2018 – a year of non-stop campaigning
As we take a look back at KONP’s campaigning work in 2018 – alongside Health Campaigns Together and our allies – it is impressive and daunting to see just how much work has been required […]
Mental Health
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]