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/
The recent assassination of the CEO of #UnitedHealthcare — the health insurance company with, reportedly, the highest rate of claims rejections (and thus dead, wounded, and furious customers and their relations) — gives us a perfect window to understand the stupidity and danger of the Musk/Trump/Ramaswamy strategy of “cutting government” to “make it more efficient, run it like a corporation.”
Consider health care, which in almost every other developed country in the world is legally part of the commons — the infrastructure of the nation, like our roads, public schools, parks, police, military, libraries, and fire departments — owned by the people collectively and run for the sole purpose of meeting a basic human need.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/when-profits-kill-the-deadly-costs-e1a
#Healthcare #SaveOurNHS #NHS #CorporateTerrorism #greed #profits #PeopleNotProfits
More than 130 NHS email accounts were hijacked for a credential harvesting phishing operation targeting Microsoft users, although true scope of the attack is unknown.
During the phishing campaign – which started in October 2021 and escalated dramatically in March 2022 – cloud-based security platform Inky detected 1,157 phishing emails originating from #NHSMail, which was migrated from an on-premise installation to #Microsoft Exchange Online in February 2021.
All of the #phishing emails passed email authentication for nhs.net, and were sent from two IP addresses used by the NHS, which confirmed that the two addresses were relays within the mail system used for a large number of accounts
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252516702/NHS-email-accounts-hijacked-for-phishing-campaign
“The term the ‘sick man of Europe’ is often used to describe countries going through severe economic turmoil or social unrest. In Britain today, it has become a more literal reality,” the authors wrote.
We lag our peers on:
All bringing real challenges for children, adolescents, working-age adults, and those who have retired.
That is, the nation’s health challenges have reached historic proportions.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24589592.britain-sick-man-europe-finds-new-report-nations-health/
#NHS #SaveOurNHS #CutsKill #LabourLies #ToryLies #PrivatisationFails #Healthcare
MPs get an opportunity every year to enter a ballot for a chance to table any bill of their choice to be debated and voted on.
You have an incredible opportunity to get your MP to enter the ballot - and then work with We Own It on a bill to end NHS outsourcing.
The deadline for MPs to enter this ballot is 6pm on Wednesday 4th September.
Whether you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, this affects you because decisions made about NHS England affect funding for the NHS in every UK nation. You have just 48 hours to write to your MP to enter the ballot.
https://weownit.org.uk/its-time-legislation-end-nhs-outsourcing
#NHS #SaveOurNHS #privatisation #PeopleNotProfits #CorporateGreed
"First NHS physiotherapy clinic run by AI to start this year."
Um, what does "run by AI" mean?
"The new platform will provide same-day automated video appointments with a digital physiotherapist via an app that responds to information provided by a patient in real time."
Alrighty then.
Kommentar - Eine rote Karte für Großbritanniens Populisten
Der Sieg der britische Labourpartei zeigt: Die Populisten haben auf der Insel schon ihren Zenit überschritten.#Großbritannien #KeirStarmer #Labour #Torries #Wahlen #NHS #Populismus
Wahl in Großbritannien: Rote Karte für Populisten
Our NEW analysis reveals the NHS lost £6.7 billion to private profits since 2012 due to outsourcing - that is £10 million a week.
Outsourcing is not a neutral choice. It turns our health service into a wealth service for a handful of people.
Take just 2 minutes to send this research to your local candidates now.
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/we-send-private-shareholders-profits-£10-million-week
#NHS #SaveOurNHS #PeopleNotProfits #PrivatisationFails #greed #CorporateGreed #ToryCorruption #LabourCorruption
Overcrowding is forcing hospitals to treat so many patients in corridors and storerooms that it constitutes a “national emergency”, the UK’s nursing union has said.
The growing and widespread practice is endangering patients’ safety by leaving them without oxygen or easily able to attract staff’s attention, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned.
“Corridor care” also deprives patients of their dignity because they have to undergo intimate examinations in view of others and do not have easy access to a toilet, it added.
Hospitals become so stretched that some patients have died while being looked after in what the #RCN said were “inappropriate areas”, which can also include car parks and fracture rooms.
#ToryScum #NHS #SaveOurNHS #hospitals #healthcare #ToryCuts #Austerity #ToriesOut
STOP spending huge amounts of our taxpayer money on private agencies and give it to the NHS instead!
Private agencies, like the Foundation Group, are routinely charging hospitals nearly £2,000 per shift for specialist nurses.
Last year alone the NHS spent a staggering £10 billion on agency staff. Privatisation doesn’t work and takes away valuable staff, money and resources from the NHS at a time when it needs it most.
That’s why NHS England has come up with a comprehensive plan that would give the NHS enough permanent staff to meet the needs of patients for years to come and finally put an end to endless waiting lists.
#NHS #SaveOurNHS #PublicOwnership #PeopleNotProfits #nurses #funding #petition
https://www.genethique.org/nhs-le-sexe-est-un-fait-biologique/
Le 30 avril 2024, le National Health Service (NHS) a publié une mise à jour de sa « #Constitution », un #manifeste exposant ses #principes, #valeurs, #droits et #engagements. Le sexe y est défini comme « le sexe #biologique »
#société #politique #santé #médecine #biologie #homme #femme #idéologie #genre
You’ve got a trend there, which is the state government moving responsibility for paying for healthcare away from collective resources, taxpayer income, back on to the individual.
It’s a trend which has been happening increasingly over the past 30 years with Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem parties in charge.
#SaveOurNHS #corruption #poverty #corruption #ToryCorruption #GovernmentTerrorism #Healthcare #medical #privatisation #CorporateGreed
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/27/top-tory-mp-defects-to-labour-in-fury-at-nhs-crisis
#UK #NHS decides #gender #dysphoria is a #mental [psychological] illness and withdraws puberty blocking #drugs, after claiming that it is a physical disorder for years without clean confirmation. The drugs involved are available cheaply online. Apparently bills going through parliament might still allow them to be prescribed, despite the #reclassification.
#health #research
Oxford researchers looked at studies of healthcare #privatisation and found they agreed on one thing: privatisation leads to poorer quality care for patients.
Every month, private hospitals send 550 of their patients to the NHS because of an emergency they had while in the private hospital?
What’s more, in the last four years, 791 NHS patients who were transferred to be treated in private hospitals have sued for #medical #negligence - AND WON.
The evidence is crystal clear. Privatisation works for shareholders, not patients.
https://invidious.perennialte.ch/watch?v=sA1GK65J1x8
#SaveOurNHS #WeOwnIt #healthcare #OurNHS #PrivatisationFails #PeopleNotProfits #CorporateTerrorism #video #research #hospital
The NHS has just lived through the worst 14 years of underfunding, understaffing and outsourcing in its history.
YOU hold the power in your hands to save our NHS this general election. We do this by coming together and demanding all candidates commit to stand up for our NHS if elected. As individuals, they can ignore us. But together, they will be forced to listen to us.
Take just 2 minutes to send our letter to your local candidates now.
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/pledge-for-the-nhs
#NHS #SaveOurNHS #GeneralElection #ToriesOut #ToryDictatorship #PeopleNotProfits #OurNHS
I’m Tom Thayer, a hospital consultant. I treat patients left with horrifying mouth injuries after trying to pull out their own teeth out.
Everyone who needs an NHS dentist should be able to get an appointment.
But overstretched and underfunded, there are now fewer and fewer #NHS #dentists available. A recent survey found nine out of ten practices are no longer taking on new NHS patients
Petition:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-nhs-dentistry-2
#CutsKill #ToryDictatorship #dentists #ToryScum #profiteering #PeopleNotProfits #ToriesOut
