Labour’s NHS manifesto not ‘Fit for the Future’
The recovery of the NHS is in the hands of the incoming government and the balance of forces able to force change. Keep Our NHS Public’s crucial concerns in the Labour Manifesto on the NHS […]
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Primary care: events are moving fast, and in the wrong direction
Brenda Allan from the KONP Primary Care Working group tells us about developments which are moving Primary Care in the wrong direction What’s good for patients Is good for the economy. Primary care investment is […]
Why the UK really does need a clear plan to fix adult social care
This article is written by Anna Barford Principal Research Associate, University of Cambridge and Mia Gray Professor of Economic Geography, University of CambridgeThe article was first published in The Conversation, on June 7 2024 and […]
Myth of spare capacity in private health care sector straining to help the NHS
John Puntis is Co-Chair of Keep Our NHS Public The private sector health sector remains small and its activities opaque Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting has no doubt that greater investment in the private sector […]
The Rational Policy-Maker’s Guide to the NHS at the Senedd
By Mark.E.Thomas | April 18th, 2024 This is an approximate transcript of the launch of The Rational Policy-maker’s Guide to the NHS at the Senedd in 17 April, 2024 at an event for members of the Senedd and other […]
Funding the NHS: a plain English guide to money and affordability
This article is from Gavin Barker from End Westminster Rule However laudable the aspiration for a publicly funded NHS, whatever the scale of public support, ultimately everything boils down to money – or lack of. […]
Restore the People’s NHS Day of Action 9 March
On Saturday, March 9th, NHS staff and campaigners from Keep Our NHS Public took part in 20 events across England to mark a national ‘Day of Action’. These emergency protests were called to draw public attention to […]
Are Physician Associates a threat to NHS General Practice?
At a time of chronic underfunding, GP shortages, escalating workload, and privatisation, the unregulated, under-supervised and under-supported employment of physician associates (PAs) in primary care, resulting in diagnosis and treatment delays, sometimes with fatal consequences, […]
In defence of the NHS
John Puntis, Co-chair Keep Our NHS Public It is common for the NHS to be attacked on a variety of spurious grounds, a series of negative statements often being repeated uncritically and ad nauseam by […]
Wes Streeting: how false comparisons and magical thinking undermine the NHS
Keep Our NHS Public Wes Streeting has had an another bright idea. He wants the NHS be the same as the health system in a country with a population only two thirds the size of […]