Rathi Guhadasan
@rathi-sha.bsky.social
National Chair of Socialist Health Association, Paediatrician, Humanitarian
Congratulations @townsendprod.bsky.social for their production of “We Are The Lions Mr Manager” last night, near to the original Grunswick factory site, and attended by some of those who supported the strikes.
Still on tour - highly recommend for anyone who can catch it.
@brenttuc.bsky.social
Still on tour - highly recommend for anyone who can catch it.
@brenttuc.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Congratulations @townsendprod.bsky.social for their production of “We Are The Lions Mr Manager” last night, near to the original Grunswick factory site, and attended by some of those who supported the strikes.
Still on tour - highly recommend for anyone who can catch it.
@brenttuc.bsky.social
Still on tour - highly recommend for anyone who can catch it.
@brenttuc.bsky.social
Reposted by Rathi Guhadasan
Five years have passed & the situation is so much worse. Labour has accelerated privatisation, reintroduced PFI & allowed downskilled "physician associates" to do the work of doctors
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Save our NHS
YouTube video by Felicity Dowling
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November 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Five years have passed & the situation is so much worse. Labour has accelerated privatisation, reintroduced PFI & allowed downskilled "physician associates" to do the work of doctors
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“The government’s proposal today is more than a mistake, it flies in the face of overwhelming evidence that PFI has already financially crippled trusts, diverted funds away from patient care and is against the public interest.”
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Statement on the use of PFI to fund Neighbourhood Health Centres - Socialist Health Association
The Socialist Health Association strongly opposes the government's plans to reintroduce Private Finance Initiative (PFI) -style schemes to fund NHS Neighbourhood Health Centres, which were announced t...
sochealth.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
“The government’s proposal today is more than a mistake, it flies in the face of overwhelming evidence that PFI has already financially crippled trusts, diverted funds away from patient care and is against the public interest.”
sochealth.co.uk/2025/11/25/s...
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A government health minister just announced plans to use the private sector to build and maintain neighbourhood health centres.
This is PFI 2.0.
PFI is an unforgivable waste of public money - straight into private profit and at the expense of patient care.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
This is PFI 2.0.
PFI is an unforgivable waste of public money - straight into private profit and at the expense of patient care.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
A government health minister just announced plans to use the private sector to build and maintain neighbourhood health centres.
This is PFI 2.0.
PFI is an unforgivable waste of public money - straight into private profit and at the expense of patient care.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
This is PFI 2.0.
PFI is an unforgivable waste of public money - straight into private profit and at the expense of patient care.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
Labour’s asylum proposals are a denial of fundamental health and human rights to the most vulnerable and a betrayal of health equity principles.
Read why in my article here:
sochealth.co.uk/2025/11/19/r...
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
Read why in my article here:
sochealth.co.uk/2025/11/19/r...
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
Rethink Approach To Asylum - Socialist Health Association
The Wrong Prescription – Why Labour Must Rethink Its Approach To Asylum Rathi Guhadasan, 18 November 2025The Socialist Health Association condemns the asylum reforms announced this week by Home Secret...
sochealth.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Labour’s asylum proposals are a denial of fundamental health and human rights to the most vulnerable and a betrayal of health equity principles.
Read why in my article here:
sochealth.co.uk/2025/11/19/r...
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
Read why in my article here:
sochealth.co.uk/2025/11/19/r...
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
TUC 2025 delegates, we’re here! Stand 15, lots of seating by us 😊.
Looking forward to chatting with you about how we can work together to restore our NHS to the fully publicly provided service we all deserve.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
#PatientsNotProfits
Looking forward to chatting with you about how we can work together to restore our NHS to the fully publicly provided service we all deserve.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
#PatientsNotProfits
September 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
TUC 2025 delegates, we’re here! Stand 15, lots of seating by us 😊.
Looking forward to chatting with you about how we can work together to restore our NHS to the fully publicly provided service we all deserve.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
#PatientsNotProfits
Looking forward to chatting with you about how we can work together to restore our NHS to the fully publicly provided service we all deserve.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
#PatientsNotProfits
Join us at @tuc.org.uk 2025, stand 15 from Sunday and at our fringe meeting in the Restaurant at the Brighton Centre on Monday 12:45-2pm.
Lunch available! All welcome!
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
Lunch available! All welcome!
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Join us at @tuc.org.uk 2025, stand 15 from Sunday and at our fringe meeting in the Restaurant at the Brighton Centre on Monday 12:45-2pm.
Lunch available! All welcome!
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
Lunch available! All welcome!
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
Tonight! - Join @socialisthealth.bsky.social in discussion with Dr David Walsh, on his latest book, “Social Murder” - describing how austerity lowered life expectancy, widened inequalities and drove people to suicide.
July 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Tonight! - Join @socialisthealth.bsky.social in discussion with Dr David Walsh, on his latest book, “Social Murder” - describing how austerity lowered life expectancy, widened inequalities and drove people to suicide.
Happy birthday NHS - but in the face of a 10 year plan to replace drs and hospitals with AI and “community hubs”, likely funded by PFI, we must fight for a fully publicly funded, fully publicly provided NHS.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
#NHS77
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#NHS77
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A check-up for the NHS
By Dr Rathi Guhadasan On the NHS’s 77th birthday, with Labour marking one year in government yesterday and Thursday’s publication of the “10-year plan”, what better time to give the NHS its own hea…
labourhub.org.uk
July 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Happy birthday NHS - but in the face of a 10 year plan to replace drs and hospitals with AI and “community hubs”, likely funded by PFI, we must fight for a fully publicly funded, fully publicly provided NHS.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
#NHS77
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@socialisthealth.bsky.social
#NHS77
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@socialisthealth.bsky.social newsletter - find out about upcoming event in Manchester with @andyburnham.bsky.social , read about the public harms from outsourcing NHS services and more…
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May 31, 2025 at 8:21 AM
@socialisthealth.bsky.social newsletter - find out about upcoming event in Manchester with @andyburnham.bsky.social , read about the public harms from outsourcing NHS services and more…
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TODAY - open to all - please tune in for our
@SocHealthLondon
meeting with Professor Allyson Pollock on the harms of outsourcing NHS services and how to fight for OUR NHS.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
Online on 27th May at 7:30pm. Link below.
#SaveOurNHS
@SocHealthLondon
meeting with Professor Allyson Pollock on the harms of outsourcing NHS services and how to fight for OUR NHS.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
Online on 27th May at 7:30pm. Link below.
#SaveOurNHS
May 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
TODAY - open to all - please tune in for our
@SocHealthLondon
meeting with Professor Allyson Pollock on the harms of outsourcing NHS services and how to fight for OUR NHS.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
Online on 27th May at 7:30pm. Link below.
#SaveOurNHS
@SocHealthLondon
meeting with Professor Allyson Pollock on the harms of outsourcing NHS services and how to fight for OUR NHS.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
Online on 27th May at 7:30pm. Link below.
#SaveOurNHS
Great work from @newstatesman.com to highlight some costly and harmful practices behind the “fall in waiting lists” that we constantly hear about.
Having tests ordered by a GP is NOT the same as seeing a specialist btw.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
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Having tests ordered by a GP is NOT the same as seeing a specialist btw.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
The NHS will be paid to cut waiting lists – at great cost to patient safety
Are some people destined to become collateral damage so that lists “fall” faster?
www.newstatesman.com
May 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Great work from @newstatesman.com to highlight some costly and harmful practices behind the “fall in waiting lists” that we constantly hear about.
Having tests ordered by a GP is NOT the same as seeing a specialist btw.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
Having tests ordered by a GP is NOT the same as seeing a specialist btw.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
I can’t believe the world watched a genocide for 20 months and couldn’t stop it.
Good luck for the #Nakba77 events around the country today. If you are in London, look out for the @socialisthealth.bsky.social banner - say hello if you see us ✊🏾🍉
#StopArmingIsrael
#CeasefireNow
#FreePalestine
Good luck for the #Nakba77 events around the country today. If you are in London, look out for the @socialisthealth.bsky.social banner - say hello if you see us ✊🏾🍉
#StopArmingIsrael
#CeasefireNow
#FreePalestine
May 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I can’t believe the world watched a genocide for 20 months and couldn’t stop it.
Good luck for the #Nakba77 events around the country today. If you are in London, look out for the @socialisthealth.bsky.social banner - say hello if you see us ✊🏾🍉
#StopArmingIsrael
#CeasefireNow
#FreePalestine
Good luck for the #Nakba77 events around the country today. If you are in London, look out for the @socialisthealth.bsky.social banner - say hello if you see us ✊🏾🍉
#StopArmingIsrael
#CeasefireNow
#FreePalestine
“Outsourcing is worsening outcomes, fuelling inequality and hollowing out the NHS from within.” - Prof Allyson Pollock’s new study shows the devastating impact of outsourcing NHS surgery to private providers.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
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April 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“Outsourcing is worsening outcomes, fuelling inequality and hollowing out the NHS from within.” - Prof Allyson Pollock’s new study shows the devastating impact of outsourcing NHS surgery to private providers.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
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@socialisthealth.bsky.social
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The wasteful internal market of the NHS must be dismantled. Read @socialisthealth.bsky.social ‘s article on the extent of NHS privatisation in @mstaronline.bsky.social today.
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Don't feed the fatcats: how the NHS became corporate health | Morning Star
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April 26, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The wasteful internal market of the NHS must be dismantled. Read @socialisthealth.bsky.social ‘s article on the extent of NHS privatisation in @mstaronline.bsky.social today.
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The 2 child benefit cap must be scrapped. Disgraceful to see this level of child poverty in the 6th richest country in the world.
Six out of every seven children in the UK's most deprived areas living in poverty.
Result of political choices - low wages, austerity, unchecked profiteering, benefit cuts, inequitable distribution of wealth.
Future blighted.
Govts listen to donors/rich, ignore the rest.
Result of political choices - low wages, austerity, unchecked profiteering, benefit cuts, inequitable distribution of wealth.
Future blighted.
Govts listen to donors/rich, ignore the rest.
Six out of seven UK kids live in poverty - map shows how your area fares
A record-high 4.5million children across the country were found to have been living in poverty in the year ending March 2024 - 121,000 more children than the year prior
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April 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The 2 child benefit cap must be scrapped. Disgraceful to see this level of child poverty in the 6th richest country in the world.
Reposted by Rathi Guhadasan
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is facing mounting criticism from health care professionals and the opposition after suggesting hospitals are misusing surgical funding — a claim her own health minister later contradicted
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Alberta premier’s comments on surgical funding spark backlash
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is facing mounting criticism from health-care professionals and the opposition after suggesting hospitals are misusing surgical funding — a claim her own health minister...
www.ctvnews.ca
April 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is facing mounting criticism from health care professionals and the opposition after suggesting hospitals are misusing surgical funding — a claim her own health minister later contradicted
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
Interesting reading for anyone who thinks using private providers to bring down waiting lists is a good idea.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
This covers what you need to know about Alberta’s costly experience & poor performance with surgery privatization over the last five years — and how it relates to the corruption scandal rocking the province
@picardonhealth.bsky.social @drgorfinkel.bsky.social @iris-recherche.bsky.social
@picardonhealth.bsky.social @drgorfinkel.bsky.social @iris-recherche.bsky.social
Bleeding Money: Alberta’s Private Healthcare Shift thetyee.ca/News/2025/04... @charlesrusnell.bsky.social
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
April 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Interesting reading for anyone who thinks using private providers to bring down waiting lists is a good idea.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
Completely agree @alonghurst.bsky.social. In the UK we have seen an expansion of urgent care centres at the expense of access to ED care and GP’s. No advantage for patients at all.
#PatientsNotProfits
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
#PatientsNotProfits
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
Someone please inform the Alberta government that more episodic (urgent) care is not what Alberta needs
The evidence is clear that ongoing care with a consistent team improves outcomes, reduces hospital use, lowers costs
🚨The urgent care model is an invention of US for-profits🚨
The evidence is clear that ongoing care with a consistent team improves outcomes, reduces hospital use, lowers costs
🚨The urgent care model is an invention of US for-profits🚨
March 30, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Completely agree @alonghurst.bsky.social. In the UK we have seen an expansion of urgent care centres at the expense of access to ED care and GP’s. No advantage for patients at all.
#PatientsNotProfits
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
#PatientsNotProfits
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
“Labour fought against Tory austerity, now 250,000 people will be pushed into poverty and the most vulnerable will die.” Kathy Bole, @disabilitylabour.bsky.social at Arise today.
#AusteritylsAPoliticalChoice
@SocialistHealth
@SocHealthLondon
#AusteritylsAPoliticalChoice
@SocialistHealth
@SocHealthLondon
March 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“Labour fought against Tory austerity, now 250,000 people will be pushed into poverty and the most vulnerable will die.” Kathy Bole, @disabilitylabour.bsky.social at Arise today.
#AusteritylsAPoliticalChoice
@SocialistHealth
@SocHealthLondon
#AusteritylsAPoliticalChoice
@SocialistHealth
@SocHealthLondon
@ianbyrnemp.bsky.social speaking powerfully at Arise on the impacts of proposed welfare reforms.
#WelfareNotWarfare
#AusterityIsAPoliticalChoice
#WelfareNotWarfare
#AusterityIsAPoliticalChoice
March 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
@ianbyrnemp.bsky.social speaking powerfully at Arise on the impacts of proposed welfare reforms.
#WelfareNotWarfare
#AusterityIsAPoliticalChoice
#WelfareNotWarfare
#AusterityIsAPoliticalChoice
Come and visit us today at the Peel Institute as part of the Arise festival.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Come and visit us today at the Peel Institute as part of the Arise festival.
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
Reposted by Rathi Guhadasan
Tonight in Birmingham, we united against the far-right — demanding real solutions, not scapegoats.
This is just the start.
The first of many rallies.
The launch of a movement — a coalition of unions, activists and communities standing together to fight fascism.
Get ready! 💪🏽
This is just the start.
The first of many rallies.
The launch of a movement — a coalition of unions, activists and communities standing together to fight fascism.
Get ready! 💪🏽
March 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Tonight in Birmingham, we united against the far-right — demanding real solutions, not scapegoats.
This is just the start.
The first of many rallies.
The launch of a movement — a coalition of unions, activists and communities standing together to fight fascism.
Get ready! 💪🏽
This is just the start.
The first of many rallies.
The launch of a movement — a coalition of unions, activists and communities standing together to fight fascism.
Get ready! 💪🏽
@alonghurst.bsky.social The same policies are being employed in the U.K. right now to “bring down waiting lists” @wesstreetingmp.bsky.social
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
#PatientsNotProfits
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
#PatientsNotProfits
Oh look. Same story in New Zealand.
Outsourcing surgeries to private providers will cost at least twice as much as just funding the public health system. Private providers need to make a profit, it's just business. #nzpol #bhn #freehealthcare www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
March 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
@alonghurst.bsky.social The same policies are being employed in the U.K. right now to “bring down waiting lists” @wesstreetingmp.bsky.social
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
#PatientsNotProfits
@socialisthealth.bsky.social
#PatientsNotProfits