Newsletter – November 2018
oveoveeNational KONP and NHS News Scrap ICPs & Support the NHS Bill: Rally & Petition at Parliament & DoH Thank you to the over a hundred supporters who turned out on Friday 26 October to […]
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Scrap ICPs & Support the NHS Bill: Rally & Petition at Parliament & DoH
Today 100 NHS and anti-privatisation activists gathered in Westminster to demand that NHS England rule to scrap the proposed Integrated Care Provider contracts. Keep Our NHS Public were joined by campaigners from Health Campaigns Together, We […]
‘Accountable’ or ‘Integrated’ care organisations – change the name but it still spells unaccountable, disintegration of our NHS
We are all quite rightly concerned about the increasing privatisation and fragmentation of the NHS in England happening under our noses. It is an affront to a publicly funded system that private companies may swoop […]
Integrated Care Providers – What are they and how to oppose them
NHS England is consulting on the contract for a new model of health and social care provision that threatens the break-up of the NHS into units run by less accountable ‘Integrated Care Providers’ – or […]
ACO Judicial Review: political victories, legal setbacks – good news on costs
Important political wins and favourable costs ruling override disappointment of legal defeat in JR4NHS vs Department of Health and NHS England – ACO consultation launched 3rd August On 5th July, the High Court handed down its judgement […]
Select Committee report on Integrated Care and ACOs
PUBLICATION OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE COMMITTEE REPORT ON INTEGRATED CARE: ORGANISATIONS, PARTNERSHIPS AND SYSTEMS The Health and Social Care Committee (HSCC) has published its report on Integrated Care: organisations, partnerships and systems today. Keep […]
Jeremy Hunt’s Impact – Fault or Design?
Jeremy Hunt has now been Secretary of State for Health for almost five and a half years, the longest ever to serve in British history, overtaking fellow Conservative Norman Fowler (health secretary under Margaret Thatcher). […]
Update following Judicial Review 23/24 May challenging ACOs
‘The hearing is over – now we wait’ There was great support for the JR4NHS team outside the Courts on both days and also in Court 76 where the drama unfolded (see below for Twitter […]
Judicial Review 23/24 May challenging legality of introduction of ACOs
Keep Our NHS Public has supported JR4NHS from the word go and our members are participants in the legal challenge. KONP sees this judicial review taken by the JR4NHS team as an important legal milestone for […]
The NHS doesn’t require reform – it needs a revolution
Kailash Chand and Allyson Pollock (Reproduced with permission: first published in Political Quarterly 1st May 2018) On the 4th July, the National Health Service will celebrate its 70th birthday and there will be much fanfare and […]