#126: The war on the NHS (ft. Dr Dan Goyal)

Our guest Dr Dan Goyal outlines what the deliberate under funding of the NHS has done to working conditions, the relentless stress nurses face, the impact of covid and the false economics of private health care.

We also discuss the recent news that the UK government are trying to make striking illegal for healthcare workers and the efforts to fightback.

References:

Dr Dan Goyal: https://twitter.com/danielgoyal

NHS Millions - "We're creating a superteam of a million people who are grateful for NHS  staff and happy to support them long after Covid is over": https://www.nhsmillion.co.uk/

EveryDoctor - Doctor-led campaign organisation fighting for a better NHS: https://www.everydoctor.org.uk/

“we all dread coming into work and cry after every shift. We didn’t sign up to do war medicine”: https://twitter.com/Dr_BellaR/status/1611045082169212931

Unions have criticised a new bill aimed at enforcing minimum service levels for the public sector during strikes as "undemocratic, unworkable and illegal": https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64219016

Unite Tears Into Government’s Demand For ‘Productivity Savings’ After Pay Talks: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/unite-says-further-nhs-strikes-will-go-ahead-after-talks-leave-him-very-angry_uk_63bc0debe4b0cbfd55eacdad

Exercise Cygnus - a three-day simulation exercise carried out by the UK Government in October 2016 to estimate the impact of a hypothetical H2N2 influenza pandemic on the United Kingdom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_Cygnus

Rishi “flew to California to talk to US private healthcare firms and has recently appointed a private healthcare advisor.”: https://twitter.com/embournemouth/status/1609140439495610369?s=20&t=LXY14NuKaX7PZAFingzw8Q

Novara Media /  The Times - "A decade of Tory spending cuts left the country vulnerable to the external shocks of the past two years": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL5ixsGdUrE

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