As budget battles loom, NHS reform can provide Labour with much-needed purpose
After months of unsteadiness, it suggests Labour and Starmer are learning to strike a better, more sustainable political balance.
We are paying the price for neglecting women’s health
Half of women in the UK believe their health is treated as second-class by the NHS. But this isn’t just costing them; it’s costing our economy. New polling commissioned by the Create Health Foundation shows that millions of women are being failed by our health service, leading to missed work and billions in losses for […]
Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst: ‘Labour’s negative rhetoric is damaging to the NHS’
No one is denying that there are major issues facing the NHS; I saw this firsthand when I was an NHS Trauma Surgeon in Birmingham. We need to take serious, measured actions to set the NHS back on a sustainable course, reaching its patient care outcomes and delivering the service which was once deemed ‘the […]
The NHS needs long-term treatment to heal – the new government must deliver it
At the time of writing, Wes Streeting is preparing to set out his vision for transforming national health in England at the Labour Party Conference. This will be delivered in the wake of Lord Darzi’s review of the NHS, which paints a brutal but honest picture of the huge challenges facing our health services. The […]
NHS must ‘reform or die’ — Keir Starmer’s response to the Lord Darzi report in full
Keir Starmer said he aims to build an NHS “that is truly fit for the future”, but admitted the starting point “couldn’t be further from that goal.”
The battle to define Labour’s grim inheritance
For Keir Starmer, fixing the NHS is so worthwhile because of how it opens up other avenues to national regeneration.
No quick fixes for new government when it comes to NHS
The campaigning is over and the results are in, but will the new Labour government be able to make good their manifesto commitment to improve NHS services, including access to GPs and dental professionals? With the difficulties being experienced in access to NHS dental treatment in particular, it’s encouraging to see that dentistry has been […]
This general election must be a turning point for cancer
Cancer Research UK is calling for all political parties to make this general election a turning point for cancer.
The government has lost the public’s trust on the NHS — what might win it back?
The general election is upon us and once again the NHS is expected to be at the centre of the debate. Over the last 20 years, no government has ever managed to convince a majority of the public that its prescription for the health service was the right one. With the NHS consistently ranking as […]
At the general election, politicians must rally around a ‘next generation NHS’
We don’t know yet when a general election will take place but one thing is certain – the National Health Service will feature large in the political battle of ideas. We need a frank and honest debate about the future of the NHS. More than one in three people (35 per cent) are concerned about […]
