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…)
NHS Threats
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…)
The Crisis in General Practice
General Practice is a bit of an oddity. While an integral and fundamental part of the NHS it has never been a service directly provided by the NHS, but instead provided through GPs as independent contractors. Yet it is widely regarded as the bedrock of our health care system and partly responsible for its efficiency…..
No Way to Treat Visitors
NHS staff are begin forced to query someone’s nationality before they treat them under this government’s ‘hostile environment’ policy. And for what? 0.3% of NHS costs, according to Dr James Skinner, from Medact, who spoke at this year’s AGM in York. And the human cost? (more…)