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Bursary Or Bust: Thousands of Student Nurses and Midwives Take To U.K. Streets Over Cuts
Starting in August of next year, the Tories plan to scrap vital funds for student nurses in training, who instead will be forced to take out loans that leave them saddled with debt.
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Junior Doctors In Britain Launch Nationwide Strike Opposing Changes To Pay and Conditions
Unionized doctors across the U.K. have committed to strike today, providing emergency care only as they challenge government healthcare in a way unseen since the 1948 introduction of Britain's National Health Service.
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Britain Has Marginalized A Mental Health Care Crisis That Threatens To Explode
Between 2011 and 2014, more than 4,000 people deemed "fit to work" died within six weeks following their Work Capacity Assessment by the U.K. government, shocking the nation and revealing a looming crisis in mental health care.
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Leak Over Privatized Cancer Care Exposes Latest For-Profit Blunder By U.K.'s Health Service
Last week saw the biggest leak in the history of the U.K. National Health Service, with the publication of a document that revealed clinical commissioning groups were looking for a private company to accept a £1.2 billion contract for cancer care.
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Privatized Britain's National Health Service Produces More Questions Than Answers
"The outsourcing that goes on to these types of organizations is there to provide them with profit – that's all they're interested in.”
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Exposed: Leaks of Patient Data Reveal U.K.'s “Stealth” Privatization of National Health System
Patient details were shared with organizations including private health insurance companies, many based in the United States.
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Outrageous Decline in British Healthcare A Result of Cuts and Privatization
How fiscally responsible is it for the government to subsidize big banks with taxpayer money while insisting it has to make billions in cuts to the National Health Service?
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Britains Remember Their Victims of Austerity
10,000 white flowers were placed on the green before the U.K. Parliament, each flower representing a person with disability who died within three months of assessment by Atos, a private British healthcare assessor.
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Occupy Action in London Targets U.K.’s Military Industrial Complex
Occupy vs. the Arms Fair brought together supporters of Occupy and anti-arms trade activists in London to organize against what is described as the "world’s leading defense and security event."
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The Tide Is Turning Against Privatization in Britain
Despite governments’ slavish devotion to privatization, the British public aren’t at all convinced. A recent poll shows four in five people think there should be an in-house bid when a public service is put out to tender.
