Don’t Blow It! Kill the Health Bill hankies for MPs
We asked Jenny Shepherd of ‘Calderdale & Kirklees 999 Call of the NHS’ to tell us about the ‘Dont Blow It’ campaign aimed at putting pressure on MPs in marginal seats to vote again the […]
Stop privatisation of the NHS
The Health and Care Bill and what it means for the pay, terms and conditions of NHS staff
The new NHS bill in committee stage from September has been wrongly spun as a bill to limit privatisation and to promote integration. It does neither of these things but carries significant dangers for the […]
Operose Health takeover of GP surgery contracts: Next step judicial review
Campaigners are supporting a legal case against the takeover of NHS GP surgery contracts by Operose Health, a UK subsidiary of the Centene Corporation.Anjna Khuran is a patient at Hanley Primary Care Centre and Councillor […]
Statement on Health and Care Bill 2021-22 by Keep Our NHS Public
The Health and Care Bill will be launched this week, as Prime Minister Johnson overrules his new Health Secretary and Covid cases soar. Keep Our NHS Public (KONP) calls for widespread public opposition to the […]
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 […]
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 […]