‘Community hospitals are a lifeline for coastal areas. Labour must protect them’
This summer, campaigners in the Cornish seaside town of St Ives saved their community hospital. Three years after…
health policy
‘The five missions are a transformational project Labour must unite around’
As I sat behind Keir Starmer when he announced his five missions for Britain, I felt a real…
‘To secure the NHS for the next 75 years, Labour must start listening to staff’
As we approach the next general election, many people are wondering how Keir Starmer would approach the problems…
Labour should trust GPs to do their job, not make us all salaried
Labour’s plan for progress in the NHS includes many laudable aims that the Royal College of GPs can…
Labour’s health mission: toward the right diagnosis but what about the treatment?
As a nation, we’re getting sick in all kinds of ways. Life expectancy gains have stalled, people are…
Labour’s health mission must be radical – and much wider than the NHS
Wes Streeting’s speech to the King’s Fund represented a thoughtful intervention on primary care. The makings of an…
Only the Labour Party can be trusted to ensure the NHS is fit for the future
13 years of Conservative mismanagement have left the NHS without the doctors and nurses it needs, and patients…
Labour will maintain “vital” NHS targets for patient care, Streeting pledges
Wes Streeting has pledged to maintain key standards for patients and argued that targets are “vital” to ensure…
Johnson’s obesity strategy does nothing to address the causes of poor health and diet
For a moment in time back in April, it seemed as if the Covid-19 pandemic were about to…
Health inequalities are widening due to austerity. It is a disgrace
Inequality in health is the worst inequality of all. Surely there can be no greater social injustice than…
