Just Treatment

29/05/2026

“Khan is right to block Palantir’s deal with the Met. Now let’s cancel their NHS contract.”

Hope Worsdale from Just Treatment, on why Palantir is no partner for the and why the government should trigger the break clause.

Read in full on LabourList ⬇️

It’s been a bad few months for US spy-tech company Palantir. Last week it was revealed that London Mayor Sadiq Khan had intervened to block…

28/05/2026

When Wes Streeting resigned as Health Secretary, his resignation letter claimed Labour had "delivered" on the NHS. But patients are still dying in ambulances and hospital corridors, staff are still burning out, and the companies profiting off our health service are still posting record profits.

Before he left, we sat in Streeting's office and handed him 10 demands for change. He committed to responding to them.

His successor, James Murray, now has the chance to chart a different course. We have written to him asking that he honours that commitment and serves patients and staff, not corporate interests.

Read our letter to the Health Secretary ⬇

28/05/2026

🚨 The NHS spent a record £241m last year paying private firms to read CT and MRI scans. Triple what it spent in 2018.

Hospitals are outsourcing because they're short of radiologists, and the government won't fund enough training posts. There are 11 applicants for every place.

86% of NHS radiology dept heads have serious concerns about the quality of these private reports, and staff often have to recheck the work. So we pay twice and patients still wait.

Fund the training instead!

27/05/2026

Every day in hospitals across the country, NHS patients are being treated - or forced to wait for treatment - in corridors, waiting rooms, queuing ambulances or even store cupboards. Corridor care poses huge risks to the health of patients, as well as the safety of NHS staff. Thousands of preventabl...

26/05/2026

🚨The government's consultation on banning under-16s from social media closes today. They aren’t asking the important questions about how we can make social media safe for everyone. So we've asked young people that question and now we’ve made sure the government can't ignore us…

20/05/2026

🚨 The US pharma deal is a crime against UK healthcare.
That's why we're launching a legal challenge, alongside Global Justice Now.

Signed by Starmer with Trump in December, this deal hands billions in NHS money to Big Pharma, undermines NICE, and was pushed through Parliament with no debate, no vote, and no published impact assessment.

Experts warn it could cost the NHS £64bn by 2036, with tens of thousands of excess deaths every year.

We can't take on the government and Big Pharma without you. Chip in to our legal fight to protect the NHS and stop this deal in its tracks: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-nhs-drug-price-powergrab/

18/05/2026

🚨BREAKING: We’re suing the government to protect the NHS!

The government's unlawful deal with Trump will push up NHS drug prices - so we're taking them to court.

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-nhs-drug-price-powergrab/

18/05/2026

We’re suing the government to protect the NHS!

We are challenging the government’s unlawful power grab over NHS drug price controls – and we need your help to take them to court.

Back in December, the UK government caved to relentless pressure from Donald Trump and the pharmaceutical industry and agreed to implement permanent, damaging changes to the safeguards that stop the NHS being ripped off by drug companies.

These changes will drive up the price the NHS has to pay for medicines. It will end the independence of the body ensuring we get value for money on drugs – politicising these life and death decisions for the first time. And experts believe the deal with the US could lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of NHS patients – more additional deaths than COVID – over the next ten years. All to inflate big pharma profits and please Donald Trump.

We believe that the legislation the government has used to change drug price controls is unlawful and undemocratic. Challenging it in court is a unique opportunity to stop our NHS being ripped off by big pharma.

This legal case is being brought by Just Treatment and Global Justice Now. We are two small non-profits who cannot afford to take the government to court by ourselves. So we are crowdfunding to raise the money needed to proceed with this vital legal challenge.

Help us place lives before profit - comment "NHS" to get the link in your DM.

14/05/2026

When we met Wes Streeting just two weeks ago, we urged him to do more to protect patients & the NHS.

To fund crumbling social care. To end deadly urgent care delays. To stop private healthcare & big pharma ripping off our NHS.

He claims Labour have "delivered" on the NHS.

Yet patients are still dying in ambulances & hospital corridors. Health workers are still burning out and leaving. All while the companies exploiting our health service rake in record profits.

Whoever comes next must chart a different course. NHS patients & staff need a Health Secretary who serves our interests, not corporate interests.

12/05/2026

For years, we have warned that bringing Palantir into the NHS will erode patient trust.

Now, we learn that Palantir staff have been given "unlimited" access to our identifiable health data.

Patients have never consented to this. Palantir needs to go.

Health service has given US tech firm ‘unlimited access’ to certain data to build integrated platform, according to reports