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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Andrew Bridgen isn’t the only conspiracy theorist when it comes to the NHS
When things go wrong, we are all primed to go looking for someone to blame.
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Huge majority of British voters reject GP charges
As the NHS struggles, exclusive polling shows Britons overwhelmingly oppose the idea of paying for appointments.
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Could the UK emulate New Zealand’s smoking ban?
Wes Streeting recently said he wanted to phase out smoking. What would that look like?
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Most Brits say it’s fine for Rishi Sunak to use private healthcare
The Prime Minister didn’t seem to know that, as exclusive polling shows, people wouldn’t mind him paying for care.
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Rishi Sunak needs to show the public he can do more than crisis management
The PM’s current priorities are easy to achieve and do nothing to define his form of Conservatism.
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Leader: The sick man of Europe
As Britons face the worst access to healthcare across the continent, the crisis in the NHS can no longer be…
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I’m an ambulance worker – here’s the story of my shift from hell
Paramedics and 999 call handlers are striking in England and Wales. One reveals the reality of their working conditions, as…
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