The deep failings of NHS maternity care
Damning reports suggest Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has been causing families distress for years
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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.
The missing trusts from the maternity review
Why has the government excluded some of the worst-performing hospital units from its investigation?
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Will the government’s maternity review let families down again?
The Department of Health has announced the 14 hospital trusts it will investigate
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Drug prescription in Canada reminds me how lucky the UK is
Both countries may share a love of Taste the Difference marmalade – but medication, not so much.
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Health bosses failed to act on NHS clinic prescribing gender drugs to kids for five years
The organisations meant to safeguard care for gender-questioning young people are not working as they should.
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Why junior doctors are right to strike back
Also this week: downsizing to a flat and a bumper year for fathers over 60.
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The five-day doctors’ strike is the last thing Labour needs
The government’s promise to fix the NHS is looking increasingly untenable.
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We need a culture change in maternity services
There is something bigger going on than just staff shortages, low morale or lack of funding.
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Wes Streeting’s maternity revolution
The Health Secretary has vowed to overhaul the NHS’s most scandalous service.
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Labour promised to fix the NHS but seems set on breaking it even more
Wes Streeting appears to be the first Labour health secretary willing to countenance cutting back end-of-life care.
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Does Labour seriously want to “castrate the paedos”?
Shabana Mahmood is smuggling liberal policies under a tabloid cloak.
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Jeremy Hunt: Why targets alone won’t save the NHS
The NHS, as the world’s largest healthcare system, has become just too big and bureaucratic.
By The NHS will be paid to cut waiting lists – at great cost to patient safety
Are some people destined to become collateral damage so that lists “fall” faster?
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Medicine’s profit motive
Big Pharma has the NHS in its grip – and patients are paying the price.
By NHS staff are still traumatised by the pandemic
Despite their continuing levels of severe distress, funding has now been withdrawn from mental health hubs.
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The NHS England power grab
Also this week: The miracle of organ donation and the beauty of the bullfinch.
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Labour has finally seized command of the health service
With the dissolution of NHS England, the government has the power – and the responsibility – to truly reform healthcare.
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Q&A: The hidden crisis in the NHS
The resignation of NHS England chief Amanda Pritchard represents a chance to clear out a broken managerial system.
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Can Kim Leadbeater justify her assisted dying bill?
The MP behind this ethically transformative piece of legislation answers her critics.
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The Do No Harm dilemma
What happens when a drug that can save lives could also ruin them?
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