Blackpool – Kicking the Poorest People into the Gutter

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/01/blackpool-kicking-the-poorest-people-into-the-gutter/

Bernie Sanders criticizes #AI as most consequential technology in humanity

#BernieSanders amplified criticism of AI, explicitly linking #financial ambition of richest people to economic insecurity for millions

If there are no #jobs, #humans won’t be needed for most things. How do people get money to

- Feed family
- Get healthcare
- Pay the rent?

There’s not been one serious word of discussion in the Congress about that #reality

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/28/bernie-sanders-artificial-intelligence-ai-datacenters

#CapitalismFail #PeopleNotProfits

Petition · Make COVID-19 #Vaccines Universally Available in the #UK

Evidence shows #COVID vaccine reduces numbers of infection, hospitalisations, deaths

Recent political decisions failed to prioritize this vital public health measure, ignoring both evidence & long-term health benefits of widespread vaccination

A huge number of people can't access free COVID-19 vaccinations, creating substantial public health risk for everyone

https://www.change.org/p/make-covid-19-vaccines-universally-available-in-the-uk-free-of-charge?utm_source=Mastodon

#HealthCare #PeopleNotProfits #SaveOurNHS

UK Government department has been delivered giant novelty cheque in #protest over proposals to hike #NHS drug costs

Campaigners pulled the stunt at Department for #Health and Social Care headquarters in London on Monday to highlight opposition to proposed changes to drug price guidelines that would hike #costs to offset the effects of Donald #Trump’s #tariffs.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25539667.health-bosses-delivered-giant-cheque-protest-drug-hike-plans/

#ToxicLabour #RedReform #SaveOurNHS #PeopleNotProfits #HealthCare #greed #Labour #Starmer #StockholmSyndrome

Which political parties support public ownership?

- Do you want #NHS that works for patients not profit?
- Water in public hands to end #sewage in your rivers, seas?
- No more #profiteering from #energy #bills?
- Public #transport & Royal Mail should be publicly owned?

Answered yes? You’re in the majority. But politicians NOT listening

You can find out below with our easy overview of where the main political parties stand on #PublicOwnership

https://weownit.org.uk/why-public-ownership/which-parties-support-public-ownership

#PeopleNotProfits

"In multiprofessionellen Teams bringen Ärzt:innen, Pflegefachpersonen – vor allem auf Masterniveau ausgebildete Community Health Nurses (CHN) –, Apotheker:innen und andere Gesundheitsberufe ihre fachliche Expertise ein: von der eigenständigen Bedarfserhebung, über Medikationsmanagement bis hin zur Prävention und Vermittlung von Gesundheitskompetenzen. Internationale Studien belegen, dass dies die Versorgungsqualität verbessert."

Pressemitteilung:

https://www.verbaende.com/news/pressemitteilung/primaerversorgung-neu-denken-dbfk-vdaeae-und-vdpp-fordern-primaerversorgungszentren-statt-primaerarztsystem-168335/

#PeopleNotProfits

A man who collapsed on the street in #Aberdeen after a #seizure was offered a “remote consultation” instead of an #ambulance

Martin Logan’s son Gregor, 23, suffered bilateral dislocations of both shoulders and hit his head when he fell.

He had a #tonic-clonic seizure and #collapsed and a passer-by called #999 in the hopes of getting an ambulance.

https://www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdeen-news/man-who-collapsed-aberdeen-street-10450651

#ToxicTories #ToxicLabour #SaveOurNHS #NHS #Healthcare #PeopleNotProfits

The #kindness of strangers: as I was #sobbing in a rack of #bras, a #grandmotherly shop assistant soothed me

Around the corner came a petite, grandmotherly #shop assistant. She put down everything she was holding, walked over and asked me if I was OK.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/aug/11/the-kindness-of-strangers-sobbing-in-a-rack-of-bras-a-grandmotherly-shop-assistant-soothed-me

#KindnessOfStrangers #Cooperation #PeopleNotProfits #SocialismSpirit #socialism #Humanism #humans

Angela #Rayner: Hands off our allotments

#ToxicLabour

We call on you to stop any further #sell-offs of our precious #allotments and to reverse any sales that can be reversed.

Listen to local people.

Once allotments have been sold off, they are lost forever.

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/hands-off-our-allotments

#Labour #gardening #food #DemocracyNOW #PeopleNotProfits #bastards

Inside story #PrivateSector feasting on #Scotland's #nationalised #trains

The notion Scotland’s #railways are fully nationalised is a mirage

#Scottish Government taken over ScotRail, but the trains are leased from private sector at eye-watering cost

An obscene 25% of every ticket sold goes to private companies leasing rolling stock

#ScotRail needs to replace 69 trains

Abandoning the leasing system would save £362 million

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25326799.inside-story-firms-feasting-scotlands-nationalised-trains/

#PeopleNotProfits #Privatisation

#England can learn from #Scotland's population #health plan

The framework is important guiding light over next 10 years in recognising what determines the Scottish population’s health and wellbeing is more than health care: that sectors and approaches need to work together to improve #health (working well in their own silos is not enough), and that living a good life matters as well as length of life

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25318069.england-can-learn-scotlands-population-health-plan-says-think/

#PeopleNotProfits #NHS #SaveOurNHS #PrivatisationFail #LabourFail

Scottish university agreed to monitor students for arms company

Extremely disappointing #Heriot-Watt University doesn’t respect, prioritise #students over corporations

The Uni will monitor student #chat groups and #discussion #forums for talk of any planned #protest, monitoring #CCTV for signs of #groups #gathering, and having an “enhanced” physical presence on the day to “help safeguard the #Raytheon employees attending.”

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25308679.edinburgh-university-agreed-monitor-students-arms-company/

#privacy #spying #PeopleNotProfits #Scotland

No #PFI in Neighbourhood Health Services

We demand no “Public Private Partnership” (PFI) to finance Neighbourhood Health Centres

PFI's led to NHS paying up to 27x over for hospitals. Some #NHS Trusts STILL wasting 13% of their budgets on old PFI deals

Even the #Conservative government said ‘goodbye to PFI’ because it is bad value for money.

https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-new-pfi-in-neighbourhood-health-services

#SaveOurNHS #LabourLies #Labour #PeopleNotProfits #NotLabour

Living in the shadow: #fear of #America policies

To #UK readers

Debates about #NHS & social programmes aren’t trivial

I’ve seen what happens when #privatisation & #political #cruelty masquerade as #reform (no pun). Fight for your public programmes

- Cherish your NHS
- Protect disability rights

Once they are gone, people most dependent on them don’t just fall through the cracks they disappear

https://bylines.scot/politics/world-politics/living-in-the-shadow-fear-of-america-policies/

#Elite #DemocracyNOW #PeopleNotProfits

I’ve voiced #ScotRail trains for 20 years. No one told me AI was replacing me

THE woman who has been the voice of ScotRail trains for 20 years only learned she was being replaced after a friend heard the new #synthetic #voice onboard.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25204424.voice-scotrail-20-years-replaced-ai/

#unemployment #redundant #PeopleNotProfits #AI #VoiceOver #trains #railway #Scotland #transport #greed #CorporateGreed

Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services

#UK is the 6th largest economy in world. But huge amount of wealth is held by very small proportion of the population

Average wealth of top 10 richest people UK is now £21 billion, up nearly 50% in 5 years

If you earn £3600 every hour, it would take you over 665 years to save this amount

2% #wealth #tax on assets over £10 million could raise up to £24 billion/yr - just 20k of wealthiest

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/tax-the-super-rich-to-stop-cuts-to-public-services-1

#PeopleNotProfits #WealthTax

Why Is Cancer Drug Revlimid So Expensive?

When I was diagnosed with #cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of #Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone.

I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me.

https://www.propublica.org/article/revlimid-price-cancer-celgene-drugs-fda-multiple-myeloma

#PeopleNotProfits #capitalism #greed #medical #HealthCare #HumanRights #SaveOurNHS #medication

England GPs will be able to claim £20 per patient for seeking specialist advice

GPs will be paid £20 each time they decide not to send a patient to hospital under a government scheme

GPs will be able to claim money if they instead seek advice from a #hospital doctor or specialist before a decision is taken about referring #patients for tests & treatment in out-of-hospital setting

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/17/gps-in-england-will-be-able-to-claim-20-for-every-time-patient-is-not-sent-to-hospital

#SaveOurNHS #PeopleNotProfits #Healthcare

Key lessons of Covid are being forgotten UK scientists warn

The government promised to learn from the #pandemic but appears to be suffering from #Covid amnesia, forgetting devastating cost of an underfunded #health service & public services cut to the bone

There's no evidence the health service would be any better prepared today should another #lethal #virus appear in the near future, scientists said.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/23/key-lessons-of-covid-are-being-forgotten-uk-scientists-warn

#NHS #SaveOurNHS #PrivatisationFail #PeopleNotProfits #HealthCare

Expert weighs in on Streeting’s mental health ‘overdiagnosis’ claims

Wes #Streeting’s claim there is an overdiagnosis of mental #health conditions is a “distraction” from the “chronic #underfunding” of #MentalHealth services, a psychiatry expert has said.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25014344.expert-weighs-streetings-mental-health-overdiagnosis-claims/

#LabourLies #ToryLies #NHS #PeopleNotProfits