Newsletter – November 2018
oveoveeNational KONP and NHS News Scrap ICPs & Support the NHS Bill: Rally & Petition at Parliament & DoH Thank you to the over a hundred supporters who turned out on Friday 26 October to […]
NHS Bill
Scrap ICPs & Support the NHS Bill: Rally & Petition at Parliament & DoH
Today 100 NHS and anti-privatisation activists gathered in Westminster to demand that NHS England rule to scrap the proposed Integrated Care Provider contracts. Keep Our NHS Public were joined by campaigners from Health Campaigns Together, We […]
‘Accountable’ or ‘Integrated’ care organisations – change the name but it still spells unaccountable, disintegration of our NHS
We are all quite rightly concerned about the increasing privatisation and fragmentation of the NHS in England happening under our noses. It is an affront to a publicly funded system that private companies may swoop […]
Labour commits to legislation to reinstate the NHS
As we approach the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the NHS, very many also had their eye on 11 July when Eleanor Smith, MP for Wolverhampton South West was due to present her NHS […]
The NHS doesn’t require reform – it needs a revolution
Kailash Chand and Allyson Pollock (Reproduced with permission: first published in Political Quarterly 1st May 2018) On the 4th July, the National Health Service will celebrate its 70th birthday and there will be much fanfare and […]
NO need for NHS Royal Commissions: let us restore Bevan’s principles
NHS cross party talks and Royal Commission The Labour Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth and the Greens are right to reject yet another call for a cross-party review of long-term funding for the NHS. It […]
Appeal to fund Judicial Review vs Jeremy Hunt and ACO imposition
Notice of intention to seek judicial review served on Hunt Co -author of the NHS Reinstatement Bill (with Peter Roderick) Professor Allyson Pollock, Dr Colin Hutchinson, Professor Sue Richards and Dr Graham Winyard, have written to […]
Historic moment as Labour Conference unanimously recommits to restoring an NHS for all
Momentous progress was made at the Labour Party Conference on Tuesday 26 September An excellent motion was passed including a robust call for a defence of the NHS in England now and a move to reinstate it […]
Labour Conference – get MPs to pledge support for #NHSTakeback
MPs are signing the #NHSTakeback pledges: ask yours now! Keep Our NHS Public and Health Campaigns Together, the umbrella alliance of independent organisations, are both supporting the #NHSTakeback initiative launched by We Own It. This […]
IVF becomes a postcode lottery
Many news outlets (including The Guardian and the BBC) have reported that thirteen areas of the UK have “restricted or completely halted” IVF treatment for those struggling to conceive. Public anger has arisen about the […]