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Health professionals issue dire warning that NHS faces biggest crisis since its inception

Originally published: Morning Star Online on January 10, 2021 by Peter Lazenby (more by Morning Star Online) | (Posted Jan 12, 2021)

THE NHS is facing its biggest ever crisis, medical professionals and unions warned today, with hospitals at risk of being swamped by coronavirus admissions.
How market reforms made the NHS vulnerable to pandemics

Originally published: Tribune Mag on March 24, 2020 (more by Tribune Mag) |

A 2014 report warned that reforms to the NHS would make it vulnerable to pandemics – by making staff redundant, undermining public health and defining spare capacity as waste. It was ignored.