Category: National Health Service

PREMIERING July 25, 3 PM ET (8 PM UK): Kristian Niemietz: ‘Supporting the National Health Service is the Only Accepted Form of Patriotism in Britain’ | British Thought Leaders

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Kristian Niemietz, Head of Political Economy at the Institute of Economic Affairs think tank. Kristian is an expert on reformation of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), a topic that has seen him subject to backlash and attack. He talks about the special status the NHS has in the hearts…


UK Nurses to Go on Strike Next Month as Minister Calls Pay Demand ‘Not Affordable’

Nurses in the UK will stage a national strike next month, which is set to be the biggest industrial action in the history of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS). The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said on Nov. 25 that its members will stage their first ever national walkout on Dec. 15 and 20, after…


England’s ‘Freedom Day’ Marred by Isolation Chaos and Warnings of Shortages

LONDON—Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “freedom day” ending over a year of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in England was marred on Monday by warnings of supermarket shortages and his own forced self-isolation. Johnson’s bet that he can get one of Europe’s largest economies firing again because so many people are now vaccinated marks a new chapter in…


Concerned for Children, UK Doctor Warns of Vaccine Risks, Is Suspended

Commentary Sam White qualified as a doctor in 2004 and quickly rose to become a partner in a rural medical practice in Hampshire, England, but after he questioned the response of the National Health Service (NHS) to the pandemic his career with the agency was effectively over. To begin with he had tried to raise…