John Lister
30 June 2018 · · NHS
NHS England forced to retreat on key plans
It’s becoming very difficult for NHS England to sneak any changes past increasingly suspicious campaigners and an increasingly vocal local public: that’s the encouraging message from their d…
29 June 2018 · · NHS
NHS short changed by Tories!
After ridiculing health workers demanding more funding for the NHS and insisting there was no “magic money tree,” Theresa May seemed to have found it, writes John Lister editor of Health Cam…
19 October 2017 · · NHS
Storm warning for the NHS
It was difficult to miss the early warnings to people in the vulnerable areas that Hurricane Ophelia was headed for Britain and Ireland. The storm signals were taken seriously, writes John L…
17 May 2017 · · NHS
Labour's giant step forward on health
John Lister reports: The huge demonstration #ourNHS demonstration through London on March 4, called by Health Campaigns Together, was estimated by police and the media at upwards of 200,000 …
25 May 2016 ·
NHS: Turn Cameron’s retreat into a rout!
John Lister looks at the situation facing the NHS: A U-turn last week by an increasingly uncertain government underlines the deep divisions within the Tory Party over the EU Referendum next …
23 November 2015 ·
Junior doctors – fighting to defend our NHS
John Lister reports: The stunning scale of the turnout and vote for strike action by 30,000 junior doctors, mobilised into action to oppose the new contract which Jeremy Hunt has threatened …
3 October 2013 ·
What’s behind Tory onslaught on our NHS?
They're up for a fight The privatisation of health care services is racing ahead in Britain, outstripping the pace of change in comparable countries: last year almost 9 percent of England’s …
6 November 2012 · · 1 comment
Healthcare: private feast, public famine
The impact of the Health & Social Care Act on the NHS is neatly summed up by the event on November 29 organised by Healthinvestor magazine, at which you can book seats at £330 per head to ta…
8 January 2010 · · 2 comments
Not quite a clash of Titans
Both Labour and the Tories are pledged to a full spectrum of public spending cuts. John Lister looks at the consequences In a new year clash of Titans, Chancellor Alistair Darling locked hor…
23 August 2009 · · 1 comment
Left Unity: a view from Fantasy Island
John Lister reviews Mark Perryman’s Compass ‘Think Pieces’ pamphlet ‘We’re all in this together’ To judge from this barely coherent 5-page pamphlet, Mark Perryman appears to live in what fol…