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
Staff Nurse Danielle Tiplady meets an Iraqi nurse refugee, and argues healthcare should not respect borders, only the universal needs of patients. This article first appeared in The Nursing Times. Last weekend I went on a volunteering […]
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 […]