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Feature: Is the ‘Uber of Psychiatry’ Actually Helping People?

John Lubbock

Psychiatry UK’s income has more than doubled in the last year, while patients report being summarily dropped from its services, writes John Lubbock. Is for-profit, on-demand mental healthcare what patients need?

Opinion: Starmer Has Already Perfected the Art of Doing the Least

Rivkah Brown

Labour’s first-week “announcement blitz” featured a pledge from Reeves not to build council houses and Miliband’s “completely fabricated” ban on new oil and gas licenses. Welcome to Starmerism, writes Rivkah Brown – hope you ate before you came.

Report: Labour Deletes ‘The NHS Is Not for Sale’ From Its Manifesto

Rivkah Brown

The party’s 2024 manifesto has removed the clause agreed upon at the last conference. Is soon-to-be health secretary Wes Streeting trying to tell us something? Rivkah Brown reports.

Report: US Health Companies Are Winning NHS Contracts Despite Dodgy Track Records

Andrew Kersley

Chronically ill NHS patients are fighting back against plans to privatise their services. Andrew Kersley reports.

A man stands outside the Margarete Centre in north London

Feature: Charities Are Taking Over NHS Drug Clinics and Patients Are Terrified

Daisy Schofield

A drug clinic is set to close after 56 years as a wave of outsourcing sweeps the NHS. Service users told Daisy Schofield they fear for their lives.

A group of woman in winter coats, scarves and hats in bright colours hold a bright blue banner on which is written in multicoloured writing: 'The only good Tory is a suppository'.

Opinion: Trust Me, Private Healthcare is a Shitshow

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?

Tony Blair waves in front of a bunch of roses at Labour party conference. Behind him a screen reads "the NHS"

Opinion: Like It or Not, New Labour Offers Important Lessons for Saving the NHS

Ell Folan

Though rightly overshadowed by the Iraq War, the Blair government increased NHS spending by 56% and cut waiting times by 9 weeks. We must not be too averse to learning from this achievement, writes Ell Folan - our dying health service depends on it.

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 […]