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‘Like an A&E run by Virgin Active’: Physiotherapy Firm Awarded £86m NHS Mental Health Contract
An NHS mental health contract has been awarded to a private company with next to no track record delivering IAPT services, in an unprecedented example of the escalating privatisation of Britain's healthcare. Sophie Hemery investigates for Novara Media.
Universities Are Catastrophically Failing Students on Mental Health – Here’s How We Fight Back
UK students are suffering from underfunded university and NHS mental health services. But a campaign by students at University College London is showing how to fight back.
How Can We Make Labour Councils Fight Austerity? The View From Bristol
Bristol's mayor, Marvin Rees, has boxed clever on the anti-austerity surge within Labour. Yet the question of how to turn local government into a vehicle to stop cuts - and whether doing so is possible with the Tories in Whitehall - has divided the left.