Privatised NHS call centres are causing an A&E crisis
A 38 Degrees member didn't find the government's line on the A&E crisis very convincing. When he obtained the figures in question, the problem was quite clear - privatised call centres had lead to...
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OurNHS today launches a new citizens journalism initiative with 38 Degrees. Where the government and the media have failed to tell us how the NHS is being dismantled, we, the public can step in."A...
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In the first of a new series of dispatches from the frontline of England's National Health Service, published in association with 38 Degrees, Professor George Odam paints a worrying picture of the...
View ArticleRushing off a cliff - privatisation of patient transport services
As a new study shows the private sector winning the race for NHS contracts, Julius Marstrand of Cheltenham discusses how it is affecting ambulance services in the NHS in the South West. Before the last...
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Being referred to a private hospital by the NHS doesn't neccessarily mean better care. Last week my partner, Steve(*) - on the waiting list for a minor surgical procedure - received an unexpected...
View ArticleAsleep on the job - England's young doctors and the NHS reforms
Junior doctors were asleep while politicians tore down our NHS. It’s time to wake up again.Image Caption. Shutterstock/Luis Louro. All rights reserved.Great tides of people press against me, hands...
View ArticlePrivatised NHS call centres are causing an A&E crisis
A 38 Degrees member didn't find the government's line on the A&E crisis very convincing. When he obtained the figures in question, the problem was quite clear - privatised call centres had lead to...
View ArticleReclaiming our NHS
OurNHS today launches a new citizens journalism initiative with 38 Degrees. Where the government and the media have failed to tell us how the NHS is being dismantled, we, the public can step in."A...
View ArticleAre England’s small specialist hospitals becoming an endangered species?
In the first of a new series of dispatches from the frontline of England's National Health Service, published in association with 38 Degrees, Professor George Odam paints a worrying picture of the...
View ArticleRushing off a cliff - privatisation of patient transport services
As a new study shows the private sector winning the race for NHS contracts, Julius Marstrand of Cheltenham discusses how it is affecting ambulance services in the NHS in the South West. Before the last...
View ArticleToo posh to care
Being referred to a private hospital by the NHS doesn't neccessarily mean better care. Last week my partner, Steve(*) - on the waiting list for a minor surgical procedure - received an unexpected...
View ArticleAsleep on the job - England's young doctors and the NHS reforms
Junior doctors were asleep while politicians tore down our NHS. It’s time to wake up again.Image Caption. Shutterstock/Luis Louro. All rights reserved.Great tides of people press against me, hands...
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