“The Comprehensive Range Of NHS Services Salami, Sliced Down To A Remnant Of Poor Standard Emergency Care In Fewer Locations.” — Bob Gill The British National Health Service (NHS) once stood as an internationally renowned example of a tax-funded health system that delivered public-health services to millions of British citizens, lifting a huge burden from the sick. However, the rise of neoliberal policies in the United Kingdom has targeted the NHS to become the latest victim of a U.S.-U.K. economic trade deal that would put health care services in the hands of private U.S. corporations. This means that private U.S. […]
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However no amount of tablets in the world could relieve my anger at this dishonest, deceitful, and corrupt Tory government which is literally privatising the National Health Service before our eyes and playing an almighty con-trick on the public with the shabby and shameful assistance of the pathetically docile and deferential mainstream media. The NHS Track and Trace system that Unscrupulous Johnson and Hopeless Hancock keep bleating on about doesn’t exist. They privatised it in June to reward Tory donors with lucrative government contracts despite the dubious and dodgy records of performance, including criminal behaviour, of those Tory supporting companies. This […]
British customers should use the guest WiFi of pubs, bars and restaurants as a means of aiding the upcoming COVID-19 track and trace requirements, issued by their government, argues technology firm Purple WiFi. The UK-based company, which specialises in data capture and predictive analytics, notes that it would be inefficient and less secure for businesses in the hospitality industry, which will start to re-open on 4 July 2020, to have to collect customer data from every person who comes to their premises to buy a pint or order food. Dean Cookson, Purple’s Marketing Director, explains why he thinks his company’s WiFi technology […]
A “system failure”, throughout the process in providing medication, at hospitals, primary care facilities and care homes, is unnecessarily costing people’s health and well-being, according to Professor Rachel Elliot who co-author a new study on medication error in England. Tens of millions of mistakes throughout the process of providing medication in England result in avoidable costs to the NHS of upwards of £98 million and at least 1700 lost lives, every year, according to a new peer-reviewed study, published in the British Medical Journal. Rachel Elliot, Professor of Health Economics at the University of Manchester, who co-authored the report Economic analysis of […]
The British government has released documents detailing parts of the relationship between the National Health Service and for-profit surveillance firms such as Faculty and Palantir and global consultancies such as McKinsey, following the threat of court proceedings brought by openDemocracy and Foxglove. Phil Booth, coordinator of the organisation medConfidential that campaigns for patient confidentiality and consent in Britain, explains the “devastating” revelations in the documents as well as what is still unknown about how the private information of millions of people is being handled. Sputnik: The last time we spoke you explained that NHS data was at risk from for-profit-surveillance firms. Since […]
US President Donald Trump has been touting the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic against COVID-19, referring to it as a “game-changer” in the search for potential treatments for the novel respiratory disease, despite a lack of conclusive scientific evidence or large-scale clinical trials to support this. British health workers are to take part in the first global study involving hydroxychloroquine – the drug US President Donald Trump revealed he was taking as a preventive measure against COVID-19, reported Sky News. The clinical trial that is part of a study led by the Bangkok-based Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), […]