NHS 70th Birthday Card Campaign
All the materials you need to take part in our birthday card campaign Stockport NHS Watch have designed a campaign to celebrate the NHS and draw attention to the Conservative’s campaign of privatisation around the […]
News
Professor Wendy Savage wins the BMJ Healthcare Award
Keep Our NHS Public is proud to announce that Professor Wendy Savage has been given the prestigious award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to health and healthcare in the UK’ at a ceremony held by the British […]
Judicial Review 23/24 May challenging legality of introduction of ACOs
Keep Our NHS Public has supported JR4NHS from the word go and our members are participants in the legal challenge. KONP sees this judicial review taken by the JR4NHS team as an important legal milestone for […]
Dr Chris Day
After a very long and incredibly stressful three and a half years which has seen the derailing of his career, Dr Chris Day has finally won a landmark legal battle. Thanks to the tireless efforts […]
Newsletter – May 2018
National KONP and NHS news NHS at 70: Free, for all, forever On Saturday 30 June people will be taking to the streets to demonstrate and celebrate the NHS’ 70th year. There will be a […]
The NHS doesn’t require reform – it needs a revolution
Kailash Chand and Allyson Pollock (Reproduced with permission: first published in Political Quarterly 1st May 2018) On the 4th July, the National Health Service will celebrate its 70th birthday and there will be much fanfare and […]
Push Doctor implies private service is run by NHS doctors
[first posted 27 August 2017, updated with ASA verdict 20 April 2018] GPs and campaigners in London were shocked to see posters on the London Underground advertising Push Doctor – this is a private doctor […]
Albert Thompson to receive cancer treatment he needs
We wrote about Albert Thompson’s (not his real name) ordeal in our April Newsletter . Despite living in London for 44 years and paying 3 decades of taxes Thompson was told that unless he can […]
Push Doctor adverts condemned by the advertising watchdog
In August 2017 we publicised how Push Doctor was making false claims in its advertising drive. The ASA (Advertising Standards Authority) has now banned some Push Doctor ads for implying that services were provided by the NHS, and therefore not making […]
March for Science: our call for evidence-based politics
March for Science now has an international day of action, and the London demonstration took place on Saturday 14 April in Whitehall. Keep Our NHS Public was invited to share this message of solidarity: Thank […]