Why Britain needs a National Civic Service
Reweaving the social fabric would halt our atomisation, alienation and descent into authoritarianism.
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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.
Can the NHS workforce plan rescue the health service?
Questions of politics and economics will influence the success or failure of Britain’s “national religion”.
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We have sleepwalked into a major gap in cancer care
As demand outstrips capacity, doctors face the moral injury of knowing that we can’t do the best for our patients.
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Labour anger grows over Wes Streeting’s media blitz
Party sources complain that the shadow health secretary was awarded 18 spots in the party’s publicity schedule to promote his…
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Letter of the week: Our carbon dependency
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“The NHS saved my life”: MPs and peers on the health service
To mark the NHS’s 75th anniversary, parliamentarians recount their experiences of receiving care.
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How to deliver healthier lives for the next 75 years
Innovation has improved longevity, but we must ensure nobody is left behind.
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Rosena Allin-Khan: “This is Tory Britain, where we examine patients in cupboards”
The shadow mental health minister on her double life as a doctor and politician, and Labour’s plans to fix the…
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“Outdated” IT and digital skills gap hinder NHS digital transformation, say MPs
New report reveals legacy tech is a barrier to progress for the health service.
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Ditching the NHS for a new model won’t fix healthcare
As the workforce plan is released, international comparisons highlight the best prescription for the health service.
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“I’m feeling gently told off”: Wes Streeting and Dr Phil Whitaker in conversation
As the NHS faces its worst crisis, the shadow health secretary joined the GP for a day at his Somerset…
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Expert comment and analysis from Rosena Allin-Khan MP, Ed Davey MP, Neil O'Brien MP, Dawn Butler MP and Maria Caulfield…
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Fifty days on an NHS ward
Over months of treatment, I have seen the best and the worst of healthcare in Britain.
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The NHS: a history of political interference
The health service was opposed by doctors from the start, and has suffered decades of ministerial harm. Can Labour fix…
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The NHS’s decline will have political consequences
People still value the service but they don’t think it’s well run.
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Where is the NHS workforce plan?
The time for promises and postponements has passed.
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Wendy Mitchell’s Q&A: “It wasn’t until I had dementia that books became a joy”
The campaigner on living with her diagnosis, Barack Obama and her love of Gogglebox.
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The family doctor knows best
A sweeping history of the NHS and one GP’s inside account of a long career on the front line.
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The sick society
How Big Pharma and the charity health sector are making us a nation of the worried well.
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More medical school places will not automatically mean more junior doctors
A lack of postgraduate training is creating a specialist workforce shortage.
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