Newsletter – August 2018
National KONP and NHS News Hunt replaced by Hancock as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care May’s panicked cabinet reshuffle on 9 July has finally rid our NHS of Jeremy Hunt who, after […]
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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 […]
Hunt may have gone, but there’s little cause for celebration
Following a dramatic day in Westminster on Monday Jeremy Hunt is no longer Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. Hunt, the destroyer of workforce morale, the privatiser, the taker of beds, the one […]
Newsletter – July 2018
Happy 70th Birthday to Our NHS National KONP and NHS News NHS at 70: London Demonstration Well done everyone!! Thank you to everyone who joined us in Central London on the 30th June to celebrate […]
Serious questions surround increased NHS funding
Joint press release by Keep Our NHS Public, Health Campaigns Together and The People’s Assembly Against Austerity 17 June 2018 Serious questions surround increased NHS funding – an inadequate response for cash-starved service Theresa May […]
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). […]
Newsletter – June 2018
National KONP and NHS news NHS at 70: Free, for all, forever The People’s Assembly, Health Campaigns Together, Trades Union Congress, Unison, Unite, GMB, British Medical Association, Royal College of Nursing, Royal College of Midwives, […]
NHS England & NHS Improvement whistling in unison with Government
NHS England and NHS Improvement appear to be whistling in the dark as they ignore the warnings from professional bodies and NHS Providers that the levels of NHS underfunding and staff shortages are increasingly dangerous. […]
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 […]