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 […]
This Mental Health Awareness Week Keep Our NHS Public, Mental Health – Time for Action and Health Campaigns Together are launching the Mental Health Crisis Summit. Chronic underfunding has pushed mental health services to the brink, and […]
While working in NHS mental health is important and rewarding, in a climate of NHS cuts, privatisation and austerity, it’s an uphill battle to provide the care so urgently needed writes Dr Mona Kamal Despite […]
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 […]
“The whole agitation has a nasty taste. Instead of rejoicing at the opportunity to practise a civilised principle, Conservatives have tried to exploit the most disreputable emotions in this among many other attempts to discredit […]
Is the winter crisis a new phenomenon? A winter crisis in the NHS may not be an entirely new phenomenon, but the severity of it is. 2012-13 saw the first reports of a winter crisis, […]
Keep Our NHS Public welcomes the damning report on mental health from the TUC on the devastating effects of Conservative Party austerity policies over the last nine years, which has seen three quarters of people […]
Chancellor Philip Hammond’s latest budget on 29 October was predictably disappointing for our NHS, with no new funding promised. Despite claims from Hammond that the NHS was, ‘A precious institution that [had] been nurtured for most […]
Mark Thomas’ new one man show on the NHS at 70 at London’s Arcola Theatre, is based on a series of interviews with leading experts and activists. Mark explores our NHS to see where we […]
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 […]