The political and economic impact of the coronavirus
Our Political Editor, Patrick Sullivan looks at the potential political and economic consequences of Covid-19.
- 29 February 2020
Boost for Bristol mental health services as Vita Health Group is chosen to improve care
Vita Health Group, one of the UK’s leading providers of high quality mental health services is set to help people in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, following a competitive NHS tender process
- 1 July 2019
NHS IT thefts putting patient security at risk
The National Health Service (NHS) is being blighted by 17 hospital thefts a day, including confidential patient records storied on laptops, mobile phones and tablet computers, according to research from The Sunday Mirror.
- 25 February 2019
Tech industry responds to NHS digital application strategy
Calls for improved processing of digital patient records, better security protocols around wearable devices and patient applications as UK government announces multi-billion pound shake-up
- 9 September 2016
Health Secretary unveils £4.2billion NHS digital plan
Digital Transformation in the National Health Service gets a boost from Jeremy Hunt with a bumper package of online proposals including a huge investment in cyber security
- 8 February 2016
Great moments in UK dentistry, or not
Contrary to what Britons are all but indoctrinated to believe, the state-run NHS is not the envy of the world. Now, British dentistry has been castigated for falling to Third World levels
- 5 January 2016
World Health Service or National Health Service?
The NHS is being ripped off -- which means that British taxpayers are being ripped off -- by non-UK residents getting free care and claiming British money when they go home. This is part of a bigger set of questions, and we must move decisively to answer them
- 11 August 2015
Italy's health system versus the NHS
The embarrassing Olympic opening ceremony was watched by hundreds of millions of people with far better health systems than ours. Italy, as Tim Hedges recounts, just wipes the floor with the NHS. Why are we in denial?
- 1 June 2015
The NHS really is safe in Tory hands
Labour and the wider Left are constantly scaremongering that the Conservatives would wreck the NHS. That's just empty propaganda, which may explain why Miliband is making no capital out of it. If anything, the NHS is safer in Tory hands than Labour
- 1 May 2015
Nigel Farage speaks inconvenient truths about the NHS
Many found Nigel Farage's intervention about the NHS and HIV to be crass. Perhaps it was. But his underlying argument shows a far more profound understanding of our creaking National Health Service than any of the other parties which, rather pathetically, continue to play politically correct games with it
- 10 April 2015
Labour's confused approach to the NHS
The National Health Service is of vital importance to most Britons, and the Tories have much to offer. But Labour, while making it central to their campaign, appear to have nothing serious to offer, except the example of the NHS in Wales where Labour control has made matters worse
- 29 March 2015
When actors talk about national health systems
Why can't we have reason, not noise when people talk about Britain's NHS? Why can't we talk honestly about the fact that other civilised countries don't follow the bureaucratic NHS model, yet may even have better standards of healthcare?
- 9 March 2015
Why can't Britain see the real problem with the NHS?
The management structure and the power of the doctors' union, the BMA, are fundamental to understanding why Britain's NHS doesn't work properly. You wouldn't know it if you listened to the blather from most politicians and journalists
- 15 February 2015
Farage laughs off UKIP legal chief’s NHS and bigots comments
Someone inside UKIP is briefing against Matthew Richardson, the party's high flying legal officer, in a calculated smear campaign. The only question for UKIP, is who?
- 25 January 2015
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