Badge of honour? More like a joke
On 30 November Nicola Sturgeon announced that all health and social care staff in Scotland will be receiving a £500 pound bonus. The bonus is a ‘thank you’ from the Scottish government and the people […]
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Christmas Appeal: Please give generously to help save our NHS
The NHS is currently facing its largest existential threat in its history. Now more than ever, Keep Our NHS Public needs your help to help save it. Please take a moment to read our urgent […]
How the Government spent £12 billion and still lost control of the virus
Keep Our NHS Public’s Jacky Davis, author of NHS for Sale: Myths, Lies and Deception finds that Channel 4’s recent Dispatches programme, Lockdown Chaos is right – the Government’s chaotic handling of the crisis has caused unnecessary […]
What do the US election results mean for a US-UK trade deal?
It’s early days to see how a Biden victory will affect a UK-US trade deal. What we do know is that the corporate interests that shaped the US-UK trade deal under Trump will not magically […]
Cleaners at Great Ormond Street Hospital are ready to strike for equality
Cleaners at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) have had enough of being outsourced and are demanding to be made direct employees of the NHS. They have long known that their work is essential to the […]
NHS car parking charges are a scandal
During the first wave of the pandemic, the Government put car parking charges for NHS staff on hold. However, they are planning to reinstate charges despite the second wave being upon us and many trusts […]
Why it is crucial that MPs vote for amendments to the Trade Bill: Parliamentary scrutiny and NHS protection
“We were absolutely gobsmacked” – the words of Prof Boland whose research has just highlighted that bottle fed babies are consuming in the order of a million microplastic particles per day. Why was this such […]
Failure to consider maternity affects midwives too
This open letter was written by student midwife Daisy Owens. I feel completely let down by the current situation. This is an experience no one could prepare for and the handling will never be perfect. […]
Report: Liverpool Hospital bears the brunt of 2nd Wave
Liverpool Hospital has been at the heart of the second COVID wave as infection rates have been soaring at alarming rates since the start of September reports frontline medic, Dr Rory Hicks At the Royal […]
National lockdown – for pity’s sake use it to get ‘test and trace’ working
On the 31st October 2020, the prime minster announced that England would once again come under a national lockdown for coronavirus five and half weeks after this was first recommended by the government’s own Special […]