NHS THREAT: Tory press proclaims ‘NHS is broken and needs replacing’
The NHS is broken and no longer needs fixing. Now, what many have been waiting for, the Tory press is proclaiming it needs replacing. According to the Daily Telegraph, that is.
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NHS THREAT: NHS purse-holders cut and cut again
Nearly a third of clinical commissioning groups – the CCGs who hold NHS budgets – have implemented or are considering restrictions to services this year.
NHS THREAT: GPs’ College warns of ‘7-day working’ myth
More than one in 10 GP roles in England are vacant, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has revealed, making government plans for 7-day general practice ‘unrealistic’.
PRESS RELEASE – NHS Plans ‘Unaffordable’? You May as Well Be Cutting Throats
[For immediate release 4 August 2015] Monitor’s instruction to NHS Foundation trusts to fill NHS vacancies ‘only where necessary’ because of ‘unaffordable’ financial plans [http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/04/nhs-told-to-fill-vacancies-only-where-essential-due-to-looming-funding-crisis] is as flawed as it is dangerous – and will […]
PRESS RELEASE – Putting People First Means Keeping the NHS Public: Tonight’s Panorama programme
[For immediate release Monday 13 July 2015] Keep Our NHS Public wants an NHS that always puts people first and supports any move that aims to do that – such as the Healthy Liverpool programme […]
PRESS RELEASE – KONP Back NHS Bill
Embargoed until 0:01 Wednesday 1 July Parliament will be handed a further chance to save the NHS from massive break-up and eventual collapse tomorrow (Wednesday 1 July) as the NHS Bill is laid before it […]
PRESS RELEASE – KONP Public Demo Against ‘NHS Procurement’ Conference – Birmingham 9 July
Immediate release – 29 June Keep Our NHS Public is calling for its members and supporters to demonstrate outside a major national exhibition which reinforces the privatising of the NHS while claiming to be about […]
PRESS RELEASE – Austerity Hurts Health – The People’s March Against Austerity 20 June
Immediate release – 17 June 2015 Austerity measures hurt the NHS, NOT protect it – which is why Keep Our NHS Public will be part of the People’s March Against Austerity this Saturday, 20 June, […]
PRESS RELEASE – Why the 7-Day Week Breaks the NHS
Immediate release – 20 May 2015 The latest declaration by David Cameron to make the NHS ‘7-day working’ appears attractive but is superficial and deeply flawed. It threatens to wreck staff morale in promising to […]
PRESS RELEASE – ‘7 day NHS’: but NHS cash controlled by private health firms
Immediate release – 20 May 2015 David Cameron has pledged to make the ‘7-day NHS’ a working reality, without spelling out how it can be done without extra money. But how the NHS spends its […]