30th December 2024

‘Outright dangerous’ rundown hospitals
Matthew Taylor, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said some hospitals were so rundown “patients are being treated in unsafe and sometimes outright dangerous facilities”.

If you oppose NHS privatisation …
….then read Dr Julia Patterson here, and print an Every Doctor poster for your window here.

It’s budget cuts that they seek
A PriceWaterhouseCooper team has been sent into the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System to make cuts, otherwise known as ‘a review’, because it will fall into a £350 million deficit. This is what Integrated Care, brought in by the Tories’ Health and Care Act 2022, is really about – financial control. Regardless of geniune healthcare need, most ICSs are required to make cuts.

Stop Palantir getting your data – opt out here
Our NHS data is unique and very valuable. The government is planning a database of all our health data, called the Federated Data Platform. However it is  refusing to give guarantees that your health data will only be used for genuine research purposes and not commercial gain. This link provides two separate means to prevent your GP data and your hospital data being grabbed and copied into the FDP.