Health

Health

• Peak inequality: Britain's ticking time bomb - review

  

  Danny Dorling’s Peak Inequality provides powerful evidence of the damage that rising inequality has had across housing, education, health and demography, finds Sean Ledwith

• Mass walkout as Irish nurses and midwives stage historic strike

  

  35,000 nurses and midwives joined a 24-hour national strike on Wednesday with more action planned for next week, reports Eóin Ó Murchú

• Ontario becomes a testing ground for hyper austerity

  

  Creative organising and resistance are urgently needed as a rampant, austerity-bent Tory government carves its way through Ontario, reports John Clarke

• Unclear and divisive: not the deal our NHS workers deserve

  

  NHS workers have been pressured into accepting a deliberately misleading deal, explains a health worker and union representative 

• Best images from the #OurNHS70 demo - live updates

  

  Tens of thousands march in London, joined by Jeremy Corbyn, from across the UK to defend the NHS on its 70^th birthday and demand it is #Free4AllForever

• Healthcare for the many - book extract

  

  In this extract from Mike Phipps' edited collection, For the Many... Preparing Labour for Power, Allyson Pollock takes a close look at healthcare in the Labour manifesto

• Jeremy Hunt should have been sacked, not promoted

  

  As part of her reshuffle, May has added Social Care to Jeremy Hunt's remit. The People's Assembly and Health Campaigns Together respond

• NHS Emergency Demonstration - model resolution

  

  The People's Assembly have drafted a model motion to submit to trade union branches, Trades Councils, CLPs and other campaign groups to support the NHS Emergency demonstration on Saturday 3 February

• Reactions to Budget 2017: resisting Foodbank Britain

  

  Despite heavy opposition and protests, Philip Hammond's budget continues with austerity. A short round up from Counterfire of some of the reactions.

• Fight for $15: McStrike in the US

  

  Care workers and fast-food workers came together in South Philadephia on US Labor Day

• Epidemics, multinationals and capitalism

  

  From Ebola to swine flu, multinationals and their capitalist production systems are the real causes of new epidemic diseases, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh

• Now is the time for nurses to fight back!

  

  As the government insults NHS staff once again, on the ground, a serious fightback is on the cards

• Why nurses will be so angry at this budget: NHS and resistance

  

  As Philip Hammond puts tax cuts before the NHS in his budget, we print this speech from Saturday's brilliant ourNHS demo by nurse militant Danielle Tiplady

• NHS: a manufactured crisis

  

  We must mobilise against the biggest threat to our healthcare service in history, writes Danielle Tiplady

• Daniel Blake: an everyday tragedy

  

  Austerity penalises the most vulnerable in our society. This government’s record is shameful and we most hold the Tories to account, writes Dr Mona Kamal

• I’m a nurse, not a border guard

  

  Student nurses will be joining the Convoy to Calais on 18 June. Danielle Tiplady from Bursary or Bust explains why

• In a stink about a pink St George Cross

  

  Professional controversialist Toby Young has got himself all in a froth about a pink St George Cross at England’s international this week

• Mental health services: how they fail young people and what can be done about it

  

  Slashed budgets, stressed workers and young people in desperate need across England and Wales. Something’s got to give

• Squandered lives: how young people struggle to find decent mental health care

  

  Vulnerable young people suffering from mental illness are not getting the help that they need. Kesia’s story

• Why should I care about junior doctors?

  

  If we don’t support the junior doctors and the NHS now, we risk losing it, says Sian Beasley

• Inequality and the 1%

  

  Inequality and the 1%, Danny Dorling’s new book, demonstrates the harm done to the whole of society by rising inequality, finds Orlando Hill

• Ebola: epidemics and imperialism

  

  This devastating epidemic reveals the warped priorities of imperialism argues Explo Nani-Kofi

• The scandal of private healthcare in UK immigration detention centres

  

  Four years ago G4S was involved in the unlawful killing of an immigration detainee called Jimmy Mubenga. Now they're winning NHS contracts to provide medical care for immigration detainees

• Black and dangerous? Listening to patients’ experiences of mental health services in London

  

  Why are black people with mental health problems still more likely than whites to be heavily medicated, restrained and detained against their will?

• Children's health - a casualty in Osborne's war on the poor

  

  As George Osborne promises fresh hardship for the working poor, Prof Michael Marmot and Dr Angela Donkin look at the impact of growing inequality on child health