NHS under siege

Part 1:

1. How did we get to this? The state of our NHS after a decade of decline;
2.The Decade of 'austerity', 2010-2019;
3. Austerity and the staffing crisis in health and care, 2010-2019;
4. 2020 - Covid crisis worsens an already bad situation;
5: 2021 - Post-Covid crisis: NHS rolling backwards on non-Covid treatment;
6: 2021 - onwards: no end to starvation of resources Inadequate spending review;
7: The growing costs of privatisation;
8: Repairing the damage and restoring the NHS.

Part 2:

Short expert contributions on key issues:

David Wrigley, Deputy Chair British Medical Association, on primary care;
Neena Modi, Prof. Neonatal Medicine at Imperial College, on child and adolescent health, including mental health;
Jan Shortt, General Secretary of the National Pensioners Convention, on care for the elderly;
Michael Mansfield, barrister QC, on holding the government to account;
Martin McKee, Prof. European Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, on public health;
Sara Gorton, Head of Health UNISON, Privatisation, on pay and conditions of NHS staff;
Colenzo Jarret-Thorpe, National Officer Unite, the Health & Care Bill, on ambulance and other staff;
Rehana Azam, National Secretary Public Services GMB, on the Covid enquiry and outsourced staff;
Roy Lilley, health policy analyst, on management views;
Roger Kline, Research fellow at Middlesex University, on equalities and BAME;
Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary, National Education Union, on Covid, education and schools;
Sir Michael Marmot, Prof. of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, on health inequality.

About the Authors:

Dr John Lister has been a health journalist for 38 years, Editor of Health Campaigns Together and The Lowdown, a founder member of Keep Our NHS Public, a public speaker, and the author of books on the NHS and global health policy;

Dr Jacky Davis is a consultant radiologist in north London. She is a founder member of the Keep Our NHS Public campaign, a member of the BMA UK Council and recently sat on the panel of the People's Covid Inquiry. She is co-author of NHS SOS and NHS For Sale.