Opinion: Trust Me, Private Healthcare is a Shitshow
by Luke Savage
America spends more money on a worse system that voters hate, writes Luke Savage. So why are UK politicians pretending privatisation will fix the NHS?
Tag: healthcare
Analysis: Labour Is Wrong – Private Healthcare Can’t Save the NHS
by Ell Folan
A tiny private sector already bolstered by NHS staff can’t come to the rescue – and nor should it, writes Ell Folan.
Long Read: Mental Healthcare Often Isn’t Care at All
by Micha Frazer-Carroll
Carceral approaches to mental healthcare are on the rise in Britain. This should worry us all, argues Micha Frazer-Carroll.
Feature: PrEP Could End HIV Transmissions But Tory Austerity Is Scuppering It
by Sarah Woolley
PrEP reduces the risk of contracting HIV by almost 100%. But government cuts mean it’s not reaching the majority of people it should.
Feature: How Healthcare Went From State Responsibility to Workplace ‘Perk’
by Moya Lothian-McLean
As the welfare state recedes, employers are increasingly offering healthcare and income protection as workplace ‘benefits’. Moya Lothian-Mclean asks, what does this mean for worker power?
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.
Report: The US Abortion Ruling Is Already Blocking Life Saving Drugs
by Amy Booth
Following the overturning of Roe v Wade, patients with autoimmune illnesses are being denied vital medicine.
Analysis: The Tories Aren’t Banning Conversion Therapy
by VS Wells
The conversion therapy ban announced in the Queen’s speech has so many loopholes as to be virtually meaningless, writes VS Wells.
Opinion: Cis or Trans, Our Bodily Autonomy is Under Attack
by Tiffany Berruti
From the overturning of Roe v Wade to attacks on gender affirming care, both cis and trans people face barriers to basic healthcare. It’s time we recognised our shared struggle, writes Tiffany Berruti.
Analysis: The Hostile Environment Is Putting Everyone at Greater Risk From Covid
by Ella Weldon
The hostile environment isn’t just endangering migrants during the pandemic, it’s endangering us all, writes Ella Weldon.
Opinion: It’s Not Enough to ‘Save’ the NHS – We Must Transform It
by Joanna Sutton-Klein
Reactionary campaigns to ‘save’ our NHS are no longer enough, writes Jo Sutton-Klein; progressives must offer a transformative vision, which puts care at its centre.
The Bastani Factor: Was Jesus Christ a Socialist Revolutionary?
For conservatives he is viewed as a source of inspiration, with some even claiming he was an advocate of the free market. But what did Jesus really preach two thousand years ago? Despite the rise of the religious right in recent decades, Aaron Bastani asks whether the central figure in the Christian faith was in […]
Opinion: How to Navigate Britain’s Broken Trans Healthcare System
by OS Warren
You wait five years for a gender identity clinic appointment and once you’re in, it’s a nightmare. OS Warren offers strategies for navigating our punitive trans healthcare system.
Live: The Tory Plan to Privatise the NHS
Tomorrow MPs will vote on Sajid Javid's Health and Care Bill. Does it threaten to privatise the NHS by the back door? We speak to Dr Bob Gill.
Analysis: Arise Sir Dido, Britain’s Newest Culture Warlord
by Sandeep Sandhu
Would-be NHS chief Dido Harding's attack on foreign-born health service workers is a tactical and dangerous erasure of British history, ripped straight from the Tory culture war playbook, writes Sandeep Sandhu.
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 […]
Live: Breaking Point
Experts suggest new Covid infections in England may have finally peaked, but with two more weeks of rising hospital admissions expected, can the NHS avoid collapse?
Report: More Filipino Healthcare Workers Have Died of Covid-19 in the UK Than the Philippines. Why?
by Rivkah Brown
Filipinos comprise just 2% of NHS England’s workforce, yet 25% of its coronavirus deaths. Rivkah Brown reports on why the Filipino community has suffered so disproportionately.