Politics of Health Group

Speaking out and campaigning on the health impact of politics and power

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Reuters is openly discussing which Labour leaders financial markets might “accept”. It seems they think democracy is legitimate only within limits approved by bond investors, even though the neoliberal economic model has failed millions of people.

https://t.co/MNioj2tZT1

[Alex Scott-Samuel @buzhna]

The next Health Secretary must deal with the fake doctors scandal and implement the Leng Review

https://t.co/ISYGmj9M1r

[Just Treatment 💊 @JustTreatment]

Across the UK bad housing, poorly paid work, pollution & poverty are making us sick, whilst the corporations fuelling these drivers are making billions.

We must tackle these underlying causes of ill health.

Agree? Join our movement: https://t.co/iVo58TwBRl

[Labour Heartlands @Labourheartland]

Palantir: The Ambassador’s Commission

How Peter Mandelson arranged Keir Starmer’s secret visit to a CIA-seeded surveillance firm, how that firm then collected £570 million in public contracts without competitive tender, and how the party that built the NHS is quietly presiding over its surrender to Silicon Valley.

The Labour Party built the National Health Service. It did so against fierce resistance from the medical establishment, from the press, and from a Tory Party that voted against its creation at every turn. That founding act is, by common agreement, the greatest achievement of any British government in the twentieth century. It is the thing Labour points to when it needs to justify its continued existence.

It is worth remembering this as you read what follows.

Because what follows is an account of how the party that built the NHS arranged, in secret and without a single formal minute, a visit by its own Prime Minister to a surveillance technology company seeded by the CIA, founded by a man who believes freedom and democracy are incompatible, and which now holds over half a billion pounds in public contracts covering NHS patient data and military targeting systems.

That visit was arranged by the Prime Minister’s own ambassador to Washington. That ambassador had founded and still held interests in a lobbying firm that listed the same surveillance company as a client. No one in government has explained this. No one in government has been required to.

Read more...on Palantir, Starmer, Mandelson and the £570m Scandal

https://t.co/pgptLDo65T

#Palantir #Starmer #Mandelson #wesstreeting

[Just Treatment 💊 @JustTreatment]

🚨URGENT: The UK-US drug pricing deal is predicted to cause around 300,000 avoidable deaths - more than was lost to COVID.

MPs have until Monday to halt these plans.

Please email your MP and ask them to oppose this raid on our #NHS - takes 2 mins: https://t.co/waC6L9DtVy

[CHPI @CHPIthinktank]

Our research into the profits leaking out of the NHS to private companies is out today. Find out how much profit is leaking out of the NHS in your area here https://t.co/RoQGFV472f

[People's Health Movement Scotland @PHMScotland]

Maximising the health of all Scots requires the demands of our manifesto to be met. A poll of our supporters revealed the following as the first priorities: a right to a healthy environment, a wealth tax and a national care service. Take note election candidates

[People's Health Movement Scotland @PHMScotland]

Today we launch our 2026 People's Health Manifesto for Scotland ahead of the Scottish Parliamentary Elections in May. The manifesto is a tool for the critical analysis of political party manifestos and to facilitate engagement and conversation.
https://t.co/vBRWurd6lT

[Joe Rich @joerichlaw]

BREAKING: Civil Servants issued series of ‘severe warnings’ over proposed NHS deal with Palantir, but Labour Ministers overrode them all and went ahead anyway (via @Guardian) https://t.co/8HJZAE1Jrt

[Alex Scott-Samuel @buzhna]

This superb challenge to these latest crimes against humanity must surely resound around the world

https://t.co/FwYzqcg7wj

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

There are thousands of trained doctors in the UK right now — unemployed. Not because they’re unnecessary. Not because there’s no demand. But because the government refuses to fund the NHS roles we desperately need.

In this video, I explain how government austerity, fiscal dogma, and a fundamental misunderstanding of money are forcing young doctors out of medicine — and even out of the country — while people are left waiting for treatment.

If we have the doctors, we can fund the doctors. So why won’t they?https://t.co/14Yg8MfhyW

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Politicians constantly claim that the government must “live within its means”, just like any family.

In this video, I explain why the household analogy is not only wrong — it is the foundation of austerity, underfunded services, infrastructure decay, suppressed wages and collapsing public trust.

Governments create money. Households use money. Governments must manage real resources, not bank balances. And when governments cut spending, their income falls — the exact opposite of what happens to you or me.

Understanding this difference is essential if we want a better economy, proper public services, fairer taxation and a stronger democracy.

https://t.co/RgdE6slksm

[Alex Scott-Samuel @buzhna]

.@BBCR4Feedback We've had nothing but flat earth economics on all BBC channels in the run-up to the budget. Despite definitive evidence that every £ of public spending is newly created @bankofengland, the neoclassical ideologues prevail @BBC

https://t.co/paTnlZqmE0

[Socialist Health Association @SocialistHealth]

SHA view on the Budget - Socialist Health Association https://t.co/i1qjZsqb5o

[People's Health Movement Scotland @PHMScotland]

Our assembly is starting shortly. Wonderful that so many people from all over Europe are coming together

[Alex Scott-Samuel @buzhna]

Who will blow the whistle on the scandalous suppression of the facts about public money creation? The definitive truth is staring us in the face but neither economists, civil servants, politicians nor media (@BenChu_?) will acknowledge it

https://t.co/paTnlZqmE0

[People's Health Movement Scotland @PHMScotland]

The fight for better health for all Scots is an important one and requires different campaigns and individuals to come together. Join our assembly

[Socialist Health Association @SocialistHealth]

SHA President Prof @AllysonPollock - The impact of outsourcing cataract and hip surgery to private providers

https://t.co/AvkGDgbxHH via @YouTube

[Socialist Health Association @SocialistHealth]

Join us at 6pm today

[Alex Scott-Samuel @buzhna]

SHA emergency motion – Palestine genocide https://t.co/EhZKzVVVUw