Centene will see you now
How a US corporation became the biggest provider of primary care in the UK.Every day at Operose Health at 11am. Sharp. The staff are instructed to take a 10 minute “pause”. In other words, what […]
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US health insurers are coming for the NHS
This article was written by Keep Our NHS Public member Dr Jackie Applebee, and was originally published in Tribune magazine. We are reproducing it with permission. The latest move by US health insurance giant Centene […]
NHS and social care ignored in budget
Rishi Sunak’s budget said next to nothing about the NHS, and nothing about social care: and that’s a kick in the teeth for NHS England and all of the organisations that have pressed hard for […]
Centene: Undemocratic takeover of GP services
This is Trowbridge surgery in Hackney Wick. It is one of 11 GP surgeries in NE London and 49 across London that have just been sold to Operose, a subsidiary of Centene, which is a […]
2021 NHS White Paper: government seizes on the pandemic as an opportunity
In the UK, a White Paper is the way government presents policy preferences before it introduces legislation. It is also a way of testing public opinion on controversial policy issues. The recent White Paper ‘Integration […]
The Pandemic and Privatisation – an online conference
Over 500 people have so far signed up for the conference, which has been called by Health Campaigns Together, working in partnership with Keep Our NHS Public, the health unions UNISON, Unite and GMB, the […]
Government used crisis to increase privatisation – NHS white paper will endorse
Boris Johnson seeks to ‘take back control of the NHS’ – full scale alert The leaked draft of the forthcoming government white paper on the NHS has been interpreted, notably by the Times and Hugh […]
Keep Our NHS Public is launching a People’s Covid Inquiry
With more than 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 Keep Our NHS Public believes the public deserves to know how and why this has happened. That is why we are launching the People’s Covid Inquiry, along with […]
Bristol Protect Our NHS protests Tory corruption, cronyism and privatisation
Keep Our NHS Public members from Protect Our NHS staged a protest outside the Weston Super Mare constituency office of John Penrose, husband of Dido Harding, in the first week of January.Protestors unveiled a banner […]
Dangerous NHS restructuring to go ahead despite Covid
It has never been clearer than during this pandemic just how important the NHS is to the health and safety of the public. Yet the NHS was left to face the Covid pandemic already severely […]