Hold on Edna! – a book review
Hold on Edna! is a highly entertaining autobiography for anyone who understands the true value of our NHS – as well as a must-read for those who do not. Aneira Thomas the first baby born […]
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Doreen Lawrence Review: Pandemic is exposing inequality and racism in UK
In many ways the NHS is a community of its own; a unity of 1.4 million devoted workers, composing of 202 nationalities. The diversity of our NHS is to be celebrated, instead, we find ourselves […]
Without sufficient staffing, Nightingale Hospitals are an expensive publicity stunt
It has been a long time since the NHS was properly staffed, since people went home on time, or had manageable workloads. It’s been several years since winters were workable. The months from October to […]
Trade deal day of action marked across UK
Keep Our NHS Public local groups took to the streets on Saturday 24 October 2020 to protest a future trade deal with the US that doesn’t protect the NHS. The demonstrations were done alongside a […]
Invest in care now!
Health Campaigns Together and Keep Our NHS Public, the two broadest-based campaigns in defence of the NHS in England, welcome the coordinated campaign in defence of health and social care services across Europe by the […]
Contact tracing app useless until test and trace working
Since the Covid-19 app was finally launched three weeks ago it has been beset by glitches, inaccuracies and low download rates.Not only has the app come out months after similar mobile phone apps in other […]
A second national lockdown is necessary – but not sufficient
There is no government plan to control Covid For several weeks, it has been clear that the UK is entering a second wave of Covid-19 infections. Across all relevant measures – estimated and confirmed current […]
Yet another mess with Serco’s fingerprints on it
Serco gets everywhere. Since 2009 it has been involved in providing pathology services to two big London hospital trusts. Pathology services are mostly out of the sight of patients and the public but absolutely central to […]
When will the government start to care about care homes?
A total of 15,487 residential care and nursing homes are registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and have around 410 000 residents. Almost half of newly admitted residents come from hospitals. With the UK […]
We must end the social care crisis
Social care in this country is broken. 26% fewer people are supported in 2020 than in 2010, and local authority spending on social care has fallen by 49% in real terms despite soaring population and […]