The following stories were selected from those sent as daily alerts under the search term ‘NHS’, and ‘Keep Our NHS Public’ from the Google alerts service. Please send any comments to Alan: [email protected]
10 February
Privatisation cases threatening free NHS treatment
[18 more stories]
Time running out to save NHS
Rise in NHS dissatisfaction
Hunt denies austerity causing NHS problems
Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-hunt-nhs-austerity-cuts-junior-doctors-strike-a6862976.html
Caroline Lucas: why I have removed my backing for an NHS Commission
OurNHS: https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/caroline-lucas/why-i-have-removed-my-backing-for-nhs-commission
Saving the NHS in five steps
Opinion piece in the Independent: could be a statement of our aims!
11 February
NHS facing winter pressures all year round
Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-3441563/NHS-facing-winter-pressures-year-round-report-warns.html
NHS whistleblowers struggle to find work
Patients march to St Georges to plead for urogynaecology services (local)
Wandsworth Guardian, including a quote from south west London KONP’s Brian Colman. Well done, Brian: http://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/news/14266584.Patients_march_to_St_George_s_to_plead_for_future_of_urogynaecology_services
Privatising support services will not save the NHS
Left Foot Forward: http://leftfootforward.org/2016/02/privatising-support-services-will-not-save-the-nhs
Hunt at war with the NHS: nurses next
Mirror: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-hunt-war-nhs-its-7357642
Cambridge campaigners hold anti-austerity protest (Local)
Cambridge News, KONP local group given a plug for a meeting: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge-anti-austerity-campaigners-hold-Market/story-28728903-detail/story.html
15 February
Hunt’s views on rhe NHS
The Guardian’s views on the NHS
Drop in mental health funding
BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35559629
16 February
Preparation for privatisation
Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/15/this-is-preparation-for-full-privatisation-of-the-nhs
Tories attacking all we hold dear
Morning Star: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-05d0-The-Tories-are-attacking-all-that-we-hold-dear#.VsNJWseOWLU
Income tax must rise to save the NHS
Finally, someone stating the obvious? Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/16/income-tax-must-rise-3p-to-stop-nhs-staggering-from-year-to-year
NHS pledges £1billion to treat mental health
But see our press release on how the NHS is at least twice that much in the red, and worsening:
https://keepournhspublic.com/blog/press-release-nhs-2-billion-in-the-red-and-rising
STOP PRESS: There’s a Better Way…
You can now get alerts sent about health stories yourself. This is much better than a regular, ‘supplied’ service because you can choose what key words trigger the alerts: “Keep Our NHS Pubic”, “NHS”, “health” – your choice. Then you can adjust the settings to improve the coverage. This has the added advantage that local stories to you can be searched for, as well as national. Alerts can be set up to send you an e-mail as a story breaks, or summarise them under headings you decide once a day.
This is done through Google news and Google alerts: free services anyone can set up. To find out how to do this, go to the Steering Group, News & Events section and look for the “starter set of instructions”.
… and please don’t forget, your smartphone or tablet will have free apps that look for and filter news, too: try configuring those for health stories, or the NHS, as well.
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