Newsletter – July / August 2017
KONP NEWS Website overhaul With an inexpressible amount of thanks to our IT volunteer, Geoff, it’s our pleasure to announce that our new and improved national website is now up and running. Tell us what […]
News
Press Summary: 25 July 2017
18 July What is being done to tackle the NHS workforce crisis? Warnings from NHS Employers’ chief exec Danny Mortimer. Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2017/jul/18/tackle-nhs-workforce-crisis-health-care-sectors [13+ more stories]
Site Maintenance and Upgrade
We are going to be making some big changes to the Keep Our NHS Public site over the coming weeks. Because of the nature of the work we are, unfortunately, going to have to take […]
Press Summary: 10 July
1 July Ken Loach addresses Oxford crowd Also features video of KONP Co-Chair addressing public meeting. Oxford Times http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/NEWS/15384706.World_renowned_film_director_warns_NHS_is__teetering_on_the_edge_of_survival__at_Oxford_protest/ [20 more stories]
Press Summary: 20 June
12 June Why we need to campaign to save our NHS in Bolton(local) Bolton News. Cites national release sent out after election result. http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/comment/15341643.We_have_to_fight_to_save_our_NHS_or_we_could_lose_it/ [13 more stories]
Press release: NHS must be top priority
[Friday 9 June 2017] Keep Our NHS Public reacted to the news of a hung parliament by saying that the NHS must be a top priority in any new government.
Press Summary: 6 June
31 May Post Brexit bill threat for returning retirees Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/31/nhs-faces-500m-a-year-bill-post-brexit-for-returning-retirees-says-thinktank Something of a distraction given the amounts at stake as a percentage of NHS spend (under 1%). [11 more stories]
Press release: the bloody NHS blueprint if the Tories get in
[6 June 2017] Keep Our NHS Public (KONP) is appealing to everyone not to vote Conservative because if a Conservative government is returned to power it will mean widespread destruction of the NHS [1] that […]
Letter from an NHS staff member: Do NOT vote Tory on Thursday
An open letter from an NHS staff member spells out in impassioned terms exactly what a Tory government would mean for the NHS – and pleads with people to make the right choice on Thursday. […]