KONP Month of Action February 2025
CRISIS IN THE NHS – WE DEMAND ACTION The winter NHS winter crisis is critical.KONP supporters have been out on the streets asking shoppers and passers-by what they feel about the NHS. The answer is […]
Articles by Keep Our NHS Public
Starmer wrong to think privatisation best prescription for ailing NHS
John Puntis, Co Chair of Keep Our NHS Public analyses Keir Starmer’s plan for the NHS announced on 6 January 2025 ▪︎Crisis in acute care ignored▪︎Elective Care – embracing privatisation▪︎Plan disatrously enhances and entrenches role […]
Waiting list policy reset makes things worse
This article by John Lister is reproduced with kind permission of The Lowdown.John Lister is an academic and writer with a long history of campaigning for the NHS. He is one of the founder members […]
Labour’s timid plans for a National Care Service – 2028 is too late!
Labour’s recent ‘big announcement’ on social care is the setting up of an independent commission (lead by Dame Louise Casey) which will produce an interim report in 2026 and a final report in 2028. While […]
Five things you should know about the new Data (Use and Access) Bill
Article from KONP Data Working group The Labour government has been quick to introduce new draft legislation, the Data (Use and Access) Bill (DUA), which aims to make data, including our personal health data, widely […]
Matt Hancock shows no shame at Covid-19 Inquiry
Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock has appeared over 2 days in front of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, which is now in its third module – ‘Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare systems in the 4 […]
Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk – Unmet Needs Report
Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk – Unmet Needs Report The Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk has released a report detailing the ongoing challenges and unmet […]
The budget – not nearly as generous as it might seem
The headlines figures in the recent budget allocated to the NHS were an additional £22.6bn over the next two years for day-to-day spending, and a further £3.1bn capital over the same period. John Puntis, Keep […]
The (not a) doctor will see you now. Is there a non-doctor problem in NE London?
By Carol Saunders (Tower Hamlets KONP), on behalf of NE London Save Our NHSSeptember 2024 NE London Save Our NHS (NELSON) 1 – which brings together four groups affiliated with Keep Our NHS Public – […]
Operose GP contracts terminated in North Central London
Haringey Keep Our NHS Public4 September 2024 Background In 2021, the North Central London Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) gave permission for eight GP contracts to pass from AT Medics to Operose Health, the UK operation […]