Stafford has become both justification and template for a full-scale assault on NHS hospitals - exploited by politicians and businesses who profit from cuts and privatisation.
Being referred to a private hospital by the NHS doesn't neccessarily mean better care.
As with schools, now with hospitals - but where will league tables and 'special measures' lead the NHS?
Stuck for some holiday reading? Why not brush up on what's happening to our NHS...
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As NHS funding cuts bite, are NHS hospitals muddying the waters between NHS and private patients?
As G4S is exposed for overcharging on government contracts, we ask - just what is G4S doing in the NHS?
As a new study shows the private sector winning the race for NHS contracts, Julius Marstrand of Cheltenham discusses how it is affecting ambulance services in the NHS in the South West.
Despite some inaccuracies from the BBC, the trade deal will deliver minimal economic benefit at best. What we are actually seeing is the framework for increased privatisation, investor protection, and a potential new era of finance in which tolls replace lending as the key profit stream.
Public resources face new sell-off threats - but once we lose our public buildings and land, it's gone for good.
As part of our new "Reclaiming the NHS" series, a practice nurse and 38 Degrees member from Luton who wishes to remain anonymous has come forward to reveal dangerous decision-making by health bosses in her area.
Health must be provided socially yet the NHS needs some fundamental reshaping. Campaigners should look at the AIDS activism of the US in the 80s - it's not enough to win the arguments, you need social organisation, solidarity and shrewd leverage of the political system.
