
Tag: healthcare


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 […]

Novara Live: Breaking Point

Report: More Filipino Healthcare Workers Have Died of Covid-19 in the UK Than the Philippines. Why?
Rivkah Brown

The Bastani Factor: The 21st Century Crisis Nobody Talks About: Demographic Ageing

Opinion: NHS Workers Are Saying No, Now It’s Time for Unions to Step Up
Jack MacBean

Report: Two-Thirds of Coronavirus Deaths Are of People With Disabilities
Sophie K Rosa

Report: Coronavirus Has Left Thousands of Trans People Unable to Access Healthcare
Hannah Green

Opinion: Britain’s Covid-19 Death Toll Goes Far Beyond Its Borders
David Wearing
Since the outbreak of Covid-19, criticism of the British government has focused on negligence within the UK’s own borders. But from Yemen to Iraq, Britain’s responsibility for the global death toll goes far further than is being reported, argues David Wearing.

‘It’s more difficult than ever’: A Volunteer on the Situation in Calais Under Coronavirus
Shona Walne

Novara Live: Failure to Protect
Last night’s Panorama revealed deep, long-term failures by government to ensure NHS staff were as safe possible from Coronavirus. But what will be the consequences?

Opinion: Undocumented Migrants Must Be Given Access to Healthcare and Welfare
Benjamin Morgan

Opinion: Coronavirus Has Destroyed the NHS Internal Market Overnight, Proving That It Never Worked
Jo Sutton-Klein

What Can the US Nurses’ Campaign for Medicare for All Teach Organisers in the UK?
Jo Beardsmore

Cold Comfort: A&E Fills With Those Left in the Cold
Dr J

No Patient is Illegal: Fighting Borders in the NHS
Erin Dexter
This week, migrant activists protested changes to UK law, which will see healthcare workers co-opted as agents in the continuing assault on the rights and lives of UK migrants. Yesterday, a group of protesters dressed as patients in hospital gowns, doctors in scrubs, and border guards blocked the path of those heading into work at the Department […]