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#SaveOurNHS

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Completely #unethical: Women excluded from life-saving vaccine

Women in #Scotland being left at risk of killer #cancer because of refusal to fund preventative #vaccine through #NHS

Females aged 26-45 are currently excluded from the #HPV vaccine which protects against #cervical cancer and genital warts even though it is offered to men in high-risk groups in the same age category.

thenational.scot/news/25029802

The National · ‘Completely unethical’: Women excluded from life-saving vaccineBy Nan Spowart
#SaveOurNHS#PeopleNotProfit#PeopleNotGreed
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Key lessons of Covid are being forgotten UK scientists warn

The government promised to learn from the #pandemic but appears to be suffering from #Covid amnesia, forgetting devastating cost of an underfunded #health service & public services cut to the bone

There's no evidence the health service would be any better prepared today should another #lethal #virus appear in the near future, scientists said.

theguardian.com/world/2025/mar

The Guardian · ‘Key lessons of Covid are being forgotten,’ UK scientists warnBy Robin McKie
#NHS#SaveOurNHS#PrivatisationFail
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Streeting appoints health privatiser to oversee NHS slash-and-burn plan

Wes #Streeting, Health Secretary said he’ll let the NHS #die if the UK people don’t accept his ‘reforms’, has appointed a closure advocate who used to work for McKinsey – one of the key firms behind the #Tories’ assault on the #NHS – to formalise the implementation of a ‘ten-year plan’ of #cuts, #closures & #privatisation.

skwawkbox.org/2025/02/04/stree

SKWAWKBOX · Streeting appoints health privatiser to oversee 10-year NHS slash-and-burn planHealth Secretary who has threatened to let NHS die if he doesn’t get his way with it appoints former health privatiser partner to draft implementation plan Health Secretary Wes Streeting, lef…
#PeopleNotProfits#SaveOurNHS#OurNHS
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Labour’s vision for the NHS is getting grim

As #Labour tries to please both #private and public interests, its policies for the #NHS are in danger of costing a lot and achieving little

Labour’s seeming preoccupation with ensuring the private sector benefits in some way from any investment in the NHS, is incongruent with both the #healthcare crisis and any sense of #economic prudence.

bylines.scot/health/labours-vi

Bylines Scotland · Labour’s vision for the NHS is getting grimAs Labour tries to please both private and public interests, its policies for the NHS are in danger of costing a lot and achieving little
#SaveOurNHS#corruption#LabourLies
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Tell #Labour - NO PFI in OurNHS!

Health Secretary #Streeting is deciding to accept #PFI deals from #private #health Corporations

They want £1 billion to expand their OWN facilities for their #profit

Research shows PFI deals by Blair’s govt still crippling #OurNHS by £44 billion

If deal goes ahead, our NHS will waste even more money on #private #profits that should go to caring for patients

Tell #WesStreeting here

weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell-we

Image with Labour's Health Secretary Wes Streeting with a dimmed photo protest in London with huge sign stating, "NHS Privatisation Kills" Text in foreground of image: Tell Wes Streeting: No new PFI in our NHS There is a 'We Own It' logo in the bottom, right hand corner of the image.
#corruption#Healthcare#SaveOurNHS
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A de-registered from #Lerwick #Dental Practice patient has complained of being left in “tremendous pain” with with #toothache – with no offer of treatment.

The patient was among the 2,000 who were told they were being de-registered by early next year.

A further 4,000 patients are also at risk of de-registration.

#Shetland MSP Beatrice Wishart highlighted the patient’s complaint during a session of First Minister’s Question yesterday

shetlandtimes.co.uk/2024/11/29

The Shetland Times · De-registered dental patient in 'tremendous pain' with toothache - The Shetland TimesA de-registered from Lerwick Dental Practice patient has complained of being left in  “tremendous pain” with with toothache – with no offer of treatment.
#dentists#Scotland#SaveOurNHS
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Stingray's Badger Friend

@glynmoody

It's hard to believe we live in a world where Diabetics have to ration their insulin supply or risk death, despite the drug being developed for more than 40 years.

Thanks

Thanks for failing to protect medicines supplies

Thanks to for not caring unless they can make money

theguardian.com/society/2024/a






The Guardian · Insulin shortages ‘causing stress and anxiety’ for UK diabetes patientsBy Denis Campbell
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Stingray's Badger Friend

Here in the UK, our governments ( and ) have turned our national asset, the and system, from a high quality, caring, safe service into fodder for global private equity companies, who are suckling every drop of value from us, while being supported by the British Taxpayer.

Much of Cory Doctorow's analysis of US private equity feeding off healthcare applies to the UK too.

Be scared.

pluralistic.net/2024/02/28/500
@pluralistic

pluralistic.netPluralistic: When private equity destroys your hospital (28 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

The engineered crisis of the was always intended to push the better off into the arms of private , but it has also had the effect of producing a socio-economic rationing of care across the system.

For the this is another 'win' as the more they can discredit the NHS' character as a universal system, the less the NHS will be able to rely on a socio-political support/defence...

from these wreckers!

theguardian.com/society/2024/m

The Guardian · Worst-off find it harder than well-off to access NHS care, survey findsBy Denis Campbell
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@magdelenehall

and social staff have been subject to daylight robbery, having had real terms pay cuts, and are still expected to soldier on.

The ranks of good & experienced staff are thinning, from burn out, from illness, and because even those with a strong passion for care need to feed and house their family, and many of the jobs don't pay well.

The lead to taxpayers money being stolen by their mates, and foreign companies.


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