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13 years of Tory rule has left Britain blue
Keir Starmer will have to focus on Britons’ quality of life if he wants the country to start healing
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I’ve seen the NHS crisis close-up. Here’s how Labour can fix it
Rishi Sunak has little incentive to fix the NHS’s problems
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If the NHS belongs to us all, so does responsibility for it
Perhaps it is down to us taxpayers to ensure that the health service is fit for purpose
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There’s no easy way to tell someone they’re dying
An anonymous doctor shares how an overwhelmed NHS is struggling to care for those at the end of their lives
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Brexit is causing medicine shortages
The supply of drugs, including of antibiotics, is being squeezed
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We’re witnessing Westminster’s death of shame
The Covid Inquiry is uncovering the chaotic way the government handled the pandemic and gambled with the country’s future
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When to ignore medical guidelines
If we cannot find the courage to put the patient ahead of the guidelines, our healthcare system will do more harm harm than good
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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Mental health is a vote-winner
A clear plan from Labour on how to repair the damage the Tories have done to our mental health services will reap enormous political dividends
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Speedy Boarding for the NHS is government by gesture
The government wants to give the impression that it has thought up a policy – but it hasn’t. Not really
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How a doctor views death
An anonymous GP shares how best to deal with the end of life and why this evades Westminster's understanding
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The only cure for the NHS’s ills is more money – and that includes for consultants
Another £40billion per year is needed to keep up with what others spend
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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: The Tories’ silence on the climate crisis says it all
Across Europe, only Turkey has a higher respiratory death rate than the UK, but the government doesn’t appear to care
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Just Stop Oil must target the elite to halt climate chaos
Blocking motorways and trains only affects working people who can do nothing about the situation. And history has shown how little that actually accomplishes
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Let’s say the unsayable: only the rich paying more tax will save our NHS
Labour’s NHS Fit for the Future plan is not enough. We need more radical reform
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The NHS at 75
The new "Workforce Plan” proposed for the health service shows that, even after all this time, politicians still don’t understand
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The NHS does not need fundamental reform. It just needs to be funded properly
King’s Fund report shows a service that overachieves despite neglect from government
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Why don’t we care for our old people?
With hundreds on urgent waiting lists, Britain’s health care system is failing elderly people
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Where are the 40 new hospitals?
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Britain needs an ambulance
The German media can see the damage Brexit has done, even if the Europhobes can’t
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A doctor’s note on a dying patient
One anonymous GP explains the often overlooked realities of their job
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How do we know when someone is dead?
A bizarre encounter around a recently deceased patient made one doctor question how we define when death occurs
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It’s a simple world, says Lee Anderson
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The community care route leads to economic illiteracy
Mismanagement and serious underfunding are at the top of the list when it comes to the NHS's problems. But the community care route is not the solution
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Rishi Sunak reckons he can taunt Labour on the Welsh NHS. He’s wrong again
Sunak should take a look at the polls before berating Wales again
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Let the rich pay more tax and NI to save the NHS
Making those who can afford it pay more is the logical first step to resolve the crisis at the heart of the NHS
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Transform the NHS into an engine for the redistribution of wellbeing
When it comes to the NHS, it's time to start thinking about the future
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This is Britain’s health service
An anonymous GP writes about their experience of the parlous state of the NHS – it is heartbreaking, exhausting and frustrating – and there is no solution in sight
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Does Rishi Sunak really use an NHS GP?
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Where are they hiding the £350m a week for the NHS?
The NHS could now do with the financial boost as promised on side of the Brexit bus seven years ago
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Where Dido Harding’s loyalties lie
This week's gossip and scandals in Westminster and the media brought to you by MANDRAKE
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We need to train more doctors, not raid the poorest countries for theirs
Successive UK governments have long realised that it is cheaper to import doctors than to train our own, but it raises serious moral and ethical questions
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Why Wes Streeting stopped digging
Earlier this year, MANDRAKE advised the shadow health secretary to pose some questions in the Commons about what a drain on resources Genomics England was. Yet, he never asked a single question