Green Party deputy leader MOTHIN ALI, who will speak at the International Anti-War Conference in London on June 20, says Britain needs to rethink its priorities – and its allies
July is not yet over — but it is already jam-packed with symptoms of the escalating crisis and chaos unleashed by the coalition’s unprecedented spending freeze and top-down reorganisation to replace planned health services with a healthcare “market.”
June ended with revelations that the soaring numbers still crowding into A&E departments are driven by the fact that one in four could not get an appointment with their GPs.
July began with new figures on the scale of the cuts still being driven through in social care, even as local commissioning groups hatch more plans to downsize hospitals and deliver more care “closer to home.”
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
We need a massive change in direction to renew a crumbling health service — that’s why Plaid Cymru has an ambitious plan to recentre primary care by recruiting 500 additional GPs and opening six new elective care hubs across Wales, writes MABON AP GWYNFOR
Government urged ‘to tackle the root causes’ of the NHS crisis and improve ‘social care services’


