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Defend London’s NHS: MPs, Doctors and Activists Describe An Unprecedented...
Defend London’s NHS: A Week of Action, a set on Flickr. Last week, from February 9 to 16, campaigners across London — in Lewisham, in Hammersmith, in Ealing, in Archway and in Kingston — who are...
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The Destruction of the NHS in North West London
Yesterday’s news was expected, but it still hit hard. Last June, the Joint Committee of North West London Primary Care Trusts proposed the closure of four of the nine A&E Departments at hospitals...
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URGENT: Save the NHS Now! Legislation Enforcing Privatisation Will Be Passed...
UPDATE 7.30pm, Feb. 25: The campaigning group 38 Degrees has now launched its own official petition calling for a debate on the provisions for implementing enforced competition in almost all NHS...
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Save Lewisham Hospital: Legal Challenge Goes Ahead, Plus New Actions Confirmed
Please support the “Born in Lewisham Hospital” event on Saturday March 16, and, if you can, contribute to Lewisham Council’s Legal Challenge Fund to pay for the Judicial Review that has just been...
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Government Climbdown Over Plans for Enforced NHS Privatisation
Please note: Although I took an optimistic tone in this article, the truth is that the revised regulations are still toxic for the NHS, and intended to usher in the wholesale privatisation of NHS...
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Born in Lewisham: Photos of the Protest to Save Lewisham Hospital, March 16,...
Born in Lewisham: The Protest to Save Lewisham Hospital, March 16, 2013, a set on Flickr. On March 16, 2013, the Save Lewisham Hospital campaign organised a protest and publicity event, entitled,...
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More Photos from “Born in Lewisham,” the Protest to Save Lewisham Hospital,...
More Photos from “Born in Lewisham,” the Protest to Save Lewisham Hospital, March 16, 2013, a set on Flickr. On Saturday, another high-profile event took place in the campaign to “Save Lewisham...
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Intimations of Mortality Revisited; or Why I Will Always Fight to Save the NHS
Two years ago — at noon on March 18, 2011 — I gave up smoking after chain-smoking for 29 years. It was one of the best things I ever did in my life, along with giving up drinking (nearly five years...
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Save the NHS: Photos and Report from the Lobby of Parliament on March 26 to...
Save the NHS: The Lobby of Parliament on March 26 to Scrap the New Regulations Enforcing NHS Privatisation, a set on Flickr. Yesterday, in the Houses of Parliament, a passionate and packed-out meeting...
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Protest Photos: Shaker Aamer and Guantánamo, and an NHS Roadblock Outside...
Protest Photos: Shaker Aamer and Guantanamo, and an NHS Roadblock Outside Parliament, a set on Flickr. This photo set collects a few photos from events over the last week and a half that I haven’t...
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The Tories’ Cruelty Is Laid Bare as Multiple Welfare Cuts Bite
Ever since the Tories came to power in May 2010, aided by the Liberal Democrats, who, sadly, demonstrated that everything they professed to believe in could be discarded if it meant being in...
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Save the NHS: Urge the Lords to Fight Privatisation, Plus Updates from Lewisham
Wednesday April 24 may be the day that the NHS dies — or that it lives on. On April 1, largely unnoticed by the people of England, the most popular institution in the land, the NHS (the National Health...
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This was the Week the NHS Died, and No One Cares
Save the NHS: A Protest Outside Parliament, and a Public Meeting in Lewisham, a set on Flickr. On Wednesday April 24, the House of Lords voted by 254 votes to 146 to dismiss a motion, proposed by the...
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Save the NHS: The Next Moves for Campaigners, and a Transcript of the Lords’...
It’s now eleven days since the House of Lords voted against a motion proposed by the Labour peer, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, which was intended to strike down regulations relating to Section 75 of the...
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Photos: A Year of Protest – The NHS, Disabled Rights, Guantánamo, Bradley...
A Year of Protest – The NHS, Disabled Rights, Guantánamo, Bradley Manning and the Occupy Movement, a set on Flickr. A year ago yesterday, I embarked on a huge and ongoing project — to photograph the...
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Defend London’s NHS Protest on May 18 Coincides with Savage Cuts and Possible...
Please attend the march at 12 noon on Saturday May 18, 2013, from Jubilee Gardens (on Concert Hall Approach near the South Bank Centre) to Whitehall, where there will be a rally outside Downing Street...
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Save Lewisham Hospital: Please Get Involved in “Justice for Lewisham Week,”...
Next week (from June 29 to July 5) is “Justice for Lewisham Week” in the London Borough of Lewisham, where the hospital that serves the 270,000 inhabitants has been under threat since last October,...
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Save Lewisham Hospital: Hopes that the Judicial Reviews Will Find Downgrade...
On Tuesday, a High Court judge, Sir Stephen Silber, began hearing two judicial reviews intended to prove that plans to severely downgrade services at Lewisham Hospital in south east London — conceived...
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Save Lewisham Hospital: The Submission to the Judicial Review by Dr. Helen...
Today is the 65th anniversary of the NHS, and I’d like to raise a toast to the visionary founders of the health service, who established a system of medical care for all of us, free at the point of...
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Lewisham Hospital Saved! Judge Rules Jeremy Hunt’s Downgrade Plans Unlawful
We won! Congratulations to the tens of thousands of campaigners who have been fighting to save Lewisham Hospital for the last eight months, since plans to severely downgrade services at the hospital...
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