Last month, Just Treatment launched our “Big conversations” campaign where we began speaking to someone in every constituency in the UK about their experience of Coronavirus and the NHS. Read about her experience with COVID-19, her thoughts on the future of the NHS and why we need a New Deal for the NHS.
Read MoreFor me, a lot of questions about our response to this virus need answering, and a lot should have been done differently! Why did lockdown start so late? Why was the narrative of herd immunity used by England’s Chief Scientific Adviser? Why have key staff not been given adequate Protective Equipment? Why has it taken so long to accept offers from businesses in the UK offering PPE? Why is it only now that the UK is starting to think about tracking and tracing? Why has our approach been so different to other countries?
Read MoreCommenting on AstraZeneca having announced they are to benefit from a further $750m as an "Advanced Market Commitment" for the supply of a coronavirus vaccine candidate announced as part of a deal to provide access in low and middle income countries
Read MoreJust Treatment has launched a campaign to build a New Deal for the NHS. Read this post to find out about the plan.
Read MoreToday, Boris Johnson is hosting a Global Coronavirus Vaccine Summit to generate funds to support the work of GAVI. Just Treatment is warning the UK approach to developing a vaccine risks undermining the global coronavirus response by handing too much power and money to the pharmaceutical industry.
Read MoreThe British government has announced that £84m of funding was going towards Oxford University and AstraZeneca to develop a COVID19 vaccine. The government’s approach is again, exposing the pitfalls of the medical research and development system.
Read MoreCOVID19 has disproportianately impacted the BME community in England. Just Treatment organiser, Maryam Asaria interviews Dr Ameen Kamlana to find out why.
Read MoreIf you missed it - don’t panic! Now you can play back our organising call with the US comedian Rob Delaney.
Read MoreLast year Izzie played her part in ending a long campaign to gain access to a drug called Orkambi. Now in 2020 she writes about another access crisis we’re all facing with the vaccine for COVID-19.
Read MoreJust Treatment’s work on big pharma is expanding. We’re going to organise patients from across the NHS who have been negatively impacted by cuts and privatisation.
Read MoreCOVID19 is threatening our health and our NHS. We’re changing our strategy to respond - so patients can help win a more equitable pandemic response.
Read MoreThe UK government says the price the NHS pays for drugs will not be on the negotiating table. But the devil will be in the detail.
Read MoreAt $2.1m, Zolgensma is the most expensive drug in the world. For many babies with spinal muscular atrophy, the only chance of treatment with this life-saving drug is a lottery where some will be lucky, but others won’t.
Read MoreLet’s pin down our candidates on the questions that matter.
Read MoreWatch our video to find out how we won the campaign for cystic fibrosis drug Orkambi - and why we won’t rest until we have a system that delivers for all patients.
Read MoreAfter years of campaigning and stalled negotiations between the drug company Vertex and NHS, a group of patients and their families decided to take a different strategic route to make cystic fibrosis drug Orkambi available on the NHS.
Read MoreChristina, one of the parents we've been organising alongside for a Plan B on Orkambi, describes what today means to her and countless other families.
Read MoreAfter a four-year long fight campaigners and patient activists welcome the news this morning that the cystic fibrosis drugs, Orkambi and Symkevi will be made available under the NHS to patients in England
Read MoreLobbying your MP isn’t always easy - especially for a boater with no post-code! But my experience shows it’s worth persevering, even when the odds are against you.
Read MorePrivate wealth should never come in the way of public health.
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