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 […]
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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 […]
Professor Wendy Savage wins the BMJ Healthcare Award
Keep Our NHS Public is proud to announce that Professor Wendy Savage has been given the prestigious award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to health and healthcare in the UK’ at a ceremony held by the British […]
Push Doctor implies private service is run by NHS doctors
[first posted 27 August 2017, updated with ASA verdict 20 April 2018] GPs and campaigners in London were shocked to see posters on the London Underground advertising Push Doctor – this is a private doctor […]
Albert Thompson to receive cancer treatment he needs
We wrote about Albert Thompson’s (not his real name) ordeal in our April Newsletter . Despite living in London for 44 years and paying 3 decades of taxes Thompson was told that unless he can […]