The fight in the UK to save the national health service.
LABOUR’S AUSTERITY BUDGET: OUR RESPONSE
28 March 2025 @ 12:05 pm
Other than repeated claims to be ‘on the side of working people’ Rachel Reeve’s Spring Budget statement sounded more like a Conservative chancellor’s speech than a Labour Party committed to ‘ending the status quo’. From [...]STARMER’S LABOUR PARTY ABANDONS DISABLED PEOPLE
21 March 2025 @ 1:24 pm
Keep Our NHS Public is shocked and outraged by the government’s plan to cut disability benefits by up to £5bn. These cuts could affect more than a million disabled people across the UK. Disabled people [...]NHS England abolished as Starmer and Streeting take ‘control’
14 March 2025 @ 1:11 pm
Only days after Wes Streeting announced there would be massive cuts in NHS England’s (NHSE) workforce – halved from 13,000 to 6,500 to avoid ‘duplication’ of work by officials at the Department of Health and Social Care [...]Launch of New Report in Parliament on how to Rebuild NHS
7 March 2025 @ 5:01 pm
Academics and NHS professionals launch New Report in Parliament on how to Rebuild the NHSPress release on behalf of The 99% Organisation and Keep Our NHS Public Samantha WathenPress/Media Officer for Keep Our NHS PublicActing [...]KONP Month of Action February 2025
1 March 2025 @ 5:13 pm
CRISIS IN THE NHS – WE DEMAND ACTION The winter NHS winter crisis is critical.KONP supporters have been out on the streets asking shoppers and passers-by what they feel about the NHS. The answer is [...]Starmer wrong to think privatisation best prescription for ailing NHS
19 January 2025 @ 4:43 pm
John Puntis, Co Chair of Keep Our NHS Public analyses Keir Starmer’s plan for the NHS announced on 6 January 2025 ▪︎Crisis in acute care ignored▪︎Elective Care – embracing privatisation▪︎Plan disatrously enhances and entrenches role [...]Waiting list policy reset makes things worse
15 January 2025 @ 3:37 pm
This article by John Lister is reproduced with kind permission of The Lowdown.John Lister is an academic and writer with a long history of campaigning for the NHS. He is one of the founder members [...]Labour’s timid plans for a National Care Service – 2028 is too late!
7 January 2025 @ 2:53 pm
Labour’s recent ‘big announcement’ on social care is the setting up of an independent commission (lead by Dame Louise Casey) which will produce an interim report in 2026 and a final report in 2028. While [...]Five things you should know about the new Data (Use and Access) Bill
15 December 2024 @ 1:16 pm
Article from KONP Data Working group The Labour government has been quick to introduce new draft legislation, the Data (Use and Access) Bill (DUA), which aims to make data, including our personal health data, widely [...]Matt Hancock shows no shame at Covid-19 Inquiry
23 November 2024 @ 1:14 pm
Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock has appeared over 2 days in front of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, which is now in its third module – ‘Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare systems in the 4 [...]