Nobody should underestimate the extent of the challenge in dealing with a pandemic. That is why governments at national and local level carry out regular exercises to plan their response when the time comes, and can mobilise the resources they need quickly. (more…)
NHS Threats
Private Hospitals and the Price of pestilence
Private hospitals have offered to help the NHS during the pandemic crisis. Reassurances that this would ‘not be at a profit’ were made at the time. But what exactly does that mean? And how might this actually profit the private hospitals and put them in a position to profit after the pandemic? (more…)
Private Company Beds for the pandemic: Are there strings attached?
Doctors for the NHS has joined with other health campaigning groups nationally to sign a letter to the Minister for Health, Matt Hancock, asking for assurances about NHS provision with private beds during the pandemic crisis. (more…)
What is wrong with General Practice?
David Zigmond, a member of Doctors for the NHS’s Executive, explains why he thinks general practice is proving less popular. He was interviewed by Alan Taman (more…)
Press release: private IT firm puts patients at risk
Health campaign group Doctor for the NHS (DFNHS) has said that an IT firm losing thousands of letters to GPs from hospital trusts is ‘yet one more example of outsourcing harming patients – and costing more money in the end, as well as placing lives in danger’. (more…)
A question of trust
The Times of 8th February, reported that the Government is developing legislation that would fundamentally reform the 2012 Act, rather than the more limited workarounds that Simon Stevens wanted to enable the formation of Integrated / Accountable Care Organisations. It would be lovely to believe that this Government is planning legislation based on the NHS Reinstatement….
A matter of trust, Prime Minister – Will you give or take?
Health campaigning group Doctors for the NHS (DFNHS) welcome the Prime Minister’s assurances in his victory speech about the NHS and its true value. But what may well be an expression of resounding support for an inviolate treasure could also be an open declaration of selling price. (more…)
Private contracts at the heart of the NHS crisis
A letter in the Guardian (6 December), signed by several DFNHS Executive Committee members amongst others, points out the truth of the NHS crisis (more…)
VOTE TO SAVE THE NHS
Doctors for the NHS believes universal, comprehensive healthcare is a basic human right and the mark of a civilised country. It is not compatible with a market based on commercial contracts, which is what has been increasingly imposed on our NHS since 1990. (more…)
“Whatever you did for one of the least of these”
The place of the NHS and social care in contributing to a just society Lecture by The Most Revd Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York The Paul Noone Memorial Lecture – 26 October 2019 (more…)