NHS workers get ready to strike
‘If there are no staff left in the NHS, there is no NHS. The fight on pay is not just about bettering our own conditions but is directly linked to patient safety and preventing the […]
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In a cost-of-living crisis, we cannot afford to continue neglecting mental health services
“As a mental health professional who has worked in the NHS for over 10 years, I am unsurprised to find that a report by the BMA shows mental health services are failing disproportionately as compared […]
Weak Coffey plan won’t stimulate crumbling NHS
The Tory Conference this year (2-5 October) highlights the weaknesses and dangers of this Truss-Kwarteng-Coffey Government. John Lister takes apart their statements and plans for the NHS as Coffey addresses the Tory faithful. The article […]
Fourth time lucky? Few believe that Health Secretary Therese Coffey can solve the NHS crisis
The new Prime Minister Liz Truss has this week appointed her friend and ally Therese Coffey as the Deputy Leader and Secretary for Health and Social Care, but how much do we really know about […]
YOUR DATA IS AT RISK: read how & why now
The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, introduced by Nadine Dorries, is being RUSHED through Parliament, with its second reading on 5th September. The speed suggests that this Bill is of considerable political importance to the Conservatives […]
Review: NHS Under Siege
John Lister, Jacky Davis (eds.). The Merlin Press Limited, Dagenham, 2022 www.merlinpress.co.uk This book should be read by anyone interested in both defending and rebuilding the NHS and in addressing health inequity as a matter […]
BBC’s Panorama ‘Undercover: Britain’s biggest GP chain’ showed us why big business has no place in our GP services
See ‘Undercover: Britain’s biggest GP chain’. On 13 June, Panorama was devoted to an investigation of the US company Centene, now the largest provider of General Practitioner services in the UK (next to the NHS) […]
Violence against GPs has doubled
Violent incidents at GP surgeries have doubled in the last 5 years. Recently, a patient at my surgery stood in the waiting room, shouting at reception staff while waving their facemask around – their aerosols […]
The Health and Care Bill becomes an Act: Why it matters to us all
Despite the concerns of many NHS staff, official bodies and health campaigners, the Health and Care Bill became an act of parliament on 28th April, two days after voting in the Commons and the House […]
International Workers Memorial Day
John Puntis Co-Chair KONP, speech in Leeds:
Covid 19 has caused the deaths of at least 2,300 health and social care staff in England and Wales. John Puntis Co Chair KONP, Leeds
This is a reflection of their high risk of exposure to the virus in the course of their work, with an over representation of those from black and minority ethnic communities.