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Why is Laura Kuenssberg ignoring NHS Privatisation?

on July 25, 2021

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Why is Laura Kuenssberg ignoring NHS Privatisation?

on July 25, 2021

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Prisoners of the system

on July 20, 2021

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Forget the spin – new English NHS bill is all about cutting our right to healthcare

on July 19, 2021

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Protestors and doctors’ union call on MPs to block new English health bill

on July 19, 2021

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Why is Laura Kuenssberg ignoring NHS Privatisation?

The likes of Laura Kuessnberg and Robert Peston love scandals, it's all they report on. But they barely say a word about maybe the biggest scandal of all, the privatisation of the NHS, which is doing serious damage to the health service as £Billions that should be going to fund nurses salaries, to pay for hospital beds and to run clinics - instead is going to private companies. When I went to A&E recently after an infection got out of control I saw the incredible pressure that the hospital reception staff are under and how that affected me and the other patients in need of care. Frankly, it was horrific and I felt like I was in a poor 3rd world country but I was not, I was in Britain, a rich country but one which that has suffered from years of brutal Neo-Liberal policies. As a result of the poverty pay and over exhausting working conditions many nurses have left the profession and now there is a shortage of 10,000s of nurses across the country. Furthermore, due to the cut in t

Prisoners of the system

ike the detainee gouging repeated marks on their cell wall, I started making one little downstroke on a page in my notebook for each time the voice on the line intoned: “Thank you for waiting. Your call is important to us and will be answered by the next available agent.” The moments between were filled with computer-composed muzak so mind-numbing that my admiration for the obstinate inmate who keeps their sanity sufficiently to remember, day after day, to scratch that wall, began to equal that for the scientists who have developed our Covid-19 vaccines. There were five full rows across the page by the time I decided that one hour of waiting was enough to prove that the organisation running the test system for those who come in to Wales from abroad did not rate my call as important. The packet containing my sample had been put in the relevant Royal Mail post box during the afternoon of 15 June. The email announcing the result finally came at 2.06am on the 20th. That late

Forget the spin – new English NHS bill is all about cutting our right to healthcare

all know the NHS has a huge backlog. As things stand, it will struggle to meet its legal obligations to provide us with the healthcare we need for the years ahead. The government faces a simple choice. It can either support the NHS to meet those obligations – ideally in a way that improves its long-term sustainability. Or it can reduce those obligations – reduce our rights to access healthcare. New English health secretary Sajid Javid claims that his goal is to “ build a better NHS and bust the backlog ”. But experts who’ve pored over the detail of the new Health and Care Bill, published last week and due for its second reading in Parliament tomorrow, have spotted alarming signs that the bill will follow the latter strategy. That it will “bust the backlog” by further reducing the government’s obligations to secure NHS care for us all – and our ability to get that care. It’s a direction of travel the government has been on for some time. But this bill goes far further – ev

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