A press release from the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency (ALT) calls for a radical tightening of the system that monitors the revolving door between Westminster, Whitehall and business, following revelations about former health minister Lord Warner’s extensive involvement with the medical industry.

Over the past decade, the private sector has been utilised to step up attacks on the welfare state and to profit from providing services. The Welfare Reform Act is one such example of Labour’s neoliberal tendencies argues Robert Stevens.

What more can the government shut down, asks George Monbiot. Oh yes, doctors’ surgeries.

With little public support for private healthcare, the proponents of marketisation are finding new ways to undermine the NHS. Stewart Player and Colin Leys investigate

Extended opening hours will transfer resources away from those in most need, and allow private companies to fill the gaps, writes George Monbiot.

Karen Reissmann describes the reasons behind her dismissal as a community nurse, and the resulting campaign to have her reinstated by Manchester health workers.

It beggars belief that US health privateers straight out of Michael Moore’s Sicko are being lined up to run core NHS services, writes Seumas Milne.

Michael Moore’s film hails the NHS and condemns US healthcare. But behind the scenes, writes Allyson Pollock, the UK government has already started adopting the American model of health provision.