The corruption involved in the Tories' PPE and other government contracts throughout the pandemic are well documented. This week, reporting exposed Baroness Mone's financial gain from the fast-track system.
Tag: NHS
The NHS is in crisis. It needs investment, not #AutumnStatement austerity – Holly Turner, NHS Workers Say No
Speaking in response to the Autumn Statement, Holly Turner, NHS Workers Say No, highlighted the real terms cut in funding and the Tory driven crisis in the NHS.
#AutumnStatement: increase in NHS funding is a real terms cut! – Just Treatment
In the Autumn Statement Jeremy Hunt has unleashed a new wave of austerity. Claiming to put the NHS first with a £3.3bn funding increase... in reality, this is a real terms cut - Just Treatment
Ambulance workers in England in strike vote – Unite
Strike ballots for nearly 3,000 ambulance workers have opened this week. Paramedics, ambulance drivers and emergency call handlers are voicing their anger over unfair pay.
If we don’t fight for the NHS it won’t survive until the next General Election – Kate Osborne MP
"People need a government that will tackle the cost of living crisis that the Tories have caused – not a continuation of their cuts to the NHS and public services."
Running down the NHS – the Tory commodification of healthcare
The NHS has always been a test of socialism versus capitalism and this paper offers hard evidence of the failure of neoliberal capitalism inappropriately applied to the NHS" - a look at the latest report of the Tories commodification of healthcare.
Covid-19 Pandemic is not over, It is still destroying lives – Covid Action UK
"The Tories claim vaccination is the only protection we need, despite Omicron subvariants continuously breaching vaccine boundaries through mutation, and repeatedly reinfecting the population."
NHS Under Siege: the fight to save it in the age of covid – review
"A decade of austerity has left the NHS in a critical state." Mike Phipps reviews NHS Under Siege: The Fight to Save it in the age of Covid.
Whichever Tory wins, the NHS loses
"Both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss offer the most simplistic and self-defeating solutions"... whoever wins the Tory Leadership election, it will be bad news for our NHS.
Time to fill the streets, see you on 18th June – Holly Turner, NHS Workers Say No
"Two food banks have been opened by NHS Trusts in my Region for Staff struggling with the cost-of-living crisis" - march for your NHS and the staff who tirelessly work to keep us safe.