The NHS needs democratising – EC member Mike Galvin points to one solution in the BMJ (13 March)
NHS Threats
Privatisation deals are the road to destruction
The founding principles of the NHS have long been under attack, but now it seems that some politicians from both Conservative and Labour parties are predicting its impending collapse unless radically reformed. (more…)
Striking for the NHS
Doctors and nurses cost money. Highly skilled people doing, every day, what very few people could – saving lives. No one, surely, would argue with that? Yet we are doomed, it seems, to be heading to the point where NHS staff are cast as the enemy. How could this be? (more…)
Nurses Strike: The government MUST listen
Press statement: For All Our sakes, Listen! Doctors for the NHS, which has been campaigning to protect the founding values of the NHS for many years, is appealing to the government to listen to nurses and other healthcare professionals and hear what is painfully obvious: that the NHS is near to collapse and those who….
Bringing the Disciplinary to Account
DFNHS EC memberArun Baksi, on why he and his colleagues are proposing a new way of making NHS discipline for doctors fairer (more…)
Taken for fools or waiting for justice?
I see a lot, as an NHS ‘outsider’. I work with doctors and my wife works as a Health Visitor Team Manager. I get to see what is happening to people who work for the NHS ‘at a distance’, but that does lend a certain perspective. What I see is ugly. (more…)
Hunt’s critique of the NHS: was he any better?
DFNHS Chair Dr Colin Hutchinson has questioned Jeremy hunt’s latest critique of the NHS, pointing out in the Guardian that Mr Hunt is hardly in a position to criticise too harshly given his own tenure of the NHS. (more…)
For A Better Place: A Proposal
Doctor for the NHS, along with Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) is supporting a move lead by DFNHS members Arun Baski and Helen Fielding calling for the setting up of independent Scrutiny Panels in NHS trusts to safeguard against the often vilifying and unfair way disciplinary proceedings are used in hospitals. (more…)
Survey shows people are ‘going private’ more and NHS staff are advising them to
A survey of nearly 7,000 members of the public and over 500 NHS staff has shown an alarming increase in the number of people opting to pay for private treatment rather than face longer waits – and in many cases, NHS staff have advised them to in the face of unprecedented demand, mounting staff shortages….
‘Provider Collaboratives’ – Beware The New Private Back Door
The NHS Care Bill as currently proposed has not so much a loophole in it to allow private providers to slice off the bits of the NHS they want to profit from as a gaping back door, an open funnel through which to cajole, influence and drain public cash into private provider hands – with….