I’m a paramedic – here’s why I’m going on strike
The government has enabled real-term pay cuts, service overloads and chronic underinvestment within the NHS.
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We rely on the NHS to be there for us in a crisis – but it is caught in a crisis of its own
Behind every 999 call is an understanding that someone will help when we are helpless – but that trust is…
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The NHS crisis has left the SNP with nowhere to hide
If Nicola Sturgeon fails to turn the health service around, it may soon be her government that finds itself in…
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Can’t Keir Starmer offer a little hope in this bleak midwinter?
While the Tories say “try not to need an ambulance”, Labour says “don’t expect us to fix everything”.
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Wes Streeting’s plan for the NHS signals a bolder Labour in 2023
Proposing radical reforms to the GP system is controversial – but it’s a big idea from a party growing in…
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“National renewal” does not come cheap
Keir Starmer’s plan for more devolution is welcome, but ameliorating our social crises will require sustained public investment.
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The SNP has no one but itself to blame for the Scottish NHS crisis
The hapless Scottish Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has come to resemble a man squashed by a falling piano.
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Are the Conservatives “defunding” the NHS in order to privatise it?
Suspicions circle among health workers that Tory ministers want the public service to fail so it can be sold off.
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Keir Starmer takes the fight to the Tories by stealing their slogans
The Labour leader is promising to help voters “take back control” over their communities.
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Keir Starmer promises to deliver “the politics Britain deserves”
In his first major speech this year, the leader of the opposition will set out his vision for the UK…
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Rishi Sunak’s New Year speech showed how out of his depth he is
Has the Prime Minister given up, or did he not have any ambition to begin with?
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How an NHS doctor burns out
My practice is out of control. I lie awake at night worrying about how a mistake could result in a…
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New year heralds no resolution for Rishi Sunak
The Prime Minister projects stability, but his plans for levelling up and childcare could reopen his party’s wounds.
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Why does nothing work in the UK anymore?
From GP appointments to trains, everything feels broken.
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Rishi Sunak could face more NHS strikes next year
Junior doctors are poised to join nurses and ambulance workers in back-to-back strikes, and public support remains high.
Wes Streeting’s comments on health unions were “blatantly untrue”, says deputy BMA chair
Emma Runswick told the New Statesman Podcast that the shadow health secretary was misleading voters in an attempt to “appear…
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Is Britain losing faith in its “national religion”?
As ambulance workers and nurses walk out on an ailing NHS, the public’s attitude towards the health service is changing.
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Strikes show how the dream of a high-wage economy died
The Conservatives have given up trying to reset what Boris Johnson described as a “broken model”.
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Who will blink first in the NHS strikes?
Rishi Sunak claims he is ready to hold out for months, but that could leave him badly isolated.
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The Tories’ 2019 manifesto looks beyond absurd three years on
The Conservatives have fulfilled scarcely a single one of their election pledges. Mostly they have achieved the precise opposite.
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