18th February 2023

18th February 2023

New strikes will include A&Es and cancer care
A two-day continuous strike, the largest such action in NHS history will include cancer wards, A&E departments and intensive care units in England. It will run for 48 hours from 6am on 1st March.

NHS consultants run private firms to cut waiting lists
Senior NHS clinicians are earning a lucrative sideline running private firms that offer to cut waiting lists at their own hospitals. Top consultants in Manchester, Sheffield and London are among directors of so-called “insourcing” agencies.

Should we have McKinsey involved in our NHS?
The US giant consultancy firm McKinsey has been appointed to create a new data model for NHSE. It will advise bringing together the internal systems across the NHS. What’s wrong with that? McKinsey has unsavory work with fossil fuel companies, cigarette-makers, opioid distributors, regulatory agencies and autocratic regimes and its cost-cutting recommendations downplayed safety concerns at U.S. Steel, Disneyland and American immigration centers.

Streeting: “We’d use private hospitals”
Wes Streeting said a Labour government would use private hospitals to help out the NHS. But since 2010 the NHS has been starved of funding, so that now it’s on its knees. While a sizeable chunk of its budget has been siphoned off to private healthcare.