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Articles by Samantha Wathen

Privatisation of the NHS

Privatisation is Already Killing the NHS

12th November 2019 Samantha Wathen 3

The NHS isn’t under threat of privatisation, it’s already being privatised – with billions of pounds of contracts sold off every year. Another Tory government could be its final straw.Creeping privatisation is a threat to […]

An increase in suicide is this government’s shocking legacy

9th September 2019 Samantha Wathen 0

Keep Our NHS Public are committed to raising awareness of cuts to mental health services which have tragic consequences. To this end our impending Mental Health Crisis Summit in London on 28th September ran in […]

KONP calls for taking hospital catering back in-house

5th July 2019 Samantha Wathen 2

The Good Food Chain, the company at the heart of the listeria-contaminated sandwich scandal that caused the death of patients, has gone into liquidation. But the story does not end here. They were only a […]

Privatisation of the NHS

Government response provides no clear guarantees over the NHS and future trade deals

18th June 2019 Samantha Wathen 0

Yesterday the department of international trade responded to a petition entitled ‘Don’t put our NHS up for negotiation – Please introduce concrete safeguards that will make sure our NHS is kept out of any future […]

The crisis in General Practice is unsustainable for everyone

3rd June 2019 Samantha Wathen 0

The headlines continue to tell the story of the precipitous decline in General Practice – increasing rates of practice closures, falling GP numbers and lengthening waits for appointments. And behind the figures is something less […]

Circle in court action against the NHS to protect their profits – Nottingham KONP fights on

3rd May 2019 Samantha Wathen 2

Nottingham Keep Our NHS Public have been campaigning against Circle’s takeover of their hospital services for some time. Now though, there has been a significant development prompting the HSJ to write an article about how […]

Hancock must apply the brakes – technology in the NHS needs careful consideration

2nd May 2019 Samantha Wathen 0

Former Culture secretary Matt Hancock is fundamentally in the wrong job. This Health Secretary pays precious little mind to the real and fundamental issues of understaffing and underfunding, the positive resolution of which would solve […]

Fining trusts for patient deaths robs others of better treatment

15th March 2019 Samantha Wathen 0

You would think that the prospect of losing a patient was motivation enough to encourage the most thorough diagnosis and treatment of a sick person. However, from April the government could now impose fines upon […]

Dissatisfied with the health service? Don’t blame the NHS, blame the government

12th March 2019 Samantha Wathen 0

Let’s get a few things straight. The NHS isn’t failing; it’s being failed, and being failed in a big way. The results of the latest annual British Social Attitudes survey of nearly 3000 people undertaken […]

Today’s figures from NHS England show the worst waiting times since records began

14th February 2019 Samantha Wathen 0

Figures from NHS England released today back up the concerns of staff on the frontline that conditions are deteriorating in emergency departments and trusts across the UK. The report shows that due to underfunding and […]

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