~ Tab, Andy and Simon ponder o’er yonder as NHS staff are in revolt over Palantir’s involvement in the system, while the Palestine soli…
Anarchist News Review: Anti-Palantir rebellion in the NHS
Tag: NHS
Health workers blockade NHS England HQ to protest deal with Palantir
Hundreds of NHS workers are blockading the entrance to NHS England’s headquarters in central London, demanding the cancellation of its contract wit…
Health workers close Palantir office over war profits & NHS links
Yesterday, hundreds of health workers blockaded the central London headquarters of US tech giant and spy firm Palantir.
Book review: Sick Of It All
Sick Of It All analyses Britain’s health and social care services and looks at the potential for radical change and non-capitalistic healthcare m…
Rinsed for profit
The NHS will be 75 this year.
Having a Midwife crisis
What do you do as workers when your labour IS labour?
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: the new tax rise
Boris Johnson has recently announced a 1.25% tax increase on national insurance in order to ‘help provide greater funding for health and social c…
Scrub Hub: An autonomous Mutual Aid response to COVID-19
In the Covid-19 crisis the combination of serial incompetence, public services scythed by forty years of neo-liberalism, and a callous disregard fo…
Remember on International Workers Memorial Day but also organise for a new economy
Today is International Workers Memorial Day, a time to think about workers that have been killed by capitalism.
The ‘scientific rigour’ which has left our hospitals unprepared
The following statement, released recently by Italian healthcare union USI on the running down of their national health system, could be a word for…
The Alarming Rise of Virgin Care – and Branson’s threat to the NHS
Manchester SolFed analyses the career of billionaire railway subsidies junkie Richard Branson and the ways he’s expanding into the British he…
Video collection: Jeremy Hunt running away
On May 3rd a video by Sandra Ash of Keep Our St Helier Hospital (Koshh) made it into the papers as she tried to ask Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt…
Democracy and the NHS
The mythology regarding the 1945-51 Labour governments dies hard on the left, particularly in the era of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour which often sees …
Suicide rates soar as mental health funding falls
January saw Theresa May launch her vision of a “shared society” with a focus on mental health and reducing the stigma attached to it.
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