Ministers urged to guarantee #NHS jobs for new #midwives amid #understaffing

Student midwife fears she will be unable to get job after 2,300 hrs of unpaid work in NHS calling for guaranteed posts for newly qualified midwives who otherwise are forced to abandon profession before career begin

Aimee Peach is to complete her training next summer, but promise of a job at the end of 3 year degree course collapsed despite severe shortages of midwives
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/20/student-midwife-guaranteed-nhs-jobs-graduates

#England can learn from #Scotland's population #health plan

The framework is important guiding light over next 10 years in recognising what determines the Scottish population’s health and wellbeing is more than health care: that sectors and approaches need to work together to improve #health (working well in their own silos is not enough), and that living a good life matters as well as length of life

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25318069.england-can-learn-scotlands-population-health-plan-says-think/

No #PFI in Neighbourhood Health Services

We demand no “Public Private Partnership” (PFI) to finance Neighbourhood Health Centres

PFI's led to NHS paying up to 27x over for hospitals. Some #NHS Trusts STILL wasting 13% of their budgets on old PFI deals

Even the #Conservative government said ‘goodbye to PFI’ because it is bad value for money.

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-new-pfi-in-neighbourhood-health-services

#Britain’s medieval #health inequality devastating NHS

Rising #child #poverty led to growing burden on #hospitals, with knock-on cost to #NHS equal to annual defence budget

Senior NHS figure said “medieval” levels of untreated illness in Britain’s poorest communities, included people attending A&E “with cancerous lumps bursting through their skin”

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/29/britains-medieval-health-inequality-is-devastating-nhs-experts-say

England #NHS #hospital funding to be tied to patient ratings where healthcare providers lose funding if patients are unhappy

NHS Confederation said, Patient experience is determined by far more than interaction with clinicians thus unless it's very carefully designed & evaluated, providers will be penalised for systemic (govt) issues

Govt is primarily responsible for patient outcomes. When #OurNHS not fully funded, service is worse

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/28/nhs-hospital-funding-could-be-tied-to-patient-satisfaction-under-government-plans

Why Is Cancer Drug Revlimid So Expensive?

When I was diagnosed with #cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of #Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone.

I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me.

https://www.propublica.org/article/revlimid-price-cancer-celgene-drugs-fda-multiple-myeloma

England GPs will be able to claim £20 per patient for seeking specialist advice

GPs will be paid £20 each time they decide not to send a patient to hospital under a government scheme

GPs will be able to claim money if they instead seek advice from a #hospital doctor or specialist before a decision is taken about referring #patients for tests & treatment in out-of-hospital setting

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/17/gps-in-england-will-be-able-to-claim-20-for-every-time-patient-is-not-sent-to-hospital

#NHS cancer patients denied life-saving drugs due to #Brexit costs, report finds

Exclusive: Britons found to have ‘lost out’ while rest of #Europe benefits from golden age of research and treatments

#British #cancer patients are being denied life-saving drugs and trials of revolutionary treatments are being derailed by the red tape and extra costs brought on by Brexit, a leaked report warns.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/20/nhs-cancer-patients-denied-life-saving-drugs-due-to-brexit-costs-report-finds

Completely #unethical: Women excluded from life-saving vaccine

Women in #Scotland being left at risk of killer #cancer because of refusal to fund preventative #vaccine through #NHS

Females aged 26-45 are currently excluded from the #HPV vaccine which protects against #cervical cancer and genital warts even though it is offered to men in high-risk groups in the same age category.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25029802.completely-unethical-women-excluded-life-saving-vaccine/

Key lessons of Covid are being forgotten UK scientists warn

The government promised to learn from the #pandemic but appears to be suffering from #Covid amnesia, forgetting devastating cost of an underfunded #health service & public services cut to the bone

There's no evidence the health service would be any better prepared today should another #lethal #virus appear in the near future, scientists said.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/23/key-lessons-of-covid-are-being-forgotten-uk-scientists-warn

Streeting appoints health privatiser to oversee NHS slash-and-burn plan

Wes #Streeting, Health Secretary said he’ll let the NHS #die if the UK people don’t accept his ‘reforms’, has appointed a closure advocate who used to work for McKinsey – one of the key firms behind the #Tories’ assault on the #NHS – to formalise the implementation of a ‘ten-year plan’ of #cuts, #closures & #privatisation.

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/02/04/streeting-appoints-health-privatiser-to-oversee-10-year-nhs-slash-and-burn-plan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=streeting-appoints-health-privatiser-to-oversee-10-year-nhs-slash-and-burn-plan

Emergency care petition

Dear Health Secretary Wes Streeting,

Patients are DYING in corridors. This is a national emergency.

We urge you to reopen the 100+ urgent and emergency care services (including 24 A&Es) that have been closed by the Conservatives since 2010.

Sign here is 15 seconds:

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/emergency-care-petition

Labour’s vision for the NHS is getting grim

As #Labour tries to please both #private and public interests, its policies for the #NHS are in danger of costing a lot and achieving little

Labour’s seeming preoccupation with ensuring the private sector benefits in some way from any investment in the NHS, is incongruent with both the #healthcare crisis and any sense of #economic prudence.

https://bylines.scot/health/labours-vision-for-the-nhs-is-getting-grim/

Tell #Labour - NO PFI in OurNHS!

Health Secretary #Streeting is deciding to accept #PFI deals from #private #health Corporations

They want £1 billion to expand their OWN facilities for their #profit

Research shows PFI deals by Blair’s govt still crippling #OurNHS by £44 billion

If deal goes ahead, our NHS will waste even more money on #private #profits that should go to caring for patients

Tell #WesStreeting here

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell-wes-streeting-no-new-pfi-our-nhs

A de-registered from #Lerwick #Dental Practice patient has complained of being left in “tremendous pain” with with #toothache – with no offer of treatment.

The patient was among the 2,000 who were told they were being de-registered by early next year.

A further 4,000 patients are also at risk of de-registration.

#Shetland MSP Beatrice Wishart highlighted the patient’s complaint during a session of First Minister’s Question yesterday

https://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2024/11/29/de-registered-dental-patient-in-tremendous-pain-with-toothache

#NHS #cartoons #SaveOurNHS #ToryLies #LabourLies #OurNHS #Starmer

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/oct/21/rebecca-hendin-labour-plans-nhs-cartoon#img-1

#NHS community services privately sold off in Wiltshire for £1.3bn

#LabourLies

There’s no other way to dress this up, except for the headline: the Labour Party just oversaw a £1.3 BILLION SELL-OFF of NHS community services to a private equity firm, in Wiltshire.

https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2024/10/17/nhs-services-wiltshire/

Woman’s warning after horror #surgery left chest rotting

#PrivatisationFails

Nursery worker warning women only to get breast reductions done with the #NHS after £8k private op to reduce her size K boobs left her chest rotting

Paige Harvey went under the knife at a #private clinic in a bid to rid herself of agonising back pain & skin tears

Paige was turfed out of the clinic just 2 hours the surgery while still high as a kite

https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/24624780.womans-warning-horror-surgery-left-chest-rotting/

Worrying health trends continue under Labour’s #austerity

Labour austerity policies risk continuing exceptionally worrying & unprecedented health trends, poverty expert has warns

Prof McCartney’s comments came as new report branded #UK the sick man of Europe because high number of citizens suffering ill health

#Labour said it will reform NHS but Professor McCartney said it necessary to ensure people had sufficient income for health to improve

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24600838.worrying-health-trends-continue-labours-austerity/

The 'Sick man of Europe' describes countries with severe economic turmoil or social unrest. #Britain today, it's a literal reality

We lag our peers on

- Health outcomes
- Number with a long-term condition rising
- People are longer in poor health
- Health is worsening throughout one's life

All bring huge challenges for children, adolescents, working-age adults, & retired

UK's health problems have reached historic proportions

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24589592.britain-sick-man-europe-finds-new-report-nations-health/