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The National Health Service was founded on a simple principle: healthcare should be available to everyone, regardless of wealth or background. Yet increasing amounts of NHS funding are being diverted into the hands of private healthcare companies, raising serious questions about whether public money is being used in the best interests of patients and taxpayers. A recent study by the Centre for Health and Public Interest examined NHS spending on private healthcare providers in England over a two-year period.

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BMA ‘Plan B’ Ballot Highlights Growing Concerns Over the Future of NHS General Practice The British Medical Association (BMA) has confirmed plans to ballot GPs in England on a potential “Plan B” for general practice, reflecting growing concern within the profession about the long-term sustainability of NHS primary care. The proposal follows a vote at the UK Local Medical Committees (LMC) Conference, where GP representatives supported exploring alternative models of service provision, including greater freedom for practices to offer private services alongside NHS care.

Following the resignation of Wes Streeting, James Murray has been appointed as the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. As campaigners for a properly funded, publicly provided NHS, it is important that we understand the background, politics and priorities of the person now responsible for our health service. In a recent article, Keep Our NHS Public (KONP) examines Murray's political record and the challenges he faces as he takes on one of the most demanding roles in government.

Recent reporting has intensified concerns around Palantir’s controversial role in the NHS’s Federated Data Platform (FDP), a £330 million system intended to improve how health data is shared and analysed across England. An investigation by Democracy for Sale revealed leaked internal NHS documents describing Palantir’s software as “slow and clunky”, with some tasks reportedly taking up to ten times longer than existing NHS tools.

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A new GP contract has recently been announced which will affect how referrals from your GP work in the UK from the 1st April… There will be a significantly heavier reliance on GPs using “advice and guidance” - reaching out to specialists for their input rather than making a referral in the traditional sense. The motivating factor here is very clearly to reduce outpatient waiting lists, which of course it will do - but as this change only increases the burden on GP surgeries, taking up more GP appointments to action that advice, you can expect to find it even harder to see your GP moving forward.Lots of smoke and mirrors here, I suspect, to make the numbers “look better” but without actually improving patient care - or, likely, patient outcomes.How do you feel about this change?Personally I suspect that using “advice and guidance” will also create issues for patients with chronic, rare or complex conditions - and most likely for female patients - as the change means that any implicit assumptions or bias that may have crept into the GP’s original request for advice and guidance will be passed along to the consultant as “the full story”. You will no longer have the opportunity to state your own case… NHS England have apparently assured doctors that referral pathways following Jess’s rule will continue as normal - so if you have seen your GP three times or more for the same (undifferentiated) condition, you can ask your doctor to Reflect, Review and RETHINK - so this may become the best pathway to follow until the situation settles.If you are a GP - please weigh in on whether this change will be of benefit to your patients? Or do you feel this is just another step away from patient-centred care?#medicalgaslighting #womenshealthmatters #doctorsappointment #chronicillnesswarriors #autoimmunediseases Keywords:NHS ReferralsJess’s Rulemedical misogynyPOTS / MCAS / EDSLong CovidChronic FatigueWaiting Lists Rare diseaseView all 4,252 comments

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North West London recorded 80.1% of patients being seen within four hours across all A&E types, against the 95% target. This is 6.0 percentage points above the national average of 74.1%. For Type 1 major A&E departments only, performance was 62.0%, compared with the national Type 1 average of 59.4%. This places North West London…

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