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The media panic about a rapid rise in new drug-resistant strains of TB in London supposedly linked to immigration is wrong and dangerous

The pressures of our sick society make healthy eating harder for ordinary people, explains John Parrington

Charlotte Monro, a Unison union rep and health worker, was sacked earlier this month. She spoke to Sadie Robinson

This article considers the US health care system as it stands, and then considers what the Affordable Care Act and the Patient Protection Act, (known as Obama Care) will do to improve it. We begin with two statistics, one the US establishment don’t mind talking about and a second one that they remain silent about....

“A&Es were inundated last week with people with coughs, colds and painful throats who couldn’t get an appointment with a GP,” said Sally, a health worker in east London. 

The winter is barely underway but the NHS is already stretched—and the Tories fear they could soon have a disaster on their hands.

The Tories have cut £10 billion from the NHS in the last three years and plan to cut another £10 billion by 2015.

Healthcare under capitalism has always been a contest between the needs of workers and desires of capital, and now the National Health Service faces its biggest battle ever.

Stories claiming that Britain is swamped by migrant ‘health tourists’ who drain the health service are dishonest propaganda for the Tories, argues Sarah Ensor

A new report into mental health services shows that cuts, shortages and short-term thinking is only making them worse, writes Simon Basketter

The Unite union’s health sector committee voted last week for strikes to defend the NHS, and health workers’ pay and conditions.

The Unite union, along with John Lister, Polly Toynbee and health campaigners, has initiated a series of five “People’s inquiries for London’s NHS”.