Category: General
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US firm Palantir already has a £300 million contract to connect NHS data. They have said themselves that they are “buying our way in” to the NHS, and recent revelations in the BMJ shed a little bit more light on what exactly that involves. Much weight has been placed by Starmer’s ministers on a pilot…
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The NHS signed on with US firm Palantir to provide its ‘Federated Data Platform’ in November 2023 at a cost of £330 million. Although until recently Palantir operated at a loss, it is rapidly becoming profitable thanks to contracts from the US government, including ICE, and the US military. Its software was been a key…
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This is the much-vaunted Fair Work Agency, or what survives of it after Starmer’s repated wattering down of what was promised to the unions. Well done Sharon for laying it on the line. The Fair work Agency was supposed to enforce worker’s rights and give a meaningful inspection regime for low pay, bogus self employment,…
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Thanks to Ray Goodspeed of Left Horizons for doing this interview. On NHS issues – what I was trying to sday is that we have many, many issues in the NHS, but the model bequeathed to us from the previous regime simly does not work, The idea was that if a member has a problem…
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If you have a house infested with rats you don’t move out and leave the rats running the house. You get rid of the rats. The unions fund the Labour Party – that is the actual party, the offices, the staff, the leaflets and even the postage, The rich donors do none of that. They…
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Nothing better shows the stupidity and emptiness of Starmer, Streeting and Reeves’ commitment to the NHS than the bombshell announcement of the abolition of NHS England in March 2025. Starmer was all dressed up, as he often is, in Hi-Vis as he made a speech at the Dettol research centre in Hull. The centre piece…
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An analysis in 2022 in the Health Service Journal (HSJ) gave an insight into the crisis then gripping the ambulance services across the country. All the same factors apply today, nearly two years in to a Labour government. NHS data shows massive variation between hospitals in the time it takes to discharge patients from ambulances…
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NHS scientists are crucial to healthcare in the UK. Although they make up just 5% of the workforce, they are integral to 80% of diagnoses, conducting 1.5 billion tests each year. Their work of analysing blood and tissue samples allows medical staff to identify diseases and monitor conditions. Without the NHS scientific workforce (biomedical scientists,…
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Members of the union Unite were rocked by the revelations that came out of an Employment Tribunal for former senior official, Howard Beckett. The revelations concern the hotel and conference centre that the union had commissioned to be built in Birmingham. Among the many startling revelations from the Employment Tribunal (ET), one stood out a…
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We had a Conservative government. They appointed Conservatives to the Board of the National Blood Service (as it was at that time). I was the union rep at the Blood Centre and one day in August I saw on teletext (!) that our Centre and 4 others were to close. Did we accept it? NO.…
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