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

Jack MacBean

Excluded from a recent public sector pay rise, nurses and healthcare workers have begun mobilising in their thousands to demand a pay increase. Last weekend over 40 demonstrations coalesced around a demand for a 15% pay rise for all NHS workers; now it's up to the unions to show some leadership, writes Jack MacBean.

Opinion: Now is the Time to Fight Racism in the NHS

With health professionals fleetingly elevated to the status of heroes during this pandemic, we must capitalise on this moment to ensure that meaningful steps are taken to build on the Black Lives Matter movement and dismantle racism in our healthcare system, argue junior doctors Jo Dobbin and Rahma Abdi.

Novara Live: Johnson in Retreat

Boris Johnson has been forced to make two U-turns this week. Is he a prime minister in retreat? Plus, James Meadway on whether Britain’s record debt will ever have to be paid back. With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani

Report: ‘He should never have been discharged’: How Mental Health Patients Are Being Failed During Lockdown

Natalie Leal

In the face of an already stretched mental health system, some patients' families are arguing that, in the rush to prepare for coronavirus, their relatives were let out too early and without sufficient safeguards and support in place, writes Natalie Leal.

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?

Letters: Don’t Applaud Us, Protect Us – #ChantforPPE

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Exclusive: 80 health professionals - including doctors, nurses, professors and the editors of Britain's leading medical journals - write of being concerned about the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, and ask the public to #ChantforPPE

Opinion: To Understand Why the NHS Is Struggling to Respond to Covid-19, We Must Look at Who Runs It

Jo Sutton-Klein

Coronavirus has highlighted the inertia of the NHS. This is not just down to incompetent yet powerful managers, writes doctor Jo Sutton-Klein, it is a problem with the very structures that govern our health service, impeding democracy and keeping frontline staff out of decision-making.

Novara Live: Unequal Burden

Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani are joined by Dr Sonia Adesara to discuss why BAME communities are hardest hit by coronavirus. Plus the latest on the #LabourLeaks

Migrants Want to Volunteer for the NHS, but the Government Isn’t Letting Them

Jessie Williams

Despite being made to feel the full force of the UK's hostile environment, many undocumented people are still eager to devote their time and skills to helping the country fight coronavirus. The government, however, is not allowing them to help, writes Jessie Williams.

The Bastani Factor: Britain and the Coronavirus: a Timeline of Failure

Despite previous claims by the government that it was well-prepared for the Coronavirus, Britain is now expected to have one of the highest death tolls in the world. In this video Aaron Bastani examines precisely what happened in recent months, and how public authorities – broadly unchallenged by the media – let a tragedy unfold.

Novara Live: We Were Warned

Italy gave the British government warning of the catastrophic consequences of COVID-19. So why have we entered this crisis so woefully underprepared? With Ash Sarkar, Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani