Recruiting 5,000 extra GPs: Fact vs Fiction
FICTION: In September 2015 Jeremy Hunt as Health Secretary promised the NHS would recruit an extra 5,000 full time equivalent GPs (FTE) by 2021. This was also set out as an objective the following year […]
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Unforgivable: the Conservative Party’s day of shame
Holding the government to account over the NHS in the current General Election has required us to cut through many layers of spin, deception and misinformation. Tory ministers have been called out on issues like […]
40 new hospitals: Fact vs Fiction
FICTION: via Conservative website:“As part of the new Health Infrastructure Plan, 40 new hospitals will be built across England over the next decade, along with dozens of hospital upgrades and a fund to improve critical […]
NHS performance: Fact vs fiction
FICTION: At the last election in 2017, the Conservatives, led by Theresa May, promised “exceptional healthcare, whenever, wherever, delivered by an NHS with the money, buildings and people it needs”. The word “exceptional” is not […]
One million sign Trump petition
Over one million of you have signed our petition to keep Trump’s hands off our NHS! Thank you so much for helping us reach this major milestone, just in time for the most important election […]
New MRI scanners for the NHS: Fact vs fiction
Fiction Johnson has promised £200 million to replace MRI, CT scanners and breast cancer screening equipment, and committed to ensure “no scanner in the NHS is more than 10 years old.” Fact: 31st of 37 […]
Find out how cuts have affected your local area
We are in the middle of one of the worst winter crisis the NHS has ever faced, and yet Conservatives still fail to fund our NHS properly. This is why we are excited to announce […]
Trump and trade deals: Fact vs Fiction
FICTION: the NHS is of the table in post Brexit trade According to the Sun, Boris Johnson’s senior staff sent “a stinging letter to Trade Secretary Liz Truss’s office” back in August. “In it, one […]
We reject the Tory “Long Term Plan” for the NHS
The Tories have a string of broken promises on the NHS. But now, they’ve made a promise we think they intend to keep. It will break the founding principles of our NHS and will bring […]
Whatever the spin, leaked documents reveal serious threat to the NHS
We now know through the release of leaked documents on trade negotiations with the US that the NHS is at at grave risk and almost certainly on the table. The question that needs to be asked […]