Newsletter – November 2018
oveoveeNational KONP and NHS News Scrap ICPs & Support the NHS Bill: Rally & Petition at Parliament & DoH Thank you to the over a hundred supporters who turned out on Friday 26 October to […]
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Budget 2018 – Plenty of spin but no more money for the NHS
Chancellor Philip Hammond’s latest budget on 29 October was predictably disappointing for our NHS, with no new funding promised. Despite claims from Hammond that the NHS was, ‘A precious institution that [had] been nurtured for most […]
In Memoriam: David Matthew Bailey – What can never die, Went on to organise
Nurse, NHS activist, socialist, refugees volunteer and campaigner, photographer, family man, David Matthew Bailey was an inspiration to all who knew him. It’s now a couple of months since the world of NHS activism […]
Mark Thomas: Check Up NHS@70 at The Arcola Theatre
Mark Thomas’ new one man show on the NHS at 70 at London’s Arcola Theatre, is based on a series of interviews with leading experts and activists. Mark explores our NHS to see where we […]
Scrap ICPs & Support the NHS Bill: Rally & Petition at Parliament & DoH
Today 100 NHS and anti-privatisation activists gathered in Westminster to demand that NHS England rule to scrap the proposed Integrated Care Provider contracts. Keep Our NHS Public were joined by campaigners from Health Campaigns Together, We […]
‘Accountable’ or ‘Integrated’ care organisations – change the name but it still spells unaccountable, disintegration of our NHS
We are all quite rightly concerned about the increasing privatisation and fragmentation of the NHS in England happening under our noses. It is an affront to a publicly funded system that private companies may swoop […]
Hollow Mental Health Proposal from Government
Theresa May announcing a Suicide Prevention Minister to tackle the growing mental health problems that are a product of austerity is empty rhetoric says consultant psychiatrist Dr Mona Kamal, It would not be World Mental Health day without an announcement […]
The NHS and Social Care are one family, we need to love them both
On Saturday 17th of November Health Campaigns Together will stage their Reclaim Social Care Conference in Birmingham. This will be an essential event in response to the ongoing and undeniable crisis in social care. Attending this event is […]
Scrap the ICP contract: Rally and petition to save the NHS!
Join the Protest and Petition to Scrap the ICP contract. 10:30AM – 12:30PM – FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT OPPOSITE OLD PALACE YARD WESTMINSTER – LONDON SW1P 3JY NHS England is consulting on the […]
Newsletter – October 2018
National KONP and NHS News NHSE Consultation on Integrated Care Providers NHS England is consulting on a new model of health and social care provision that could see multi-billion-pound contracts handed over to the private […]