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Published in: ourNHSThe latest multi-billion pound move in NHS privatisation – is the endgame in sight?
Private healthcare firms have just been offered a substantial say in deciding how billions of pounds of NHS mental health money is spent.
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Published in: ourEconomyFood poverty has no place in 21st century Britain. It’s time to end it
It is simply unacceptable that 8.4 million British citizens struggle to put food on the table.
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Published in: ourNHSTime for Big Pharma to stop hiding behind “R&D” to justify astronomical costs
Campaigners are pushing moves to challenge the secrecy and broken model of drug pricing. But will governments have the political will to back them, and make life-saving medicines affordable for all?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?How the 5-Star Movement is losing support over broken green promises
More than 50 pages were dedicated to the environment in the M5S electoral programme, fruit of an online consultation with the movement's members. But in the "government contract" sealed with Salvini, it was down to three pages.
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Published in: ourNHSBrexit means the NHS on a platter in trade deals - and both main parties are ducking crucial questions
Both a hard Tory Brexit or a soft Labour one would worsen every aspect of the NHS crisis, from staffing to drug prices to privatisation. Why aren't we talking about this more?
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Published in: TransformationDisabled but not yet dead
Deaths from austerity make me sick. I’m fighting back using art.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy it's time to end discrimination against self-employed parents
Campaigners and MPs are calling on the government to ensure fairer rights for both self-employed parents, and for stay-at-home dads in general.
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Published in: 50.50Why Trump’s US is wrong on abortion – and what it can learn from Rwanda
The US is going after women with harsh abortion laws. But criminalisation only makes abortion unsafe. That’s why other countries are changing their approach.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLet’s not pretend the UK protects whistleblowers – it doesn’t
Julian Assange has attracted considerable political support – but our politicians are failing the less celebrated but brave individuals who blow the whistle on dangerous employers and services.
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Published in: ourNHSTen common arguments: reframing the NHS debate
The NHS's values are under attack, even more than its funding is. NHS campaigners need to be sure to frame their defences in these terms.
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Published in: TransformationCaregiving: a nascent social revolution
Care is a democratic act: what we “give”, what we “receive,” and what we “create” together.
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Published in: 50.50Religious and market fundamentalisms threaten gender equality at UN summit
As the US fosters a backlash at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, states from Lebanon to Namibia are taking more progressive positions.
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Published in: ourNHSThe NHS Ten Year Plan neglects the human side of healthcare
Markets, machines and micromanagement are turning healthcare into officious, insensitive practice that demoralises staff and patients.
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Published in: HomeDemocrats should aim for Medicare for More rather than Medicare for All
Expanding public health coverage, rather than universalising it, might be a more realistic goal.
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Published in: ourNHSBrexit or no Brexit, life-changing medicines already aren’t getting through
Big Pharma is hurting the NHS at its core – here's what we need to do, if we're bold enough.
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Published in: ourNHSWhy politicians need to 'take responsibility' for children's health too
This government is betraying children on a grand scale, and making positive ‘choices’ impossible.
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Published in: ourNHSThe budget offers the NHS scraps – and fails to see off the privatisers
There was little on offer in yesterday’s budget to meaningfully help struggling hospitals, health and social care services. So it's up to us to organise.
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Published in: HomeThe lingering legacy of Ebola in Sierra Leone
As the deadly disease appears in Congo, Sierra Leone is still counting the cost of its 2014 epidemic.
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Published in: HomeJapan, the place with the strangest drug debate in the world
Despite its relatively low drug abuse figures, the Japanese system is failing to treat addicts.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe health catastrophe in Gaza: our double standards are killing Palestinians
The right to health is severely restricted for the residents of Gaza in a way that would be inconceivable if enacted in a different setting.