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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
The SOS NHS demands: Approve emergency funding of £20 billion to save lives this winter Invest in a fully publicly owned NHS & guarantee free healthcare for future generations Pay staff properly: without fair pay, […]
While NHS resources are facing a renewed and tightening financial squeeze in Rishi Sunak’s newly-imposed austerity, the limited funds available are more likely than ever to be diverted to paying for services in private hospitals […]
Public satisfaction with the NHS has plummeted, as anyone trying to book a GP appointment (including me) will tell you. A survey into public satisfaction with the NHS released yesterday shows it is at its lowest level […]
Last Tuesday 22nd March, NHS staff and health campaigners from the alliance SOS NHS (the largest coalition yet formed in defence of the NHS made up of over 50 campaign groups, trade unions, health and care staff, social movements and […]
Keep Our NHS Public member Paul Casson explains how campaigners are successfully fighting to keep their local hospital open in the Southern Lake District. The threat of hospital closure is a familiar one to the […]
It’s been estimated that, in monetary terms, the information that the NHS holds on its patients has a market value of several billion pounds per annum. Its other value is of course for academic research […]
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