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Tynedale Transformed are holding an online event this Sunday (March 14) on the future of the NHS. A range of issues will be discussed, including fair pay for all NHS staff, sufficient funding, privatisation, social care, recruitment, and training. The groups latest Second Sunday event will start at 2pm in-conversation with Jude Letham, co-ordinator for Keep Our NHS Public North East, a group made up of members of the public along with doctors, nursed and other health professionals who arg...

A balance sheet of a year of neoliberal pandemic responses A balance sheet of a year of neoliberal pandemic responses On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared that Covid-19 was a global pandemic. A year since, there have been more than 116.5 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 globally, including an almost 2.6 million deaths reported to the WHO. Here in the UK, government figures show that the virus has claimed nearly 125,000 lives. The death toll continues ...

20,000 lives could have been saved had lockdown happened sooner, inquiry hears The hearing was also told that a 2006 research project predicted that before 2030 a global pandemic would emerge from wild animals through mutation that would lead to a virus transmissable to humans Dont miss a thing by getting the days biggest stories sent direct to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Click here When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you ...

Last modified on Sat 27 Feb 2021 00.11 EST One of the UK’s biggest GP practice operators has quietly passed into the hands of the US health insurance group Centene Corporation, prompting calls for an official investigation into what campaigners claim is “privatisation of the NHS by stealth”. The merger is expected to create the largest private supplier of GP services in the UK, with 58 practices covering half a million patients. A coalition of doctors, campaigners and academics has voiced...

THE People’s Covid Inquiry has highlighted the disastrous effects of decades-long NHS chronic underfunding which left it struggling to deal with the coronavirus crisis. In its first of eight sessions on Wednesday night, the inquiry, led by Keep Our NHS Public (KONP), featured testimony from leading academics in health, who detailed the reasons the NHS was so close to being overwhelmed at the start of the pandemic. The inquiry, set up following the government’s refusal to hold a public inqui...

Email Address In the peak tourism seasons locals in Jackson know not to go anywhere near the town square, where elk-antler archways become choked with visitors who slash the air with selfie sticks. For $6 a head, they ride around the four-block downtown, enjoying Old West architectural flairs like wooden sidewalks and knotty pine exteriors that make the town seem a lived-in theme park of a benevolent past. A drive to the grocery store, which might take six minutes in the off-seasons, can take h...

Human rights lawyer Michael Mansfield heads up People’s Covid Inquiry into Government’s pandemic response The i 15/02/2021 David Parsley © Provided by The i Infection control nurse Colin Clarke looking out from a Covid-19 recovery ward at Craigavon Area Hospital in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland (Photo: Niall Carson/PA) A host of leading academics, campaign groups, unions and frontline workers are set to begin a four month “People’s Covid Inquiry” into the UK’s res...

Health Secretary Matt Hancock during a media briefing in Downing Street NEARLY a quarter of a million people have waited over 12 months for NHS treatment as Britain’s health service struggles to contain the coronavirus pandemic. A “world-beating” death rate has seen well over 100,000 British people die from the virus — an appalling statistic that entails tens of thousands of needless deaths. By comparison, just 25 have people died from Covid-19 in New Zealand, just 35 in Vietnam. Thi...

NHS campaigners launched a “People’s Covid Inquiry” today with key backing from leading academics, celebrities, campaigning groups, unions and front-line workers. The inquiry aims to analyse why Britain has suffered over 100,000 deaths from Covid-19 and what lessons should be learned to inform future decisions and policymaking.  It comes in the absence of a formal public investigation by officials. Human rights barrister Michael Mansfield QC will oversee the proceedings, which will be ho...

Were going to need them - festive thank you messages put up for Sunderlands NHS staff The banners appeared outside the Sunderland Royal Hospital 11:15, 31 DEC 2020 Get the latest Sunderland news and updates delivered straight to your inbox Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our...