Government passes Health and Care Bill: KONP Statement
An Act of denial that endangers the NHS The Health and Care Bill is now on its way to getting Royal Assent as all objections and opposition has been brushed aside. The Government has got […]
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The ‘SOS NHS’ demands are still urgent and relevant
The SOS NHS demands: The ‘SOS NHS’ demands were designed to put pressure on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to do something in his spring statement that would go some way to ameliorate the current crisis in […]
Delivery Plan turns NHS into a cash cow
While NHS resources are facing a renewed and tightening financial squeeze in Rishi Sunak’s newly-imposed austerity, the limited funds available are more likely than ever to be diverted to paying for services in private hospitals […]
The NHS isn’t failing; it’s being failed: A doctor’s take on the latest NHS public satisfaction survey
Public satisfaction with the NHS has plummeted, as anyone trying to book a GP appointment (including me) will tell you. A survey into public satisfaction with the NHS released yesterday shows it is at its lowest level […]
SOS NHS tells Rishi Sunak: Fund our NHS
Last Tuesday 22nd March, NHS staff and health campaigners from the alliance SOS NHS (the largest coalition yet formed in defence of the NHS made up of over 50 campaign groups, trade unions, health and care staff, social movements and […]
Kendal and South Lakes Keep Our NHS Public: A fantastic achievement, but our campaigning isn’t over
Keep Our NHS Public member Paul Casson explains how campaigners are successfully fighting to keep their local hospital open in the Southern Lake District. The threat of hospital closure is a familiar one to the […]
Five reasons to be concerned about what’s happening to our health data
It’s been estimated that, in monetary terms, the information that the NHS holds on its patients has a market value of several billion pounds per annum. Its other value is of course for academic research […]
This rushed-through Health and Care Bill is a threat to a truly universal NHS
In an emergency, all of us expect to go to A&E and be seen, no matter who we are or where we’re from. In law, Clinical Commissioning Groups must ensure that emergency care is provided […]
SOS NHS protests send clear message to Government on NHS spending
On Saturday, over 85 protests happened up and down the country demanding emergency funding for the NHS, proper pay for health, care and support workers and a fully public NHS. In the current political climate […]
Condition critical in Cornwall – the effect of long-term under-funding in a rural county where demands on the NHS and Social Care are high
Last month a woman in Penzance was forced to wait all night for an emergency ambulance for her husband with suspected stroke, only to be told in the morning that she must drive him the […]