Remembering Pete Gillard
With great sadness, Keep Our NHS Public bids goodbye to Pete Gillard, who died on 21 April. Pete was a tireless health campaigner, a lifelong socialist and trade unionist, an Executive Committee member in Keep […]
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Doctors launch legal challenge over PPE
Two doctors have launched an urgent legal challenge to guidance by NHS England on personal protective equipment (PPE), which they claim fails to protect them from infection with covid-19. This legal challenge will be uncomfortable […]
Social Care: from Rags to Recognition
The Government has declared that Social Care is part of the family of the NHS. The last time many of us heard that expression was from hospital managers trying to persuade striking porters, cleaners and […]
Pressure on under-resourced NHS causes grave concern over DNRs
‘Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation’ (DNACPR) agreements are part of good medical practice, but should never be driven by panic or unethical decisions relating to rationing. There is an urgent need for national guidance from […]
Long read: Grave concern over DNR’s
Stories in the press concerning DNACPR A GP practice in Wales sent letters to patients asking them to complete a DNACPR form (1). The letter was reported to state: “Completing a DNACPR will have several […]
New study gives fullest picture yet of NHS staff deaths
A new study published in the Health Service Journal (HSJ) has provided the fullest information yet available on health and social care workers who are dying of Covid-19 in the UK. The study confirmed 106 […]
Government failure: NHS staff still at high risk
Government failings are putting lifesaving NHS staff at risk, and the latest PPE scandal is guaranteed to make matters far worse. ‘I would love to be able to wave a magic wand and have PPE […]
Not just for NHS: Transport and frontline workers need PPE and Testing
This article was produced by Keep Our NHS Public Co-Chair Tony O’Sullivan, for the transport worker trade union ASLEF’s Victoria Line branch newsletter, explaining our position on the dangers facing frontline workers across sectors during […]
Keep Our NHS Public launches weekly figures on health and care worker deaths
Keep Our NHS Public has launched the first of its weekly updates, remembering the health and care workers who have been lost during the Coronavirus crisis. We will be continuing to publish these figures every […]
Tories remain hostile to the NHS
Despite Covid and claps, the Tories have shown they remain deeply hostile to a public National Health ServiceHowever much the Tories are now clapping for our NHS, we must remember that they are fundamentally opposed […]