We Can Afford the NHS
by Mark ThomasMark Thomas is the founder of the 99% Organisation. He is author of 99%: Mass Impoverishment and How to End It (FT Best Books of 2019) and lead author of The Rational policy-maker’s guide to the […]
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Stopping the Rot in Social Care
By Gordon PetersGordon Peters argues in this article that Labour must not kick the social care challenge into the long grass. Gordon is a former Director of Social Services in Hackney and a steering group member of […]
Learning the right lessons to rescue our struggling NHS
By John Lister The article was first published in Labour Outlook on 15 August 2024 ‘Rather than repeating the errors of 20 years ago, Labour should show real courage, and follow the examples of Attlee […]
Keep Our NHS Public statement on racist and Islamophobic violence
Keep Our NHS Public condemns the far-right rioting that has taken place in Southport last week and around the UK over the weekend of 6/7 August and beyond. This shocking and upsetting violence must be […]
Devastating dossier: birth services in Oxfordshire
Despite all efforts of those in the Keep the Horton General (KTHG) campaign, Banbury’s consultant-led service ended in 2016, to be replaced by a midwife-led maternity unit. There were poignant warnings of the dangers for […]
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 […]
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 […]