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 […]
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Plans for post-Covid NHS hatched behind the lockdown
This article is by John Lister, Keep Our NHS Public’s Secretary. It originally appeared on The Lowdown, an online magazine for health campaigners. Debates over relaxing the lockdown and whether or not the peak of the […]
‘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 […]
Newsletter – October 2018
National KONP and NHS News NHSE Consultation on Integrated Care Providers NHS England is consulting on a new model of health and social care provision that could see multi-billion-pound contracts handed over to the private […]
Integrated Care Providers – What are they and how to oppose them
NHS England is consulting on the contract for a new model of health and social care provision that threatens the break-up of the NHS into units run by less accountable ‘Integrated Care Providers’ – or […]
Commons Health & Social Care Select Committee on ACOs
Oral evidence on dangers for the NHS of Accountable Care Systems and Organisations We were pleased to be invited as Keep Our NHS Public to give oral evidence to the Commons Health & Social Care […]
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) […]
HCT – PA Conference for NHS Campaigners 4 November – BOOK NOW
Don’t miss this campaigners conference building our unstoppable movement to save the NHS Health Campaigns Together and The People’s Assembly Against Austerity are working together once again to bring the biggest-ever national NHS Campaigners’ Conference […]
Historic moment as Labour Conference unanimously recommits to restoring an NHS for all
Momentous progress was made at the Labour Party Conference on Tuesday 26 September An excellent motion was passed including a robust call for a defence of the NHS in England now and a move to reinstate it […]
Hawking backs NHS – destroys Hunt’s posturing
[updated 30 August 2017] Successful ‘Talk NHS’ debate: Hawking follows up with stinging demolition of Hunt’s policies and practice Professor Stephen Hawking gave a wonderful speech at the Royal Society of Medicine Saturday 19 August. [Photo: […]