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COVID-19 Pandemic Reveals Devastating Impacts of Tory Austerity on N.H.S.
The UK’s overstretched health service is resorting to desperate measures: millions of planned operations are being postponed and patients are being urgently discharged to help tackle the pandemic.
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Whatever You Do, Don’t Get Sick in Post-Brexit Britain!
The Brexiteers promised an additional £350 million a week for healthcare. Now less than six months away from the country's departure from the E.U., Britain’s health system is on the brink of collapse.
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Conservatives Make Us Sick: How Relentless Tory Austerity is Wrecking U.K. Healthcare
Hospitals throughout Britain have been operating in chaos in recent weeks, driven by a surge in admissions forcing up to 12-hour delays for patients being treated in emergency wards. A decade of harsh Tory austerity policies are to blame.
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Why Labour's Election Manifesto Is "A Breakthrough for Popular Interests"
"What could be more popular than turning rail, water, energy and post into publicly owned entities and stopping shareholders from creaming off profit and public subsidies?” asks author Richard Seymour, in response to the Labour Party manifesto.
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British Medical Revolt As Brexit Pushes Non-UK Doctors Off the Island
"The reality is that the [British] government does not appreciate what E.U. nationals like me have contributed to the U.K., and only sees us as bargaining chips," says Dr. Birgit Woolley, from Germany, after decades working in the UK.
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South Manchester Hospital Embodies NHS Success Even As Deep Healthcare Cuts Set In
Stepping Hill Hospital is operating under intense financial pressure – but is still saving lives – as the U.K. government continues to make billions of pounds’ worth of cuts to Britain’s NHS.
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UK Is At Bottom Of O.E.C.D. In Healthcare – But Leaders Still Deny Austerity Is to Blame
Public discontentment with the National Health Service rose in 2014 more sharply than in any other year on record – and Britain now ranks 28th out of 30 among developed countries in terms of the quality of its healthcare.
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England’s Soaring Death Rate Tied to Government Austerity That Slashed Health Services
Last year saw the highest number of deaths in England in nearly half a century – a burgeoning mortality rate now being pinned to government cuts in social services and other austerity measures in one of the richest nations on Earth.
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Doctors Be Damned: Unfair Health Contract Sparks Exodus of UK Medical Professionals
The government's new contract is "a deliberate process to undermine, fragment and cheapen the entire workforce and enable a transition to a U.S.-style, insurance based system – which is less fair and is not cheaper, far from it."
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New UK Health Contract A Disaster: "I Can't Work For A Government That Clearly Despises Me"
Defying an unprecedented wave of strikes by the British medical establishment, the government announced last week that junior doctors must accept increased working hours, reduced pay and a removal of safeguards against overworking.
