Keep Our NHS Public

This rushed-through Health and Care Bill is a threat to a truly universal NHS

10 March 2022 Keep Our NHS Public 4

In an emergency, all of us expect to go to A&E and be seen, no matter who we are or where we’re from. In law, Clinical Commissioning Groups must ensure that emergency care is provided […]

SOS NHS protests send clear message to Government on NHS spending

4 March 2022 Keep Our NHS Public 0

On Saturday, over 85 protests happened up and down the country demanding emergency funding for the NHS, proper pay for health, care and support workers and a fully public NHS. In the current political climate […]

Condition critical in Cornwall – the effect of long-term under-funding in a rural county where demands on the NHS and Social Care are high

21 February 2022 Keep Our NHS Public 0

Last month a woman in Penzance was forced to wait all night for an emergency ambulance for her husband with suspected stroke, only to be told in the morning that she must drive him the […]

A bad deal for our NHS – how profit-motives have no place in healthcare

18 February 2022 Keep Our NHS Public 0

In 2020, the Government contracted the private healthcare sector to support the NHS in battling the pandemic; yet the private sector prioritised its own pocket over the public. Now, details of a profitable new agreement […]

The pandemic is still with us -178k deaths proclaim Johnson spectacularly failed to ‘get all the big calls right’

17 February 2022 Keep Our NHS Public 0

KONP continues to fight vigorously on a number of different fronts as Covid, austerity and government abandoning all pretence of following the science wreak havoc. Meanwhile, the NHS is further threatened by proposals in the […]

Tackling the crisis in social care: we must value workers to ensure future service

15 February 2022 Keep Our NHS Public 0

The staffing crisis in social care is nothing new. Before the pandemic, analysis from The Office Group (TOG) illustrated that social care was the most stressful industry to work in as workers tend to work […]

SOS NHS Let’s build a movement so massive, loud and strong that the government can’t ignore us

29 January 2022 Keep Our NHS Public 2

Our brand-new campaign SOS NHS is the most ambitious ever for the NHS. The campaign initiated by Keep Our NHS Public and Health Campaigns Together is already supported by around 40 key organisations representing a […]

Sick pay and end to poverty wages for G4S workers

27 January 2022 Keep Our NHS Public 0

I first met Croydon University Hospital porters and domestics before the pandemic struck. Without these vital workers, many of who are migrants, the hospitals would grind to a halt, so they have industrial power. G4S […]

Boris Johnson flicked a V at the rules, and all those who followed them

24 January 2022 Keep Our NHS Public 0

It’s the unfairness of sacrifice that hurts the most. I don’t just say this as a nurse working with cancer patients, but as part of the overwhelming majority of people who have spent the last […]

Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre sell-off ‘short-sighted’

22 January 2022 Keep Our NHS Public 0

Keep Our NHS Public campaigners in Oxfordshire have condemned plans announced last November to privatise the Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (VMIC) as “monumentally short-sighted”. The VMIC was established in 2018 as an institution which […]