NHS @ 77 | Day of Action Roundup
Saturday 5 July 2025 marked the 77th anniversary of the founding of the National Health Service. Keep Our NHS Public activists from around the country organised local events to celebrate the NHS. The message from […]
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NHS Ten Year Health Plan Risks Long-Term Damage: “Not recovery, but managed decline”, say campaigners
Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s speech announcing Labour’s 10 Year Health Plan for England was as hollow as it was patronising to NHS patients and workers. However Starmer and Reeves spin it, it is simply not […]
Welfare Bill rebellion reveals major cracks in Starmer leadership
Last night Keir Starmer was forced to make a ‘dramatic climbdown’ over the Welfare Reform Bill, showing that he cannot hide from the unpopularity of his policies anymore. While the Welfare Bill has been passed, […]
How can we campaign for the NHS in 2025?
Since Keep Our NHS Public was founded in 2005, we have been fighting for an NHS that is free at the point of need, publicly provided, funded and accountable. In the article below, Lucy Nichols […]
Labour, the private sector and the NHS
Below we print the text of a a very informed and concise interview on LBC NEWS LBC News Sandy Warr, Sunday morning 15 June 2025 with John Puntis, Co-Chair of Keep Our NHS Public Listen:https://x.com/keepnhspublic/status/1934171933739728924?t=5jggU7O2-DPppwTjxQLVgQ&s=08 […]
Victory for NHS early-intervention service in Manchester
We are republishing this article from Unite the Union rep, Dr John Mulligan who helped lead the successful action in mental health to demand more urgent resources for the Manchester Early Intervention in Psychosis Team. […]
Spending review 2025 – not yet a turning point for NHS
Government would like to present the recent spending review as a turning point in its economic policies, with a round of investment that will stimulate economic growth. Rachel Reeves announced a 3% rise in day […]
Five things to know about NHS SubCos in 2025 and why they should be resisted
What is an NHS SubCo? An NHS wholly-owned subsidiary company (SubCo) is a private company, set up by an NHS Foundation Trust (FT) or, less often, by an NHS Trust to which they can transfer […]
Starmer is wrong: the NHS and social care need immigrants to survive
On Monday morning, Keir Starmer doubled down on the scapegoating of immigrants, who he claims have caused ‘incalculable’ damage to the UK. Starmer’s desperate pandering to the racist politics of Reform in an attempt to […]
LABOUR’S AUSTERITY BUDGET: OUR RESPONSE
Other than repeated claims to be ‘on the side of working people’ Rachel Reeve’s Spring Budget statement sounded more like a Conservative chancellor’s speech than a Labour Party committed to ‘ending the status quo’. From […]