Newsletter – February 2019
National KONP and NHS News Keep Our NHS Public says no to NHS England’s Long Term Plan On the chilly morning of Thursday 31st January, KONP held a rally to demonstrate against the government’s and […]
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NHS Long Term Plan – unfunded, undemocratic, unfair, unsafe
Long Term Plan threatens delivery of a remote, centralised NHS Join us to protest against the Unfunded, undemocratic, unfair, unsafe plan, please share the Facebook event here. Leaflet: NHS Long Term Plan: top-down disruption for the […]
‘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, […]
We should welcome refugees, not close the door in fear and prejudice
Keep Our NHS Public is committed to ending the Government’s ‘hostile environment’ policy and anti-immigrant scapegoating for the crisis in our NHS. This is why refugee solidarity is an important part of many of our […]
2018 – January to December roundup
Alongside our post ‘2018 – a year of non-stop campaigning’ here is a month-by-month review of our campaigning efforts and the many positives we achieved. JANUARY The year started with one of the worst NHS […]
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 […]
New ‘Long Term Plan’ spells danger for the NHS
Theresa May’s launch of the NHS Long Term Plan this morning 7 January should fool no-one in Liverpool or anywhere else. Theresa May was welcomed to Liverpool by Merseyside KONP, Save Liverpool Women’s Hospital campaign […]
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, […]
Ministers refuse to rule out more mass operation cancellations or ringfence the £240m funding for social care
The Department of Health and Social Care will not ringfence £240m social care funding, nor guarantee mass surgical cancellations will not happen again this winter. At a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts yesterday […]
Plan to end Huddersfield A&E gets green light – campaigners see red
This week it was announced that the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has approved £196.5 million of capital funding for reconfiguration plans of hospital and community services in Huddersfield. On the […]