HIV i-Base continue to report on COVID-19 vaccination and treatment. The Q&A service on the i-Base website has been answering many questions about coronavirus vaccinations. Please see this new question: Are animal products in the COVID vaccines? Are they Halal? https://i-base.info/qa/16668 Answer: The vaccines are safe and recommended if you are Muslim. There are no … Read more
NHSE/I consultation on “Integrating care: Next steps to building strong and effective integrated care systems across England” Response to the consultation by Professor Allyson Pollock and Peter Roderick, Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University; and David Price, independent researcher 8 January 2021 Overview Publication of the next steps document during the covid-19 pandemic comes at … Read more
by Esther Giles, Former Director of Finance (Specialised Services) South Region of England, SHA member” This article tracks the extent and nature of marketisation and privatisation in the NHS up to the current proposed move to Integrated care systems (ICSs) and argues that the current ICS proposals are the logical conclusion of the marketisation reforms … Read more
HIV i-Base continue to report on COVID-19 research and treatment as a supplement to HIV treatment research and information. Copying and distribution of i-Base infomation is encouraged – and free – but please credit HIV i-Base as source. You can see this Q&A here or read it below: Q&A on COVID vaccines: are they safe … Read more
Issue: 111 – 10 November 2020 Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine This could be the only good Covid-19 news we have had in a very long time. Regulators have still not approved the vaccine though, but allegedly this will happen soon. According to DHSC guidelines issued in September 2020, the top priority list for those being given … Read more
From Mark Ladbrooke, of Oxford SHA branch, and formerly chair of Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust (OUHT) Joint Union Committee Oscar King, Jr. and Elbert Rico, porters at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, and union activists, died two weeks ago of suspected Covid-19. Both of them are married to members of the nursing team at the … Read more
BUYING BEDS FROM PRIVATE HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS Can the minister explain why the Government has chosen to buy beds from private healthcare providers rather than requisitioning private hospitals and staff as the Spanish Government has done? The Centre for Health and Public Information (CHPI) has demonstrated that the government’s deal to purchase their entire capacity in … Read more
Open letter to Sir Keir Starmer. Dear Sir Keir, On behalf of members of the Socialist Health Association we offer you our sincere congratulations on becoming Leader of the Labour Party and our full support at this difficult time for the United Kingdom. You assume office at a time of crisis, the seeds of which … Read more
Report back from the Labour Party Conference, Brighton September 2019 SHA Central Council members spoke to two Composite motions at conference and to a Reference Back. Saturday 21 September. For the Many Not the Few. As some of you may know our delegate Andy Thompson was taken seriously ill on the Friday before the Conference. … Read more
April 2014 Call for Action—for a democratically accountable, membership led SHA The Socialist Health Association’s January Central Council (CC) and March AGM have highlighted serious issues of governance and accountability within the SHA, problems which remain to be addressed. The AGM did not adopt either the Treasurer’s or the Auditor’s report and merely noted the … Read more
Is this the knife poised to finally kill the NHS and the post 1945 social settlement? Throughout the 80s under Thatcher, but particularly since the Health and Social Care Act (2012), contract after contract for health provision has gone to the for profit private sector. Sometimes the NHS has won contracts, sometimes the privateer, but … Read more
I trust that the latest episode of “Hancock’s Half Hour” made you laugh a lot. The transcript of his speech, exactly as it was delivered on 20 July 2018, is available here, in case you missed it. It was the same script, more or less, but delivered by a different newsreader. As once said, it … Read more