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The NHS: online and out of sight?
SOLOMON HUGHES reveals the reasons why the Tories are pushing a ‘see-your-GP-by smartphone’ approach nobody, doctors or patients, asked for
THE DOCTOR WON’T SEE YOU NOW: App ‘Push Doctor’ has been ruled unsafe
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
ONLINE GP consultations are at the centre of the Tories’ new “NHS Plan.”
There is no big demand from within the NHS for online GPs or real evidence they will improve health. So why?
Well first, it will hand over more NHS services to big corporations. Second, a former Tory Health Minister, who is currently an adviser to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, works for an online GP firm: Nicola Blackwood now sits on the board of Push Dr Lt, which calls itself “the UK’s number 1 online doctor.”
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