2018 – a year of non-stop campaigning
As we take a look back at KONP’s campaigning work in 2018 – alongside Health Campaigns Together and our allies – it is impressive and daunting to see just how much work has been required […]
News
New ‘Long Term Plan’ spells danger for the NHS
Theresa May’s launch of the NHS Long Term Plan this morning 7 January should fool no-one in Liverpool or anywhere else. Theresa May was welcomed to Liverpool by Merseyside KONP, Save Liverpool Women’s Hospital campaign […]
The winter crisis is one of this government’s own making
Is the winter crisis a new phenomenon? A winter crisis in the NHS may not be an entirely new phenomenon, but the severity of it is. 2012-13 saw the first reports of a winter crisis, […]
Ministers refuse to rule out more mass operation cancellations or ringfence the £240m funding for social care
The Department of Health and Social Care will not ringfence £240m social care funding, nor guarantee mass surgical cancellations will not happen again this winter. At a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts yesterday […]
Plan to end Huddersfield A&E gets green light – campaigners see red
This week it was announced that the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has approved £196.5 million of capital funding for reconfiguration plans of hospital and community services in Huddersfield. On the […]
Government recommends 54 NHS Trusts outsource services to private sector
The Government has drawn up a list of NHS trusts it believes should be outsourcing services to private health care providers to reduce waiting lists. Waiting lists have been growing due to Government cuts and […]
Newsletter – December 2018
National KONP and NHS News Matt Hancock’s endorsement of Babylon risks breaching ministerial code Keep Our NHS Public have long voiced our concerns about Matt Hancock’s appointment as Secretary of State for Health, one of […]
Hancock risks breaching ministerial code, backs Babylon and rejects science
The last couple of weeks have not been easy for health secretary Matt Hancock. Last week he included trainees and part time workers in the figures for GP recruitment in an attempt to dress them […]
‘Social Prescribing’ a fraudulent fantasy which can’t hide true cost of NHS cuts and Austerity
Like all recent Conservative health secretaries, Matt Hancock likes to dress up money saving schemes, cuts and privatisation-by-stealth, as benign patient focused initiatives. While no one at Keep Our NHS Public would argue against effective […]
UPFRONT CHARGES FOR PATIENTS NEEDLESSLY COST LIVES
The unnecessary and tragic death of Elfreda Spencer, highlights the shocking callousness of Conservative party policy towards our most treasured institution while exposing the racism at the heart of their ‘hostile environment’ policies, writes Health Campaigns Together […]