NHS pay: 3% is much too little, too late
The government’s revised offer of a 3% pay increase for NHS workers is far too little, too late. After months of delay, the latest offer put forward by the government is only a slight improvement […]
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Statement on Health and Care Bill 2021-22 by Keep Our NHS Public
The Health and Care Bill will be launched this week, as Prime Minister Johnson overrules his new Health Secretary and Covid cases soar. Keep Our NHS Public (KONP) calls for widespread public opposition to the […]
A farewell to Matt Hancock
Dr John Puntis, co-chair of Keep Our NHS Public, musician and activist considers what – if anything – will change with the resignation of Matt Hancock. So, farewell then Matt Hancock, little lamented Secretary of […]
Repeat lockdowns caused by Government failure
The final session of the People’s Covid Inquiry heard that the Government’s failure to control infection rates of COVID-19 had led to repeated lockdowns.Rather than getting an effective track and trace system to ensure that […]
End ‘vaccine apartheid’ – nobody is safe until everybody is safe
Keep Our NHS Public supports the call for a ‘People’s Vaccine’ Carried away by the ‘vaccine bounce’ (undoubtedly a major factor in their recent electoral success) the Government’s myopic preoccupation with focusing on the pandemic […]
NHS patient data privacy and the COVID-19 pandemic
Campaigners are concerned that the COVID-19 pandemic is being used as a guise to push through opportunities for private companies to share NHS GP patient data without consent. On the 12 May 2021, NHS Digital […]
Why we held a People’s Covid Inquiry
Dr Jacky Davis is a founding member of Keep Our NHS Public and has been serving as a member of our People’s Covid Inquiry panel since it started in March 2021. Here, she looks over […]
Invitation to the seventh session of the People’s Covid Inquiry asking: Was there profiteering from people’s health?
The People’s Covid Inquiry would like to invite you to register for the seventh session of the Inquiry, taking place next week on Wednesday 19 May 2021 at 7pm. This session will ask if there […]
Women, BAME people and those on low income impacted more by COVID-19
People on low incomes, women and BAME people all suffered health and economic inequalities as a result of the Government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The sixth session of the People’s Covid Inquiry heard that […]
10 things the Government needs to do now
It’s becoming increasingly clear that the Government has no intention of holding an inquiry into its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic any time soon, which is why the People’s Covid Inquiry being held by Keep […]