The NHS doesn’t need Reform UK
We don’t need the kind of NHS ‘reforms’ currently on offer from the main electoral parties, none of which provide a sustainable solution to the deepening crisis in the National Health Service, but neither does […]
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Main manifestos all lead to NHS decline, warns Nuffield Trust
John Lister analyses the manifestos of the three major parties in The Lowdown. We are grateful for permission to reprint this article. The publication of the manifestos of the three major parties has been followed […]
Statement by Co-chairs of Keep Our NHS Public (KONP) on the general election and North Islington constituency
KONP is a non-party political organisation with a clear position against privatisation in the NHS, a coherent plan for a People’s NHS (directed to all parties), and a detailed critique of the current Labour Party […]
Labour’s NHS manifesto not ‘Fit for the Future’
The recovery of the NHS is in the hands of the incoming government and the balance of forces able to force change. Keep Our NHS Public’s crucial concerns in the Labour Manifesto on the NHS […]
Primary care: events are moving fast, and in the wrong direction
Brenda Allan from the KONP Primary Care Working group tells us about developments which are moving Primary Care in the wrong direction What’s good for patients Is good for the economy. Primary care investment is […]
Why the UK really does need a clear plan to fix adult social care
This article is written by Anna Barford Principal Research Associate, University of Cambridge and Mia Gray Professor of Economic Geography, University of CambridgeThe article was first published in The Conversation, on June 7 2024 and […]
Myth of spare capacity in private health care sector straining to help the NHS
John Puntis is Co-Chair of Keep Our NHS Public The private sector health sector remains small and its activities opaque Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting has no doubt that greater investment in the private sector […]
Privatisation of a Kidney Dialysis Service in SE London
Introduction by Gay Lee, Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public Novara Media, in an article by journalist Andrew Kersley (see below), has investigated a sad and familiar story highlighting the creeping and complicated privatisation of a […]
KONP General Election statement
General Election: raise the call – ‘Restore the People’s NHS’ After 14 years of Coalition and Conservative government, and nearly five years since the 2019 Johnson government was elected, there is a long-awaited opportunity for […]
Unite members strike at Barts over unpaid bonus
Striking Unite members made their voices heard outside the King’s Fund headquarters in Central London on 14 May in the latest round of their dispute with Barts NHS Trust.