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’.
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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 […]