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Goretti Horgan explains how decades of underfunding and creeping privatisation has undermined the once treasured NHS. During the COVID crisis, People before Profit and others initiated a campaign for an All-Ireland NHS. The reasoning was simple: Covid-19 plunged the health and social care systems, north and south of
Covid-19
Writing on behalf of the All-Ireland NHS campaign, Chris Carroll analyses the limits of the current plan for fixing healthcare: Sláintecare. He argues the lessons of history show that instead of its technical approach we need a broad movement to win a 32-county universal healthcare system. “Medicine is
Covid-19
Despite the heroic efforts of overworked and underpaid frontline workers, the pandemic has exposed the sorry state of health services north and south. Conor Reddy argues that the case for an All-Ireland National Health Service has never been stronger. As Covid-19 case numbers rise and hospitals once again