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The public has been served admirably by our excellent NHS through difficult times. But now the NHS is hanging on by its finger-tips.

Since 2010 the NHS has suffered its worst funding reduction ever, and it is expected the shortfall will rise to £26 billion by the end of 2020/21. Waiting lists are rising and already there have been an estimated 120,000 excess deaths as a result of these cuts since 2010.

Further information

Our resource cabinet has facts, figures and campaigning resources about NHS funding.

LABOUR’S AUSTERITY BUDGET: OUR RESPONSE

28 March 2025 Keep Our NHS Public 1

Other than repeated claims to be ‘on the side of working people’ Rachel Reeve’s Spring Budget statement sounded more like a Conservative chancellor’s speech than a Labour Party committed to ‘ending the status quo’. From […]

STARMER’S LABOUR PARTY ABANDONS DISABLED PEOPLE

21 March 2025 Keep Our NHS Public 3

Keep Our NHS Public is shocked and outraged by the government’s plan to cut disability benefits by up to £5bn. These cuts could affect more than a million disabled people across the UK. Disabled people […]

NHS England abolished as Starmer and Streeting take ‘control’

14 March 2025 Keep Our NHS Public 9

Only days after Wes Streeting announced there would be massive cuts in NHS England’s (NHSE) workforce – halved from 13,000 to 6,500 to avoid ‘duplication’ of work by officials at the Department of Health and Social Care […]

Review: NHS Under Siege

2 August 2022 Keep Our NHS Public 1

John Lister, Jacky Davis (eds.). The Merlin Press Limited, Dagenham, 2022 www.merlinpress.co.uk This book should be read by anyone interested in both defending and rebuilding the NHS and in addressing health inequity as a matter […]

Violence against GPs has doubled

2 June 2022 Keep Our NHS Public 0

Violent incidents at GP surgeries have doubled in the last 5 years. Recently, a patient at my surgery stood in the waiting room, shouting at reception staff while waving their facemask around – their aerosols […]