Health
Mike Marqusee says the problems at Barts health trust are caused by attempts to make impossible levels of cuts – while handing billions to private firms
Alex Nunns interviews Clive Peedell, co-leader of the new National Health Action Party, which will fight the next election on the issue of the government’s destruction of the NHS
Alex Nunns looks at the gale of privatisation, sell-offs and cuts in services blowing through the health service
It is not inevitable that the feeding frenzy of privateers will succeed as people organise to resist them, writes Caroline Molloy
Stewart Player and Colin Leys on the consultancy firm making a fortune from the privatisation of the NHS
With the health bill passed, the government is now setting about forcing the market into the NHS. Colin Leys looks at what is likely to happen next
As the health bill becomes law, Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, and doctors Jacky Davis and Jonathon Tomlinson issue a call to action
Colin Leys looks at how Scotland and Wales have rejected marketising the NHS
Colin Leys on the proposed changes to the health bill, and how we can use the pause to defend the NHS
Elizabeth McGuirk explains the key proposals of the Health and Social Care Bill
Patients need health workers to take action on their behalf, says Mike Marqusee
GP Jonathon Tomlinson tells how creeping privatisation has affected one of his patients
Stewart Player and Colin Leys expose the reality of the government's plans for the health service
Donald Morrison looks at the resistance needed to beat the health white paper
Colin Leys examines how and why Labour is destroying the NHS
GP services are being undermined by a blind faith in 'market solutions', writes Dr Louise Irvine
Susan Secher describes her experiences of local health care 'consultation'
Health secretary Alan Johnson maintains that in backing centralised GP 'super-surgeries' he is staying true to the dream of the founder of the NHS. Tom Foot says the reality is more like Nye's nightmare
Anita Roddick, who helped fund the redesigned Red Pepper magazine and website, died from a hepatitis C-related brain haemorrhage in September 2007. Earlier that year she wrote about discovering she had the illness that is known as the 'silent killer' because so few people know they have it
Labour's deputy leadership contest has at least revealed one thing - the extent of unease over Tony Blair's market reforms of the NHS. Ministers have made statements that would once have got them sacked but now get them votes. Red Pepper and Keep Our NHS Public teamed up to survey the six candidates' views and see who's best for the NHS. By Alex Nunns
Red Pepper / Keep Our NHS Public survey of Labour deputy leadership candidates views on the NHS
Red Pepper / Keep Our NHS Public survey of Labour deputy leadership candidates views on the NHS
Red Pepper / Keep Our NHS Public survey of Labour deputy leadership candidates views on the NHS
Red Pepper / Keep Our NHS Public survey of Labour deputy leadership candidates views on the NHS
Red Pepper / Keep Our NHS Public survey of Labour deputy leadership candidates views on the NHS
Red Pepper / Keep Our NHS Public survey of Labour deputy leadership candidates views on the NHS
It's like putting Enron in charge of the power grid. That's how US businessman Phil Zweig describes the privatisation of NHS procurement.
With the hospital ‘deficits crisis’ dominating the headlines, amidst claims that increases in NHS funding have been eaten up by pay and other cost increases, Colin Leys continues Red Pepper’s exposure of what is really happening in the health service.
New Labour is in the process of achieving what Thatcher didn’t dare – the demolition of the National Health Service
As avian flu continues its seemingly unstoppable advance through the world’s bird population, fears of a human pandemic are growing. Be afraid, says Mike Davis, be very afraid – not least because we are so unprepared
Choice, if Labour and the Tories are to be believed, is in danger of becoming like motherhood and apple pie: no right-thinking person could possibly be against it. If you raise questions about choice you are quickly condemned as a supporter of the old Stalinist-type "command and control" economy. Choice in public services is, however, a problematic concept.
The Labour-Tory market model for extending choice in the NHS will inevitably result in a dramatic decline in service-user equity. Here Marian Barnes outlines reforms that would benefit everybody.
Doctors and nurses from the Philippines pay thousands of pounds so they can travel to the UK and work for as little as £8 a day in British hospitals and nursing homes.
A new alliance of groups against the introduction of foundation trusts in the NHS has called on the government to withdraw proposals until more consultation has taken place.
Just when you thought it was safe to travel to Toronto, Sars once again reared its ugly head. Why is it that this industrialised city can't cope? Natasha Grzincic unmasks Sars in Canada's largest city.
