12th December 2025

UK agrees to Trump’s demand to pay more for drugs
The NHS buys US drugs in such bulk that we get them at a reduced price, standard market logic. But Starmer has sold us down the river to avoid Trump tariffs, we now will pay £3 billion more. He’s mugged us!

Outsourcing NHS eye care
There are concerns that private companies are milking NHS funding and taking both revenue and staff from NHS eye care leaving hospitals with fewer resources to treat more complex patients, including those with diseases which lead to irreversible sight loss.

PFI hospital “a fire risk”
£50million was loaned to the PFI company to build the Whittington in 2004. The  hospital had to make massive repayments to a PFI company for 35 years. The trust stopped making the payments after the PFI company failed to  properly maintain the building. Now the PFI company’s administrators are currently suing the Whittington as the initial loan has not been repaid. Should our healthcare be mired in such a mess?

NHS safety watchdog finds EPR is a risk
Common issues highlighted in a review of Electronic Patient Record (EPR) keeping included clinicians being unable to access information needed to provide patient care, or a lack of controls in the system to mitigate against known risks.

Nurses to strike over rotating work locations
Nurses from the intensive care unit (ICU) at Bassetlaw Hospital are set to take further strike action over proposals for staff to rotate between hospitals. They fear the loss of ICU at the Bassetlaw site.