We mustn’t let Silicon Valley thinking infect our NHS
Secretive COVID contracts show how big data firms are taking over our healthcare. What are they – and the British government – hoping to get out of it?
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Published in: ourNHS: InvestigationNeglected key workers - why is the NHS so slow at tackling racism?
Key workers have emerged as national heroes out of the Covid-19 pandemic, but these often low-paid workers from...
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionUndermining public law is no way to protect public health
Safeguards on everything from procurement to notifiable diseases, health inspections to freedom of information, are...
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Published in: ourNHS: InvestigationPeople left without COVID-19 tests due to ID verification gaps
TransUnion was commissioned to verify people’s identity so they can receive a home testing kit after developing...
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionNo secret COVID-19 deals with big pharma, demands trial volunteer
Details of crucial vaccine trials should be made public, and guarantee no profiteering in future. Current...
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Published in: ourNHS: InvestigationStay at home with no money for 2 weeks before hospital treatment, NHS patients told
openDemocracy has uncovered a major new flaw in sick pay rules. Medics and experts slam the government for not...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationUK government preparing to fight costly negligence claims over NHS staff deaths
Revealed: Hancock’s £60,000 scheme for bereaved families will accept ‘no liability’ for deaths – as lawyers warn...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationExclusive: NHS using ‘flawed’ COVID-19 test – missing 25% of positives
Hancock under pressure to resign as leaked documents show NHS is using knowingly flawed tests for coronavirus
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion‘Protect the NHS’ must not be another excuse to blame patients
Scaring people away from using Britain’s National Health Service is a dangerous and toxic message - and now it’s...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionStop blaming ordinary people for the UK’s pandemic failures
Boris Johnson has presided over a public policy disaster. Now, he wants you to blame your neighbours. Don't.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWe must undo a decade of disastrous NHS reforms
Covid-19 shows how our health service has been undermined
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion"We are being treated as cannon fodder”
After a decade of austerity, NHS doctors feel they have been abandoned by the government in the face of Covid-19
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionThe entire UK may come to regret Sunak’s inadequate coronavirus budget
Vaccinating only part of the economy does little to improve collective resilience and protect public health.
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Published in: ourNHSWill Big Tech save the NHS – or eat it alive?
Technophile politicians and tech companies are making big promises. But the broader impact of the digital...
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionTories target Northern voters with NHS message all about blaming migrants
A shocking leaflet sent out in Tory/Labour battlegrounds has “racist undertones”. NHS workers and experts call it...
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionAs a pediatrician, this is the most important parenting advice I can give
We have the power to change things, right now. We have the opportunity to give the best to our children.
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionI've had a good election - recovering from heart surgery
During an election dominated by Brexit and the NHS, Anthony Barnett has been reflecting on what his open heart...
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Published in: ourNHS: InvestigationThe NHS is opening up to US business - the reassurances are demonstrably false
British officials dodged invitations to exclude the NHS from a US-UK trade deal. Not surprising, given how much...
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Published in: ourNHS: InvestigationThe President, the US private health giant, and top NHS officials – special relationships?
US private healthcare firm Optum has been ‘planting seeds’ in the English NHS for a decade, new research exposes.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationExplosive UK/US trade deal leaks - how Corbyn succeeded where I had given up
We can now see the pressure the US is putting on the UK to put "everything" - including the NHS - on the table in...
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionCare homes need the industry leaks to be plugged, not just more money
Private care home giants currently funnel large sums away from front line care and towards profits, directors fees,...
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