#Scottish #Labour take £200k in private healthcare-linked donations
Scottish Labour exposed over research which finds its #MPs have received nearly £200,000 from donors linked to #private #healthcare.
The #SNP have said that leader Anas #Sarwar must “come clean”.
Earlier this year, #EveryDoctor revealed that MPs had bagged more than £2.7m in donations from people with links to the private healthcare sector.
Ministers urged to guarantee #NHS jobs for new #midwives amid #understaffing
Student midwife fears she will be unable to get job after 2,300 hrs of unpaid work in NHS calling for guaranteed posts for newly qualified midwives who otherwise are forced to abandon profession before career begin
Aimee Peach is to complete her training next summer, but promise of a job at the end of 3 year degree course collapsed despite severe shortages of midwives
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/20/student-midwife-guaranteed-nhs-jobs-graduates
#England can learn from #Scotland's population #health plan
The framework is important guiding light over next 10 years in recognising what determines the Scottish population’s health and wellbeing is more than health care: that sectors and approaches need to work together to improve #health (working well in their own silos is not enough), and that living a good life matters as well as length of life
No #PFI in Neighbourhood Health Services
We demand no “Public Private Partnership” (PFI) to finance Neighbourhood Health Centres
PFI's led to NHS paying up to 27x over for hospitals. Some #NHS Trusts STILL wasting 13% of their budgets on old PFI deals
Even the #Conservative government said ‘goodbye to PFI’ because it is bad value for money.
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-new-pfi-in-neighbourhood-health-services
#Britain’s medieval #health inequality devastating NHS
Rising #child #poverty led to growing burden on #hospitals, with knock-on cost to #NHS equal to annual defence budget
Senior NHS figure said “medieval” levels of untreated illness in Britain’s poorest communities, included people attending A&E “with cancerous lumps bursting through their skin”
England #NHS #hospital funding to be tied to patient ratings where healthcare providers lose funding if patients are unhappy
NHS Confederation said, Patient experience is determined by far more than interaction with clinicians thus unless it's very carefully designed & evaluated, providers will be penalised for systemic (govt) issues
Govt is primarily responsible for patient outcomes. When #OurNHS not fully funded, service is worse
That's some seriously messed up politics, if a Labour minister benefits from a strike.
But you may be right. If Streeting's overall objective is privatisation (as I fear), then strikes may help him justify that.
No, just no!
Cutting management is one thing, but no cuts to #NHS frontline staff or services. If it's over budget, then #TaxTheRich and bring in more revenue.
BBC News - NHS plans 'unthinkable' cuts to balance books - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgle2xkg3wpo
Why Is Cancer Drug Revlimid So Expensive?
When I was diagnosed with #cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of #Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone.
I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me.
https://www.propublica.org/article/revlimid-price-cancer-celgene-drugs-fda-multiple-myeloma
Ugg!
How can we get thru to #Labour that there is a super-easy solution that everyone is expecting? Increase taxes on the wealthy to fund a major investment in NHS staff and facilities.
England GPs will be able to claim £20 per patient for seeking specialist advice
GPs will be paid £20 each time they decide not to send a patient to hospital under a government scheme
GPs will be able to claim money if they instead seek advice from a #hospital doctor or specialist before a decision is taken about referring #patients for tests & treatment in out-of-hospital setting
#NHS cancer patients denied life-saving drugs due to #Brexit costs, report finds
Exclusive: Britons found to have ‘lost out’ while rest of #Europe benefits from golden age of research and treatments
#British #cancer patients are being denied life-saving drugs and trials of revolutionary treatments are being derailed by the red tape and extra costs brought on by Brexit, a leaked report warns.
Completely #unethical: Women excluded from life-saving vaccine
Women in #Scotland being left at risk of killer #cancer because of refusal to fund preventative #vaccine through #NHS
Females aged 26-45 are currently excluded from the #HPV vaccine which protects against #cervical cancer and genital warts even though it is offered to men in high-risk groups in the same age category.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25029802.completely-unethical-women-excluded-life-saving-vaccine/
Key lessons of Covid are being forgotten UK scientists warn
The government promised to learn from the #pandemic but appears to be suffering from #Covid amnesia, forgetting devastating cost of an underfunded #health service & public services cut to the bone
There's no evidence the health service would be any better prepared today should another #lethal #virus appear in the near future, scientists said.
I was going to provide links to relevant research, but I think this cartoon says it all.
Hat tip to Eddie Cooper at bluesky.social
Streeting appoints health privatiser to oversee NHS slash-and-burn plan
Wes #Streeting, Health Secretary said he’ll let the NHS #die if the UK people don’t accept his ‘reforms’, has appointed a closure advocate who used to work for McKinsey – one of the key firms behind the #Tories’ assault on the #NHS – to formalise the implementation of a ‘ten-year plan’ of #cuts, #closures & #privatisation.
Emergency care petition
Dear Health Secretary Wes Streeting,
Patients are DYING in corridors. This is a national emergency.
We urge you to reopen the 100+ urgent and emergency care services (including 24 A&Es) that have been closed by the Conservatives since 2010.
Sign here is 15 seconds:
@therightarticle
Go on, Jeremy, gerrinto 'im!
Labour’s vision for the NHS is getting grim
As #Labour tries to please both #private and public interests, its policies for the #NHS are in danger of costing a lot and achieving little
Labour’s seeming preoccupation with ensuring the private sector benefits in some way from any investment in the NHS, is incongruent with both the #healthcare crisis and any sense of #economic prudence.
https://bylines.scot/health/labours-vision-for-the-nhs-is-getting-grim/
* A warning to the 
