People’s Covid Inquiry
With more than 150,000 deaths from COVID-19 Keep Our NHS Public believes the public deserves to know how and why this has happened. That is why we launched the People’s Covid Inquiry, along with a […]
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100,000 dead. How did we get here?
January 23rd 2021 marks the first anniversary of the Wuhan lockdown and is ten months from when the UK first introduced restrictions on people’s movement in order to decrease the spread of the virus. In […]
House of Commons votes against amendments to protect NHS
Many campaigns supporting public services – and in particular the NHS – had high hopes for two amendments for the Trade Bill when it came back to the House of Commons from the Lords on […]
Bristol Protect Our NHS protests Tory corruption, cronyism and privatisation
Keep Our NHS Public members from Protect Our NHS staged a protest outside the Weston Super Mare constituency office of John Penrose, husband of Dido Harding, in the first week of January.Protestors unveiled a banner […]
NHS sending patients to hotels is emblematic of government failure
The news leaked this week that hotel beds are now going to be used for NHS patients, signals that this crisis is getting worse, not better, and will create enormous pressures on NHS staff who are already struggling to cope, writes nurse and Secretary of NHS Staff Voices, Iain Wilson.
NHS Staff stand with the National Education Union
Throughout the pandemic, our key workers have struggled in impossible situations to support us all. Our teachers, teaching assistants, special educational needs support staff, caretakers and office staff have supported and taught our children tirelessly.
We support teachers trying to keep schools closed – until they’re safe
Keep Our NHS Public supports the National Education Union (NEU) resolution to keep schools closed until they’re safe. As infection rates reach an all-time high in the UK, it is unsafe and unfair to allow schools to open on Monday without the appropriate safety checks in place.
Opening all schools: an avoidable disaster
The political leadership Britain is completely failing to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. Since March government policy on lockdowns, on testing, on pushing to re-open businesses and keep education institutions open have directly contributed to the rise in the infection rates and to the spiraling death toll. We must impose a national lockdown and keep all schools closed.
A year of triumphing in the face of adversity
As 2020 comes to an end, we would like to thank all of our supporters for everything they have done for us during this challenging year. This time last year we were still healing from […]
10 Ways the Government has failed us over Covid
The government’s handling of the pandemic has been a disaster from the start. Ministers have shown themselves unwilling or incapable of learning from mistakes. Here are Keep Our NHS Public’s 10 ways we’ve been failed by the government over the Covid crisis.