Our NHS Deserves Better: Read our ‘2020 Vision’
Sunday 5th July marks the NHS 72nd anniversary. We want to celebrate it, but also demand better care is taken of it, as the last ten years of Government policy have seen it woefully unprepared […]
Social Care
The winter crisis is one of this government’s own making
Is the winter crisis a new phenomenon? A winter crisis in the NHS may not be an entirely new phenomenon, but the severity of it is. 2012-13 saw the first reports of a winter crisis, […]
Ministers refuse to rule out more mass operation cancellations or ringfence the £240m funding for social care
The Department of Health and Social Care will not ringfence £240m social care funding, nor guarantee mass surgical cancellations will not happen again this winter. At a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts yesterday […]
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 […]
Budget 2018 – Plenty of spin but no more money for the NHS
Chancellor Philip Hammond’s latest budget on 29 October was predictably disappointing for our NHS, with no new funding promised. Despite claims from Hammond that the NHS was, ‘A precious institution that [had] been nurtured for most […]
‘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 […]
The NHS and Social Care are one family, we need to love them both
On Saturday 17th of November Health Campaigns Together will stage their Reclaim Social Care Conference in Birmingham. This will be an essential event in response to the ongoing and undeniable crisis in social care. Attending this event is […]
‘Reclaim Social Care’ Conference responds to crisis
The Reclaim Social Care Conference in Birmingham on Saturday 17 November, called by our friends from Health Campaigns Together is an essential event in response to the ongoing crisis in social care. RECLAIM SOCIAL CARE CONFERENCE 11:00am […]
Docs Not Cops – ‘Protect access to NHS on basis of need’
Our thanks to Docs Not Cops for this guest post on their work and recent concession won from the Department of Health. Docs Not Cops is a group of NHS staff and patients that work to combat […]
Trust disowns scheme putting patients in ‘Airbnb style’ local homes – for now!
The plan to discharge inpatients to care of local residents with spare rooms at £50 a day has been put on hold following an outcry from campaigners, press and politicians. The HSJ today (26 October) […]