The winter crisis is one of this government’s own making
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, […]
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Keep Our NHS Public welcomes powerful TUC report on the Mental Health 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 […]
Budget 2018 – Plenty of spin but no more money for the NHS
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: Check Up NHS@70 at The Arcola Theatre
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 […]
‘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 […]
Hollow Mental Health Proposal from Government
Theresa May announcing a Suicide Prevention Minister to tackle the growing mental health problems that are a product of austerity is empty rhetoric says consultant psychiatrist Dr Mona Kamal, It would not be World Mental Health day without an announcement […]
Newsletter – October 2018
National KONP and NHS News NHSE Consultation on Integrated Care Providers NHS England is consulting on a new model of health and social care provision that could see multi-billion-pound contracts handed over to the private […]
A booking system for A&E? It’s called Accident and Emergency for a reason
Another winter crisis now seems inevitable and the 4-hour A&E target has already been scrapped by former health secretary Jeremy Hunt. The latest desperate (and yes madcap) idea from this government in place of proper […]
National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance ignored: NHS England rationing plan is not Nice at all
NHS England proposals to withdraw 17 NHS clinical procedures contradict existing guidance from NICE, the recognised authority advising clinicians on the current state of research evidence. “Clinicians should read NICE guidance for themselves rather than […]
Mental Health Provision Fails to Meet Needs
Arguably in no specialism are government attacks on the NHS more keenly felt than in mental health. Services have been cut, closed and downgraded, staff are leaving in droves due to unsafe and unfair working […]