Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Join @socialisthealth.bsky.social at our fringe next Sunday at Labour Conference! 010
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Over 300 deaths per week are associated with prolonged A&E waits - that is the real danger to life and security in this country and restoring our NHS should be the government’s priority. 000
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Over 300 deaths per week are associated with prolonged A&E waits - that is the real danger to life and security in this country and restoring our NHS should be the government’s priority. @socialisthealth.bsky.social 000
Reposted by Rathi GuhadasanAction for Global Health @afghnetwork.bsky.social · 03/09/2026📢 ICYMI: The latest immunisation data shows progress — but just how secure is it? 💉📈 Our members @savechildrenuk.bsky.social and @resultsuk.bsky.social examine what the data reveals about health systems — and what aid cuts could put at risk 👇 actionforglobalhealth.org.uk/immunisation...actionforglobalhealth.org.ukImmunisation data shows the fragility of global health systems before aid cuts | Action for Global HealthNew immunisation data shows hard-won progress at risk as aid cuts threaten health systems and efforts to reach zero-dose children. 123
Reposted by Rathi GuhadasanAction for Global Health @afghnetwork.bsky.social · 25/08/2026With #GlobalHealth at a crossroads, what does the latest immunisation data tell us? 💉📈 Our members @savechildrenuk.bsky.social + @resultsuk.bsky.social examine the health systems behind the numbers — and the picture before the full force of aid cuts 👇 actionforglobalhealth.org.uk/immunisation...actionforglobalhealth.org.ukImmunisation data shows the fragility of global health systems before aid cuts | Action for Global HealthNew immunisation data shows hard-won progress at risk as aid cuts threaten health systems and efforts to reach zero-dose children. 011
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Does Labour’s healthy policy pass the Makerfield Test? No - but it could … Read more in my article on behalf of @socialisthealth.bsky.social labouroutlook.org/2026/08/05/d...labouroutlook.orgDoes Labour’s health policy pass the Makerfield test? – Rathi Guhadasan"Andy Burnham gave us the test. On health, his government is not yet passing it. The good news is that the answer sheet has been in Labour's possession for seventy-eight years." 031
Reposted by Rathi GuhadasanKeep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Our Co-Chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social spoke to BBC 3 Counties Radio yesterday about NHS cuts, and private sector waste: "Last year £560 million went into private cataract companies, and £165 million of that was profit - so that's 32% profit." Listen here 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOrj...youtube.comWhy is this NHS trust cutting £24.9m? | Interview with Three Counties RadioYouTube video by Keep Our NHS Public 22624
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Do you want to join the fight to restore our NHS to full health? @socialisthealth.bsky.social is hiring! Find out more and apply sochealth.co.uk/admin-organi...sochealth.co.ukAdmin/Organiser Role at Socialist Health Association - Socialist Health AssociationAdmin Organiser Job AdvertDownload 000
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 19/06/2026300 emergency care deaths / week, waiting lists still > 7 million & an NHS funding private profits before staff & patient care. @drstevetaylor.bsky.social @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social & I discuss Labour’s record on the NHS and how this needs to change urgently: watch👇🏾 youtu.be/-9GVg165b0E?...youtu.beLabour’s 2nd year report - Could do a lot better! YouTube video by Not the NHS Again 053
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 16/05/2026The question for us in @socialisthealth.bsky.social is not whether Starmer goes, but who comes next. Wes Streeting’s resignation letter made some bold claims about his tenure as SoS Health. We looked at the impacts of his policies, actions and inactions here: sochealth.co.uk/2026/05/15/s...sochealth.co.ukSHA response to Wes Streeting’s resignation letter - Socialist Health AssociationDr Rathi Guhadasan The unfolding events in Westminster come as no surprise. As an organisation campaigning for health and wellbeing through socialist principles and a Labour affiliate since 1931, the ... 001
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Happy New Year to all my old friends and colleagues in Cambodia and Laos and everyone celebrating across the region. 000
Reposted by Rathi GuhadasanLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 11/04/2026‘My friends and relatives were safe where they were – my parents in the apartment where they have lived in central Beirut for almost fifty years. Yesterday, I was not so sure anymore. And they were not either.’ @loubnaelamine.bsky.social on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...lrb.co.ukLoubna El Amine | A Hundred Airstrikes in Ten MinutesYesterday morning, after the ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, many displaced people in Lebanon... 03212
Reposted by Rathi GuhadasanLabour Hub @labour-hub.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Stand With Science — Invest in Health, Not War By Rathi Guhadasan, Socialist Health Association Today is World Health Day. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched its 2026 theme: “Together for Health. Stand with Science” — a call to choose evidence over disinformation and back the science…labourhub.org.ukStand With Science — Invest in Health, Not WarBy Rathi Guhadasan, Socialist Health Association Today is World Health Day. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched its 2026 theme: “Together for Health. Stand with Science” — a call to choose evidence over disinformation and back the science that keeps us alive. It’s a message we support. Which is why we need to be honest about the ways our leaders in the UK are letting it down. Politics is driving childhood illness Vaccines are one of humanity’s greatest achievements. They are why most of us have never seen a child paralysed by polio or lost a friend to measles. 032
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Solidarity to all the striking BMA members today ✊🏾🧡. Read why @socialisthealth.bsky.social supports this strike here: labourhub.org.uk/2026/04/03/w...labourhub.org.ukWhy We Stand With Resident DoctorsThis dispute is about patient safety, not just pay, argues Dr Rathi Guhadasan, writing on behalf of the Socialist Health Association. The headlines tell one version of this story: disruption, cance… 000
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Cutting training posts for resident drs hurts patient care and costs us in the long term - it is just not in the public interest by any metric. Read my report on the BMA resident drs dispute and why we at @socialisthealth.bsky.social support them. 032
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 03/04/2026More deaths have happened while the government does nothing. Protect yourself - download this postcard and let your GP and clinic know you do not wish to be seen by a PA. sochealth.co.uk/2025/03/13/p... We need an immediate recruitment freeze and phase out of existing PA roles.sochealth.co.ukPhysician Associates - campaign material - Socialist Health AssociationPhysician Associate Postcard We are delighted to make available this downloadable pdf of a postcard for use by NHS GP and hospital patients, which we are sponsoring together with other health campaign... 002
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 29/03/2026actionnetwork.org/petitions/ex... I’ve signed this petition- will you?actionnetwork.orgExpel Israel's AmbassadorIsrael’s genocidal onslaught on Gaza has killed over 64,000 Palestinians, including 18,000 children. Their Ambassador should be expelled. 000
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 27/03/2026On the eve of @togetheralliance.bsky.social march, a reminder that healthcare is a human right and shouldn't depend on your passport. @socialisthealth.bsky.social shalondon.co.ukshalondon.co.ukshalondon.co.ukSocialist Health London 000
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 27/03/2026@socialisthealth.bsky.social will join the NHS bloc at @togetheralliance.bsky.social tomorrow. Look for our banner. Nearest assembly point: London Hilton Hotel Park Lane, Bus Stop A, London W1J 7FW - 11:45am What3words: ///soaks.match.grass 010
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 23/03/2026More evidence from @socialisthealth.bsky.social president, Professor Allyson Pollock, of the harms of outsourcing NHS treatment, leading to widening inequality and a two tier system where the poorest wait longest. 010
Reposted by Rathi GuhadasanAndrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Canada needs to step up and help our Cuban friends 47120
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Shutting the door to Sudanese students benefits no-one. Doing so during the world’s largest displacement crisis is immoral. This is petty pandering, not leadership. labourhub.org.uk/2026/03/21/b...labourhub.org.ukBanning 280 Sudanese students will not ‘Save Britain’280 Sudanese Students – and Britain shuts the door. Alhadi Osman probes the real reasons for the Home Secretary’s latest clampdown. On March 3rd, 2026, UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood … 1143
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 19/03/2026@yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social cutting foreign aid while ramping up war spending - which disproportionately impacts children - is in no-one’s interests. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...independent.co.ukStarmer facing fresh Labour backlash over international aid cutsAid allocations set to be announced more than a year after the prime minister said the budget would be reduced from 0.5% of GDP to 0.3% by 2027 000
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 18/03/2026www.facebook.com/share/v/1CGm... @socialisthealth.bsky.social is proud to support the campaign to restore Labour Party democracy. I spoke at this meeting - amongst many experts - to outline the issues we face in trying to challenge current Labour NHS policy on behalf of staff and patients.facebook.comFacebook 000
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Please take a minute to view @socialisthealth.bsky.social ‘s International Women’s Day special edition newsletter celebrating women’s achievements in healthcare and highlighting the issues we still face. sochealth.co.uk/2026/03/08/i... #InternationalWomensDay2026sochealth.co.ukIWD - Special Edition - Socialist Health AssociationInternational Women's Day 2026 Read in full or download: IWD SHA SpecialDownload 023
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 02/03/2026From preventable deaths in people living with mental illness to the failure of NHS talking therapies, refugee mental health and much, much more - read about our mental health policy and campaigns group and get involved 🙏🏾 @socialisthealth.bsky.social sochealth.co.uk/2026/03/02/m...sochealth.co.ukMental Health Action: campaigning to transform NHS mental health care - Socialist Health AssociationPaul AtkinsonMental Health Action formed in 2021 in a merger of London-based mental health activists in Keep Our NHS Public and the Socialist Health Association. Many members of the group are in both ... 010
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 02/03/2026“Every life lost to war matters. But especially the 148 children of Minab … whose deaths will be processed by the Western news cycle as an unfortunate but perhaps unavoidable consequence of a complex operation, before the cycle moves on.” africasacountry.com/list/campaig...africasacountry.comAfrica Is a Country Weekend Special, Mar 2: What is there left to say? 000
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 12/02/2026New SHA article on the weaponisation of food access - the first in our “In Place of Hunger” series. Contact us and get involved in our work! @socialisthealth.bsky.social sochealth.co.uk/2026/02/10/i...sochealth.co.ukIn Place of Hunger part one - The Weaponization of Food Access - Socialist Health AssociationDr Rathi Guhadasan When we hear talk of food used as a weapon, we might think of distant wars. But the weaponization of food operates at multiple scales: from the blockade of Gaza to the quiet violenc... 000
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 03/02/2026“ICBs … are expected to reduce operational costs by up to 50% and this risks undermining efforts to strengthen vaccine coverage.” No response from Wes Streeting - we need a grown-up approach to public health and health service planning. www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...lshtm.ac.ukRapid Reaction: UK loses measles elimination status | LSHTMThe World Health Organization (WHO) announced today (26 January 2026) that the UK has lost its measles elimination status.The decision is based on data showing 2,911 laboratory confirmed measles cases 000
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 17/12/2025My solidarity is with striking @bma.org.uk resident doctors today. Not with a Health Secretary who attacks a union in the media rather than negotiating and working with them to address drs’ serious concerns. We all need a solution to stop dr attrition and burnout and make patient care safe. 14214
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Congratulations @townsendprod.bsky.social for their production of “We Are The Lions Mr Manager” last night, near to the original Grunswick factory site, and attended by some of those who supported the strikes. Still on tour - highly recommend for anyone who can catch it. @brenttuc.bsky.social 133
Reposted by Rathi GuhadasanAlex Scott-Samuel @dralexss.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Five years have passed & the situation is so much worse. Labour has accelerated privatisation, reintroduced PFI & allowed downskilled "physician associates" to do the work of doctors youtu.be/FfNNnPlFavM?...youtu.beSave our NHSYouTube video by Felicity Dowling 043
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 25/11/2025“The government’s proposal today is more than a mistake, it flies in the face of overwhelming evidence that PFI has already financially crippled trusts, diverted funds away from patient care and is against the public interest.” sochealth.co.uk/2025/11/25/s...sochealth.co.ukStatement on the use of PFI to fund Neighbourhood Health Centres - Socialist Health AssociationThe Socialist Health Association strongly opposes the government's plans to reintroduce Private Finance Initiative (PFI) -style schemes to fund NHS Neighbourhood Health Centres, which were announced t... 021
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 25/11/2025A government health minister just announced plans to use the private sector to build and maintain neighbourhood health centres. This is PFI 2.0. PFI is an unforgivable waste of public money - straight into private profit and at the expense of patient care. @socialisthealth.bsky.social 121
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Labour’s asylum proposals are a denial of fundamental health and human rights to the most vulnerable and a betrayal of health equity principles. Read why in my article here: sochealth.co.uk/2025/11/19/r... @socialisthealth.bsky.socialsochealth.co.ukRethink Approach To Asylum - Socialist Health AssociationThe Wrong Prescription – Why Labour Must Rethink Its Approach To Asylum Rathi Guhadasan, 18 November 2025The Socialist Health Association condemns the asylum reforms announced this week by Home Secret... 022
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 07/09/2025TUC 2025 delegates, we’re here! Stand 15, lots of seating by us 😊. Looking forward to chatting with you about how we can work together to restore our NHS to the fully publicly provided service we all deserve. @socialisthealth.bsky.social #PatientsNotProfits 021
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Join us at @tuc.org.uk 2025, stand 15 from Sunday and at our fringe meeting in the Restaurant at the Brighton Centre on Monday 12:45-2pm. Lunch available! All welcome! @socialisthealth.bsky.social 011
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Tonight! - Join @socialisthealth.bsky.social in discussion with Dr David Walsh, on his latest book, “Social Murder” - describing how austerity lowered life expectancy, widened inequalities and drove people to suicide. 110
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Happy birthday NHS - but in the face of a 10 year plan to replace drs and hospitals with AI and “community hubs”, likely funded by PFI, we must fight for a fully publicly funded, fully publicly provided NHS. @socialisthealth.bsky.social #NHS77 labourhub.org.uk/2025/07/05/a...labourhub.org.ukA check-up for the NHSBy Dr Rathi Guhadasan On the NHS’s 77th birthday, with Labour marking one year in government yesterday and Thursday’s publication of the “10-year plan”, what better time to give the NHS its own hea… 011
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 31/05/2025 @socialisthealth.bsky.social newsletter - find out about upcoming event in Manchester with @andyburnham.bsky.social , read about the public harms from outsourcing NHS services and more… sochealth.co.uk/wp-content/u...sochealth.co.uk 001
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 27/05/2025TODAY - open to all - please tune in for our @SocHealthLondon meeting with Professor Allyson Pollock on the harms of outsourcing NHS services and how to fight for OUR NHS. @socialisthealth.bsky.social Online on 27th May at 7:30pm. Link below. #SaveOurNHS 011
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Great work from @newstatesman.com to highlight some costly and harmful practices behind the “fall in waiting lists” that we constantly hear about. Having tests ordered by a GP is NOT the same as seeing a specialist btw. @socialisthealth.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...newstatesman.comThe NHS will be paid to cut waiting lists – at great cost to patient safetyAre some people destined to become collateral damage so that lists “fall” faster? 001
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 17/05/2025I can’t believe the world watched a genocide for 20 months and couldn’t stop it. Good luck for the #Nakba77 events around the country today. If you are in London, look out for the @socialisthealth.bsky.social banner - say hello if you see us ✊🏾🍉 #StopArmingIsrael #CeasefireNow #FreePalestine 041
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 30/04/2025“Outsourcing is worsening outcomes, fuelling inequality and hollowing out the NHS from within.” - Prof Allyson Pollock’s new study shows the devastating impact of outsourcing NHS surgery to private providers. @socialisthealth.bsky.social sochealth.co.uk/2025/04/30/p...sochealth.co.uk 101
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 26/04/2025The wasteful internal market of the NHS must be dismantled. Read @socialisthealth.bsky.social ‘s article on the extent of NHS privatisation in @mstaronline.bsky.social today. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dont...morningstaronline.co.ukDon't feed the fatcats: how the NHS became corporate health | Morning Star 033
Rathi Guhadasan @rathi-sha.bsky.social · 11/04/2025The 2 child benefit cap must be scrapped. Disgraceful to see this level of child poverty in the 6th richest country in the world. 110
Reposted by Rathi GuhadasanAndrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is facing mounting criticism from health care professionals and the opposition after suggesting hospitals are misusing surgical funding — a claim her own health minister later contradicted www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...ctvnews.caAlberta premier’s comments on surgical funding spark backlashAlberta Premier Danielle Smith is facing mounting criticism from health-care professionals and the opposition after suggesting hospitals are misusing surgical funding — a claim her own health minister... 42916
