The NHS is “a sickness service, not a health service,” say MPs
The Health and Social Care Committee wants the government to prioritise prevention alongside the NHS backlog.
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The National Health Service is the publicly funded healthcare system in England, and one of the four National Health Service systems in the United Kingdom. Find here, the New Statesman’s latest comment and analysis on the NHS, including the government’s healthcare policy, the current crisis and the future of the NHS.
Forcing sick people into work only makes the economy sick
It’s a vicious circle – aggravating illnesses only puts more pressure on the NHS.
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Hannah Barnes: Inside the collapse of the Tavistock gender clinic
The Newsnight journalist on her book Time to Think, and why she had to tell the story of the children…
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How Rishi Sunak could be out by the end of the year
If the local elections go badly and the Prime Minister fails to impress, Tory MPs may take revenge.
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Can “virtual wards” fix the NHS’s state of emergency?
As health workers go back on strike, Adrian Boyle of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine says the government's plan…
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How can NHS strikes be resolved?
Nurses and paramedics are fighting poor pay and conditions. Somehow the government needs to find the money to reverse years…
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The women locked out of fertility treatment by the BMI scale
Body Mass Index was invented by a statistician to define the “average man”. Why is it pushing women to extreme…
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Women shouldn’t have to depend on loyalty cards for diagnosis
If healthcare took female pain seriously, maybe we’d consult our GPs in the first place.
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Just repeating “Reform!” won’t magically fix the broken NHS
The reforms a system like the health service needs most can’t happen without actually spending more money.
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The NHS’s patronising cervical screening campaigns have missed the point
It’s time to start addressing the very real reasons that people are reluctant to attend smear test appointments.
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Letter of the week: The decline of general practice
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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How to fix the NHS, with Phil Whitaker
The New Statesman’s medical editor on how years of austerity have left the NHS in crisis.
I missed one of the best World Cup finals ever, but now I know all about the crisis in the NHS
We asked if we could turn the match on in A&E and were told: “This is a hospital. Not a…
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The Daily Mail’s tax statistics are an own goal
If half of income tax is paid by 10 per cent of earners, it only goes to show how unequal…
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Doctors’ union chair: prioritising private healthcare will increase inequalities
Iain Kennedy, the chair of BMA Scotland, on why charging wealthier patients will reduce NHS funding and widen the health…
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PMQs: Keir Starmer leaves Rishi Sunak squirming over the NHS catastrophe
The Labour leader showed that he intends to exploit the state of the health service at every other opportunity.
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How to save the NHS
Our medical editor spent New Year’s Day in A&E after his mother collapsed in church. In this personal essay he…
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The truth behind the worst NHS crisis
Most of the carnage unfolding is the result of political decisions, not Covid-19.
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Do the public support the nurses’ strike?
More than half of the public backs the nurses’ strike, with only about a quarter opposed.
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How Rishi Sunak is getting away with the NHS crisis
When 500 citizens are needlessly dying a week, you might reasonably think the situation demands immediate intervention.
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