Government passes Health and Care Bill: KONP Statement
An Act of denial that endangers the NHS The Health and Care Bill is now on its way to getting Royal Assent as all objections and opposition has been brushed aside. The Government has got […]
Social Care
Tackling the crisis in social care: we must value workers to ensure future service
The staffing crisis in social care is nothing new. Before the pandemic, analysis from The Office Group (TOG) illustrated that social care was the most stressful industry to work in as workers tend to work […]
The tipping point for the NHS: Health and social care in crisis
Although the title of the recent highly critical Commons report on the pandemic was ‘Coronavirus: lessons learned to date’, very few lessons appear to have been learned. At the time of writing (October 25th), one […]
Government fails to offer any plans to transform ‘social care’
Keep Our NHS Public welcomes Bob Williams-Findlay, as guest writer. Bob is a disabled activist, member of Act4Inclusion and Reclaim Our Futures Alliance – an alliance of Disabled People and their organisations (DPOs) in England. Bob […]
When will the government start to care about care homes?
A total of 15,487 residential care and nursing homes are registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and have around 410 000 residents. Almost half of newly admitted residents come from hospitals. With the UK […]
We must end the social care crisis
Social care in this country is broken. 26% fewer people are supported in 2020 than in 2010, and local authority spending on social care has fallen by 49% in real terms despite soaring population and […]
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 […]
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 […]