#NHS cancer patients denied life-saving drugs due to #Brexit costs, report finds
Exclusive: Britons found to have ‘lost out’ while rest of #Europe benefits from golden age of research and treatments
#British #cancer patients are being denied life-saving drugs and trials of revolutionary treatments are being derailed by the red tape and extra costs brought on by Brexit, a leaked report warns.
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.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25029802.completely-unethical-women-excluded-life-saving-vaccine/
@therightarticle
Go on, Jeremy, gerrinto 'im!
Current health secretary/snivelling dweeb Wes Streeting unveiled his 10 year plan for the NHS. And here he is dressed as a nurse with his plans in medication form.
#nhs #WesStreeting #savethenhs #SaveOurNHS #tenyearplan #ukpolitics #labourparty #starmer #cartoon #nurse #politicalcartoon #ozempic #health #healthsecretary #streeting
Streeting's NHS slash-and-burn '10-year plan': close hospitals, privatise, coerce, ration, deny.
#NHS community services privately sold off in Wiltshire for £1.3bn
There’s no other way to dress this up, except for the headline: the Labour Party just oversaw a £1.3 BILLION SELL-OFF of NHS community services to a private equity firm, in Wiltshire.
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2024/10/17/nhs-services-wiltshire/
Winston has always been a bastard....
We already pay for the NHS!!! 
The Blair/Brown model of the #NHS worked pretty well. Can't we just go back to that - with proper funding? We do we need to created a "new model"
Attention #British citizens …
Americans (insured or not) still receive no-cost Covid vaccines.
WTF is wrong with the #UnitedKingdom's government? [Rhetorical question]
"On too many managers in the NHS, analysis exists that shows that as a proportion of the work force the NHS has at least half the percentage that is common in business."
This is where you have to realise that the NHS SHOULDN'T BE RUN AS A BUSINESS!
Labour and Tories would ‘both leave NHS worse off than under austerity’
Labour and the #Conservatives would both leave the #NHS with lower spending increases than during the years of Tory #austerity, according to an independent analysis of their manifestos by a leading health thinktank.
Both Tory & Labour represent lower level of #funding increase than the period of austerity
@ChrisMayLA6
Time to repost this classic!
The NHS ate my wife again.
She started work at 07:30… she got home at 22:00, exhausted, in tears.
And that’s normal.
Because there are not enough staff.
There are not enough staff because the conditions are shit. And the pay is jokes. And the expectations insane.
And the answer from Starmer… “cut waiting times by efficiency savings”. My dude, there is nothing left to squeeze.
Streeting is a prat. Still best he's told what the vast majority wants.
Heard him talk about #OurNHS and wholeheartedly disagree with him. He sounds like a #Tory. He's clueless with regards to #privatisation
Download image to see 2021 health #insurance quote for family of 4. Cheapest quote is $950/month with a $14,000/year excess!
94% of NHS outsourced contracts expire in next parliament
In April Labour pledged to bring our rail services into public ownership as their current private contracts expire
Labour can do the same thing in the #OurNHS
Take 1 minute to send our letter to Labour’s health lead & demand he commit to bring outsourced #NHS services back into NHS when contracts expire
#Healthcare is #devolved matter, what happens in England affects your nation
Rise in hospital ‘corridor care’ is national emergency
Overcrowding forcing hospitals to treat many patients in corridors/storerooms that it's national emergency
The growing & widespread practice is endangering patients’ safety by leaving them without oxygen or ability to attract staff’s attention
Some patients have died while in Corridor Car which #RCN said were inappropriate areas, which can include car parks
STOP spending huge amounts on private agencies - give it to our #NHS instead!
Private agencies charge hospitals nearly £2,000 per SHIFT for nurses
Last year #OurNHS spent over £10 billion on agency staff
Privatisation fails & takes away valuable staff, money & resources from our NHS
NHS England came up with comprehensive plan to give our NHS enough permanent staff to meet needs of patients for years to come
#Petition:
https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/agencies-give-the-nhs-the-money-instead-petition?utm_source=mastodon
I had a nice surprise this morning. 
My friend Elaine sent me this card. It's 50 years on 13th of May since we started our pupil nurse training together to become State Enrolled nurses.
A month after we finished that training, I went on to complete my student nurse training and became an SRN, State Registered Nurse.
We worked for the NHS until we retired. We are both *devastated* at the creeping privatisation of our precious NHS and GP services.
Last year I was diagnosed with stage 4 Lymphoma, a blood cancer. Elaine has been a constant support to me throughout my chemotherapy.
6 months later I am in remission with no sign of active disease. Yay! Thank you NHS!!
I ask myself frequently, would I still be alive without our NHS? Would I have been able to pay for my treatment privately?
Could I afford to pay monthly for private health care insurance?
The answer for me, is No!
I did need to pay for a biopsy last year, as the specialists needed for this biopsy were off sick and a scanner was down. I was lucky, I had saved £750 for dental treatment, which I was able to use for the biopsy instead. I decided that I could live without my teeth if necessary!
Friends here on Masto advised me where I could get the biopsy done. It cost £750!
Not everyone has money saved up. Many folk are living 'from hand to mouth.' They don't have extra money.
There will be times when we need to use the private sector but most people do not have that kind of money. Also, paying monthly for private health insurance might *seem* affordable now, but what if your circumstances change? ( also insurance don't pay up for everything)
What if you or a loved one loses their job, becomes sick or disabled? What if one of your loved ones gets sick and needs 24 hour care?
Could you give up your job to care for them? Could you still pay your rent, mortgage, utilities, food, petrol? Please *think* about it. Work out what you would be able to do.
Note: In an emergency there are *no* private A&E departments in the UK.
We all need our NHS, "free at the point of need, from the cradle to the grave," however fit and well we may feel now.
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Birth-of-the-NHS/
*Please fight for our NHS.*
Once it's gone. It's gone.
https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/projects/nhs-in-nutshell
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/gps-arent-private-companies-but-private-takeover-is-nearing/
@ChrisMayLA6
And where medical debt is ...medical bankruptcy will follow.
It's no joke, ask Americans.
#SaveOurNHS
#ItsTheToriesOrTheNHS
