The End of the British Welfare State
Food bank use rises dramatically in Britain
By Dennis Moore, February 9, 2012
Tens of thousands of Britons are struggling to make ends meet, forcing ever greater numbers to resort to the use of food banks.
Britain’s National Health Service faces wholesale privatisation
By Robert Stevens, January 31, 2012
Free and comprehensive health care is set to end with the passage of the Conservative/Liberal Democrat government’s Health and Social Care Bill 2011.
Members of 20 UK unions vote to join strike over pensions
By Tony Hyland, November 26, 2011
Some two million workers are expected to take part in the November 30 Day of Action against attacks on public sector pensions.
A reader responds on the suicide deaths of UK couple
November 19, 2011
A reader’s letter on the article “UK couple driven to suicide by poverty and neglect”.
Private finance contracts threaten UK health care
By Eileen Hyland, October 4, 2011
Britain’s Conservative Party health secretary Andrew Lansley recently stated that more than 60 Private Finance Initiative (PFI) hospitals were on the brink of financial collapse.
Pervasive unemployment and poverty in London areas hit by riots
By Paul Stuart, August 16, 2011
The British political establishment is imposing vicious class justice against young people accused of involvement in last week’s riots that swept London and other cities, areas devastated by joblessness and cuts to social services.
UK elderly care report pushes private insurance
By Julie Hyland, July 11, 2011
The report published Tuesday by Andrew Dilnot detailing the findings of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support reveals an official consensus on the dismantling of essential publicly-funded social provision.
UK: Official guidelines to deal with suicide by the jobless
By Robert Stevens, May 18, 2011
The Department for Work and Pensions has issued official guidance on how to deal with a claimant who threatens suicide.
Britain: National Health Service cuts target jobs and patient care
By Daniel O’Flynn, May 3, 2011
Since the beginning of the year, not a day has gone by without a new announcement on far-reaching cuts to the National Health Service.
Plans to privatise Britain’s National Health Service stall
By Julie Hyland, April 8, 2011
Britain’s government has placed on hold its Health and Social Care Bill, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley told parliament on Tuesday.
UK National Health Service faces wholesale privatization
By Stephen Alexander, January 25, 2011
The Conservative-Liberal Democrat government’s Health and Social Care Bill, introduced to Parliament last Wednesday, aims to dismantle the National Health Service (NHS) and hand over its profitable components to private corporations.
Critics of UK cuts warn that National Health Service “could collapse”
By Barry Mason, December 28, 2010
Senior figures in the UK’s National Health Service have warned that the government proposals to reform health care could lead it to “implode” or face a “train crash”.
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