Tag: NHS

The Labour MP and Shadow Cabinet Minister, Andy McDonald, played an absolute blinder on BBC Radio 4 this morning after forcing the show's presenter to completely backtrack on himself for making a blatantly false...

As the cash-starved NHS is brought to its knees after years of relentless Tory austerity, it has been revealed that massive five-figure bonuses were handed out to top executives of a private company who...

The University Hospitals Plymouth Trust has been forced to move its entire elective orthopaedic service to the private provider, Care UK, in a desperate attempt to free up extra bed space in time for...

Last week saw the observation and recognition of World Mental Health Day across the globe. Coinciding with this annual event was an international two-day mental health summit held in London. However, one key group...

Analysis from the House of Commons library shows that the NHS will suffer £2.7bn in new cuts over the course of this Parliamentary term due to a shocking government miscalculation which underestimated the pension costs...

The Conservative MP who Theresa May has just promoted to take over from Jeremy Hunt to oversee our National Health Service, Matt Hancock, has received tens of thousands of pounds worth of donations from...

A tax avoidance scheme being utilised by bosses of hundreds of NHS Trusts is losing the public purse millions of pounds, and at the same time shifting tax liabilities, potentially illegally, onto temporary staff...

A man has starved to death after desperately seeking help from numerous services and being told he must wait 7 months for help. Anthony Wilkinson, 44, was a chronic alcoholic who had been sober for...

Sutherland Lodge Surgery in Chelmsford, Essex, was rated as outstanding. Then, the Tories cut its Personal Medical Services funding by £400,000, forcing its GP partners out. Virgin Care took over and, 18 months later,...

In the evening of 12 May, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt realised that it was International Nurses' Day - and he'd almost missed it. He quickly sent a tweet: https://twitter.com/Jeremy_Hunt/status/995341044505088001 Just three days earlier, Conservative MPs had...