Junior doctors strike – it’s not just about pay
John Puntis is a retired consultant paediatrician and is Co-Chair of Keep Our NHS Public It’s not just about pay There are many reasons for junior doctors to be disaffected besides the 35% loss of […]
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The crisis in General Practice is unsustainable for everyone
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 […]
Hancock must apply the brakes – technology in the NHS needs careful consideration
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 […]
Today’s figures from NHS England show the worst waiting times since records began
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 […]
‘We were right’ say Junior Doctors as unsafe contract laid bare.
Two years after the first all out doctors’ strike in British history the effects of this government-imposed contract have been published. The first figures since then, revealed by the Health Service Journal earlier this week, […]
Newsletter – September 2018
National KONP and NHS News Decision to strike Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba from the medical register overturned On Monday 13 August, after a battle that has lasted nearly three years, the court of appeal ruled that […]
Medic or not, Dr Bawa-Garba’s case affects us all
On Monday 13 August, after a battle that has lasted nearly three years, the court of appeal ruled that the decision to strike Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba from the medical register should be overturned. Furthermore, the […]
Apps and Our NHS – A Question of Priorities
From today, let this be clear: tech transformation is coming. The opportunities of new technology, done right across the whole of health and social care, are vast. Let’s work together to seize them. Matt Hancock […]
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). […]
The NHS has a recruitment crisis – heightened by the ‘hostile environment’
Disastrous NHS workforce strategy meets racism and discrimination Our NHS is suffering a recruitment and retention crisis caused by the effects of sustained and significant underfunding, a failed workforce strategy (doctor and nurse training posts […]