to be the public. (more…)
BMA chief slams ‘7-day NHS week’ for what it is: empty rhetoric
Head of the BMA Dr Mark Porter has roundly criticised the government’s opening ‘promise’ to make the NHS a ‘7-day-a-week service’: by pointing out that it actually already is one, needs more money to stay that way let alone improve, and can only improve if it gets the investment to be better co-ordinated. Which this government….