Demand a public inquiry over Covid-19 deaths
This article was written by the two founder members of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK Jo Goodman and Matt Fowler. Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK was formed at the end of April by […]
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Covid19: UK still stumbling along
This article was written by our co-chair John Puntis, who is a retired NHS paediatrician, and member of Leeds Keep Our NHS Public. Policy failure Richard Horton, editor of the prestigious medical journal ‘The Lancet’, […]
Big Tech: another reason why the NHS is at risk from trade deals
This article was written by the Keep Our NHS Public Trade Deals sub-group and a longer version of this briefing is available in our resource section. Trade deals promote direct foreign investment and extend the […]
Why NHS pay matters
Helen O’Connor is a regional organiser for GMB Union. Last Saturday 8 August, thousands of NHS health workers marched in towns and cities all over the country because they are angry. These staff worked to […]
Serco contract must end on 23 August
Campaigners yesterday called for £528 million of funding to be given to local authorities and Public Health England teams to fund a local test, track and trace programme, instead of to the private companies managing […]
Will you march with nurses this weekend?
Ness Woodcock-Dennis, is one of the main organisers for the NHS Workers Say No! protests taking place this Saturday 8 August. She is a Registered Nurse and nursing lecturer and explains here why it is […]
Results of patient identity checking pilot suppressed
The Department of Health and Social Care has failed to provide the results of an identity checking pilot, that aimed to deny free NHS care to some patients.Campaigners’ Freedom of Information Act requests for results […]
Nurses march for better pay
Thousands of nurses and health and care workers protesters in Central London yesterday to protest the lack of a meaningful pay rise for nurses. While the Government had announced pay rises for a number of […]
The Tories have shown their true colours
Cat Hobbs is the Founder and Director of WeOwnIt, who are running a petition to protect the NHS from trade deals.Gone is the clapping for our carers. Gone are the platitudes about not wanting to […]
No worker is expendable
‘Exposed, silenced, attacked: failures to protect health and essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic’. This timely and shocking report compiled by Amnesty International opens with the stark figure of 3000 health workers losing their lives […]