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Ealing: Save our NHS from the Sustainable Transformation Plan

February 17, 2017 by Rob Davidson Leave a Comment

Captions are provided in the video above. The full transcript is below Rob Davidson: The NHS is in crisis. After 6 years of Austerity, services have been cut across the country, frontline staff have been lost, hospitals have been shut down, and now one of the new ways for government cuts to be brought through … [Read more…]

Posted in: Health Care Tagged: Austerity, Ealing, STP

Top health experts defend EU membership in open letter

June 16, 2016 by Rob Davidson Leave a Comment

Over 70 top public health experts recently published an open letter in The Times (subscription), defending the benefits of EU membership for the UK’s health care. They talked of the NHS’s staffing requirements, the need of international cooperation to tackle cross-border health issues, access to health research and new medicines and how reliant our public … [Read more…]

Posted in: Health Care, Public Health Tagged: open letter

Why Brexit would be detrimental for mental health care

June 8, 2016 by Hannah Lewis 1 Comment

With the likes of Farage, Gove and Johnson using scaremongering tactics to instil fear into British citizens, coupled with cries for us to make our “own laws” in a bid to preserve British sovereignty, it is easy for us to forget the many areas where shared decision-making at the EU level has a very positive … [Read more…]

Posted in: Health Care, Patients, Public Health Tagged: mental health, patients, regulation

Vote Leave deliberately misleading public over NHS

May 13, 2016 by Rob Davidson 29 Comments

Despite the Department of Health telling them off a couple of months ago the Leave campaign is again using the NHS logo illegally in order to make it seem like they are strongly ‘in’ with our public health service. In recent photos of their ‘battle buses’ you can clearly see them using the NHS logo … [Read more…]

Posted in: Health Care, Patients, Public Health, Referendum Tagged: 350 million, 600 million, Bendy bananas, Boris Johnson, misleading, NHS, Vote Leave

Health pros publish pro-EU letter in The Times

April 4, 2016 by Rob Davidson 14 Comments

Today, 4th April 2016, Healthier IN had a letter published in The Times, defending the EU as an overall benefit to UK public health, the NHS and health research.  Through its collection of co-signatories, it brought together health professionals of every sort, from medical students to medical peers, doctors, nurses, other health professionals, supporters of all … [Read more…]

Posted in: Health Care, Public Health Tagged: letter, The Times

Countering Brexit myths: TTIP and privatisation of the NHS

March 19, 2016 by Martin McKee 13 Comments

Many of us have expressed grave concerns about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, better known as the TTIP. In 2013, European governments instructed the European Commission to negotiate a free-trade deal with the United States. Like all free-trade deals, TTIP brings potential benefits, but also considerable risks. However, in this case, the stakes are … [Read more…]

Posted in: Health Care Tagged: NHS, TTIP

The EU and our Health Care

March 3, 2016 by Martin McKee 2 Comments

Our health care abroad UK citizens obtain health care in other member states all the time. We’ve researched this in detail over many years. They include the estimated 2.2 UK citizens living in other member states, people who fall ill on holiday and use their European Health Insurance Card to get treatment on the same basis … [Read more…]

Posted in: Health Care Tagged: brits abroad, freedom of movement, health workers, immigration, TTIP

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