Ill Fares The Land: the Big NHS Sell-off
Keep Our NHS Public will fight the selling of NHS land for private profit, use and rent unless the land sold really has no further public use. The government’s plans to sell off NHS land […]
Month: August 2017
Hawking backs NHS – destroys Hunt’s posturing
[updated 30 August 2017] Successful ‘Talk NHS’ debate: Hawking follows up with stinging demolition of Hunt’s policies and practice Professor Stephen Hawking gave a wonderful speech at the Royal Society of Medicine Saturday 19 August. [Photo: […]
Audit Office asked to investigate NHS Professionals sale
Help us stop the sell-off of NHS Professionals We Own It is leading a campaign to halt Jeremy Hunt’s shameful decision to sell off NHS Professionals (NHSP). Get your MP involved in helping us – see […]
Press Summary: 21 August
17 August NHS cuts stripping basic medicines from the poor Polly Toynbee’s piece on increasing number of drugs being taken ‘off list’ so people have to pay for them themselves. Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/17/nhs-cuts-basic-medicines-poor-gps-withdraw-service [25+ more […]
Press Summary: 16 August
9 August Tories double NHS sell-off The legacy of Naylor – done on the quiet. Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-hospital-land-secret-sale-tories-privatisation-sell-off-theresa-may-labour-warning-medical-sites-a7885071.html [9+ more stories]
‘NHS in Crisis: Fighting Back to Win’ – London Conference 4 November
Health Campaigns Together organised the biggest-ever demonstration in defence of the NHS in London on March 4 in collaboration with KONP, Peoples Assembly and with backing from a dozen unions. Now Health Campaigns Together is building for […]
Press Summary: 8 August 2017
31 July Relationship between councils and NHS cracking under strain Grim summary of what the cuts and over-bearing ministerial tramplings are doing to what is supposed to be a core relationship between co-operating parties (see […]
IVF becomes a postcode lottery
Many news outlets (including The Guardian and the BBC) have reported that thirteen areas of the UK have “restricted or completely halted” IVF treatment for those struggling to conceive. Public anger has arisen about the […]
Professor Hawking is keynote speaker at Talk NHS event, RSM
Professor Stephen Hawking will give the keynote speech at a public debate on the past, present and future of the NHS hosted by ‘Discourse’ and the Royal Society of Medicine on Saturday 19th August. The debate […]
KONP new briefing to MPs and Councillors
NHS crisis: Into the Red Zone Keep Our NHS Public has produced a briefing paper for MPs, councillors and health campaigners in England, on the crisis facing the NHS in the period immediately following the June […]