Hospital building repairs now £14 billion
The cost of eradicating the total for NHS building repairs reaches a new high, almost £14 billion.

No Palantir in our NHS!
NHS England has given a £330 million contract to handle unprecedented amounts of health data to an American spy-tech firm currently supplying the Israeli military with advanced AI weaponry.  Health worker campaign group Medact has launched a campaign to highlight exactly who Palantir is, and what it does.

Private healthcare invests in Streeting
Good Law Project research shows that more than 60% of the money invested in the new health secretary since he entered parliament in 2015 has come from companies and individuals with links to private health.

Permission to go to toilet?
Staff at University Hospital Southampton were told to ask for permission to go to the toilet, with women having to request extra time if they had their period. The Unite union, which represents 59 porters at UHS, opened a ballot for strike action.

Community care handed to private equity
By paying a fixed population budget, regardless of numbers of patients and treatments, the ICB transfers financial risk to the prime provider, Health Care Resourcing Group, formerly known as Virgin Care, and its subcontractors. What standard of care will a profit-making firm provide?