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

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.

I’m a Social Work Student Who Went on Fee Strike. Here’s What I Learned

an Anonymous Student

Social work students at Goldsmiths university went on strike last year, when they discovered at the last minute that their NHS bursaries would not be enough to cover their increased course fees. One participant reflects on what he hoped to achieve and what he learned from taking part in the UK's first student fee strike.

Tory Promises to Improve Mental Healthcare Ignore the Reality of Living With Mental Illness

Erika Mastrorosa

Here's why simplistic rhetoric and a small investment are not going to fix a broken system, which is letting people down.

Serco vs Staff: Why Barts Health Cleaners Are Voting to Strike

Rhian Smith

Last year Barts Health NHS Trust awarded a £600m ten-year cleaning, portering and security contract to outsourcer Serco. But due to unmanageable workloads, poor pay and inadequate resources, hospital staff are now voting on taking strike action.

Long Read: Killing Us Softly: A Short History of Biopower in the NHS

Sophie Monk and Joni Cohen

This week's long read exposes the phony narrative of an NHS for all, instead revealing an institution that has, from its conception, existed to serve the needs of capital.

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 […]

IMOBastani: We Will Lose Our NHS

Aaron shows four key areas where the NHS is in freefall. The solution to the present crisis? More resources, an end to outsourcing and, of course, the resignation of Jeremy Hunt.

IMOBastani: Jeremy Hunt is Killing the NHS

Last week the CEO of the British Red Cross said the NHS was facing a 'humanitarian crisis'. Aaron looks at the service's recent problems and how they reflect an intentional project, by the Tory Party, to privatise healthcare in the UK.

IMOBastani: Who is Paul Nuttall?

Aaron Bastani unpacks some of the policies of UKIP's new leader

Department for Education Emails Reveal a Crisis in Children’s Mental Health Policy

Jessica Brown

In May the mental health for schools champion was fired for criticising government policy, suggesting the Tories are more concerned with PR than children's mental wellbeing.

Treat, Don’t Police! Fighting the Immigration Act in the NHS

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.

Beyond TTIP: The Murky Pro-Corporate Trade Agenda is Bad For Our Health

Diane Abbott

Although the EU referendum brought TTIP out into the light, Brexit won't stop the threat posed to public services by the pro-corporate trade agenda

‘The government destroyed their trust’ – Reflections on the Junior Doctor Dispute and Next Steps in Defence of the NHS

Nicolas Carpenter

This week junior doctors voted to reject the government's revised contract offer. Where next for the fight for the NHS?

How to Open up a Second Front in the Battle for the NHS

Keir Milburn

Today's all-out junior doctors' strike marked a step up in the fight for the NHS: not only was it the first healthcare strike where emergency cover was left to consultants, but supporters also targeted those who stand to gain from the privatisation of the NHS.

3 Reasons the Fight for the NHS Needs to Go on the Offensive

Callum Cant

Beyond the unsafe contracts being imposed on junior doctors, it's clear the current wave of strikes is also about the future of the NHS. With private providers waiting to pick at the carcass of universal healthcare, it's time to turn the pressure up.

The Fix: Can the Junior Doctors’ strike save the NHS?

This week Michael Walker is joined by Aislinn Macklin-Doherty, Youssef El-Gingihy, Ellie-Mae O’Hagan and Paul McCrone to discuss the ongoing junior doctors' dispute and whether junior doctors can save our NHS from privatisation.

How and Why Junior Doctors Turned on the Tories

Eben Jones

The junior doctors' contract dispute has played out against the government's stance of wilful misinterpretation, collusion, and an absolute refusal to negotiate. What began as an unlikely prospect of strike action shows few signs of subsiding.

‘Bikers 4 Strikers’: 4 Reasons We All Need to Get On Our (Proverbial) Bikes to Support Junior Doctors

Elly Robson

Yesterday's junior doctors' strike (the first of three planned actions) was about the future of the NHS, so cyclists from across the capital formed a 'flying' picket to support strikers. Here's why you should support your local picket line on 26 January and 10 February.

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