Analysis: How Did British Dental Care Get So Awful?
by Ell Folan
11 million people are currently waiting to see an NHS dentist. 90% of practices aren’t taking new patients. The problem goes way deeper than the pandemic, writes Ell Folan.
Tag: health
Report: Mick Lynch: ‘Corruption’ is to Blame for Lack of Progress in Rail Dispute
by Simon Childs
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch described the most recent offer to railway workers as like being slapped around the face with a fish.
Novara FM: Deep Medicine
Rupa Marya and Raj Patel take Eleanor Penny on a global tour of inflammation and healing.
Feature: The Monkeypox Vaccine Rollout Is Unfair. But Not for the Reasons You Think
by Sophie Atkinson
Underfunded sexual health services and poor communication are breeding a parallel outbreak of frustration and resentment, reports Sophie Atkinson.
Opinion: Monkeypox is Giving Us Another Lesson in Medical Stigma
by Dr Rita Issa & Dr Melissa Chowdhury
If we don’t learn the lessons of Covid-19 and the HIV/Aids epidemic, each new virus will bring the same old forms of discrimination. Dr Melissa Chowdhury and Dr Rita Issa explain.
Analysis: Ecofascism Is Infilitrating the Conversation Around Reproductive Rights
by Annabel Sowemimo
Neocolonial arguments for population control are worming their way into global health, writes Annabel Sowemimo.
Analysis: Poor Brits Live Much Shorter Lives. What Can We Do?
by Ell Folan
The least privileged people live nine years fewer than the most. Ell Folan looks at why, and what can be done.
Opinion: Sajid Javid Wants Us to Believe Oximeters Create Racism
by Shanice McBean
Last week the health secretary launched an investigation into racial bias in medical technologies. It's certainly easier than investigating the real reasons for disproportionate Black deaths during the pandemic, writes Shanice McBean.
Live: Why Sajid Javid Is a Danger to the NHS
Sajid Javid has replaced Matt Hancock as health secretary, is a lockdown sceptic and a banker at JP Morgan. Should Britons trust their health in his hands?
Opinion: No, Covid-19 Isn’t a Chance to ‘End HIV’
by Ben Weil
Sexual health campaigners have welcomed lockdown as an opportunity for more abstinence and less HIV transmission. This kind of thinking didn’t get us anywhere in the 1980s, and it won’t now.
Downstream: Why Has Britain Failed on Covid? Richard Horton
A year after the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic, with Britain enduring more than a 100,000 deaths since, a number of major questions remain unanswered. Why was the response of the UK among the worst in the world? How is it possible that the death toll of countries in Europe and North America […]
Report: Teachers’ Unions Won Big This Week. They’re Just Getting Started
by Rivkah Brown
The Tories' U-turn on schools was not merely the product of circumstance, but months of teacher organising. Now, with a multiplying membership and renewed confidence, unions are setting their sights beyond the pandemic to transforming their entire profession. Rivkah Brown reports.
The Bastani Factor: The 21st Century Crisis Nobody Talks About: Demographic Ageing
Humanity is getting older. But while the old outnumbering the young is one of the supreme achievements of our species, it comes with major challenges. Aaron Bastani on a crisis set to re-define societies around the world which, for the 21st century at least, is every bit as disruptive as climate change.
Opinion: Coronavirus Will Require Us to Completely Reshape the Economy
by James Meadway
This crisis will require more than money to resolve; it will require the restructuring of our economy. This will be done either to the benefit of people and the planet, or it will not be, writes James Meadway.
Cold Comfort: So-Called ‘Tough Decisions’ Are Putting Patients at Risk
by Dr J
In part two of a series covering the NHS winter crisis from within A&E, Dr J asks how the language of 'difficult choices' and 'tough decisions' undercuts the key principles of a universal NHS while distracting us from the political decisions underlying the crisis.
Cold Comfort: A&E Fills With Those Left in the Cold
by Dr J
In part one of a new series covering the NHS 'winter pressures' from within A&E, Dr J reflects on the relationship between housing and health, and what it means for rough sleepers and the hidden homeless.
Mental Health & Masculinity
Aaron Bastani talks mental health, masculinity and shares his own experience with depression.
Treat, Don’t Police! Fighting the Immigration Act in the NHS
by Docs Not Cops
The Byron raids highlighted the extent to which companies are complicit in immigration enforcement, but the government's pursuit of a 'hostile environment' for undocumented migrants is asking NHS workers to police patients.