Newsletter – May 2018
National KONP and NHS news NHS at 70: Free, for all, forever On Saturday 30 June people will be taking to the streets to demonstrate and celebrate the NHS’ 70th year. There will be a […]
Privatisation
Push Doctor adverts condemned by the advertising watchdog
In August 2017 we publicised how Push Doctor was making false claims in its advertising drive. The ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) has now banned some Push Doctor ads for implying that services were provided by the NHS, and therefore not making […]
How Come We Didn’t Know? and The Private Finance Initiative: how come we’re still paying for this?
Marion Macalpine, a member of Hackney Keep Our NHS Public, has updated her exhibition How Come We Didn’t Know?. The photographic exhibition about the corporate take over of the NHS has been touring the country […]
Newsletter – April 2018
National KONP and NHS News Loss of Stephen Hawking The NHS lost a wonderful ambassador on the 14th March when Professor Stephen Hawking died. Professor Hawking’s intellect and insight shaped modern cosmology and he inspired […]
No to ‘subsidiary companies’ in the NHS!
Legal or not – ‘SubCos’ are No-Gos! Keep NHS staff in the NHS By Martin Blanchard What are SubCos? A ‘SubCo’ – as subsidiary companies are sometimes called – is an independent company wholly owned […]
Newsletter – March 2018
National KONP & NHS News 3rd February Regional & National Demonstrations Photo: Luke Dray Thank you to all of you who made up a part of the 60,000-strong crowd who marched on Downing Street on […]
Review of 2017: NHS winter crisis endures the year long – Fightback with us
January 2017: Winter – crisis of Government policy At the start of 2017, nothing highlighted more clearly the level of neglect shown by this government towards the NHS, and the risks to safety they have […]
Hawking joins Judicial Review v Jeremy Hunt
Latest news in battle against ‘Accountable Care’ threat to NHS – Urgent: Help fund Round 2 Professor Stephen Hawking has joined Dr Colin Hutchinson, Professor Allyson Pollock (co -author of the NHS Reinstatement Bill), Professor […]
Care UK asks NHS GPs to peddle Care UK’s private operations
Care UK, a private business holding many NHS health and social care contracts, has sent hundreds of GPs a list of prices – from minor procedures to major elective surgery. They ‘suggest’ that NHS GPs […]
Virgin threats net £2m from NHS in Surrey
Health & Social Care Act has authorised contract bullying Virgin has taken a £2 million pay-off – at least – from six South West and North West Surrey Clinical Commissioning Groups – money that many […]