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The NHS [UK National Health Service] financial crisis is being used by healthcare insurers to try and sell their products – but what are the risks? By PAUL HOBDAY 22 January 2016 for OpenDemocracy, Our NHS Like any big business the…

Media Response to the Junior Doctors strike: The heart of the matter – a patient addresses striking junior doctors By Sam Semoff 13 January 2016 for Open Democracy At the Royal Liverpool hospital yesterday, a heart patient on the ward…

British junior doctors have gone on a strike causing major disruption to hospitals across the country. This is the first walkout of its kind over the past 40 years. Now tens of thousands of the junior doctors are providing only…

Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham today accused the government of plans to “open up the NHS to private bidders across Europe”, after it was revealed that any NHS contract over £625,000 will now be put out to tender. The changes…

By JACKY DAVIS 12 February 2015 for OpenDemocracy, Our NHS Even as they belatedly criticise the government’s health ‘reforms’, think tanks like the Kings Fund are making one fundamental error. The Kings Fund has at last criticised the government’s NHS…

According to the NHS [the British National Health Service] Support Federation “NHS changes continue to bear gifts for the private sector Since April 2013, £5 billion worth of NHS contracts have been awarded through the market. 67% of these clinical…

An article by John Hilary, executive director, and published in the BMJ [British Medical Journal] reminds us again of the serious and imminent risk to the National Helth Service (NHS) and therefore to the health of the population. “Designed to…

Royal College of Nursing Press Release “We want a cast-iron guarantee that TTIP will not leave the NHS vulnerable to privatisation through the backdoor” – RCN warns of trade deal’s impact on the health service > The NHS needs to…

By John Hilary 14 July 2014, for Open Democracy The TTIP trade treaty talks re-open in Brussels this week. We should not be reassured by the convenient ‘leak’ of a private letter between key TTIP advocates claiming the treaty poses…

With the title “How the EU is making NHS privatisation permanent” The New Statesman further analyses the effects of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) launched in June at the G8 meeting, in particular with reference to the looming…