The fight in the UK to save the national health service.
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 [...]Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk – Unmet Needs Report
5 November 2024 @ 2:38 pm
Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk – Unmet Needs Report The Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk has released a report detailing the ongoing challenges and unmet [...]The budget – not nearly as generous as it might seem
5 November 2024 @ 12:55 pm
The headlines figures in the recent budget allocated to the NHS were an additional £22.6bn over the next two years for day-to-day spending, and a further £3.1bn capital over the same period. John Puntis, Keep [...]The (not a) doctor will see you now. Is there a non-doctor problem in NE London?
27 September 2024 @ 1:51 pm
By Carol Saunders (Tower Hamlets KONP), on behalf of NE London Save Our NHSSeptember 2024 NE London Save Our NHS (NELSON) 1 – which brings together four groups affiliated with Keep Our NHS Public – [...]Operose GP contracts terminated in North Central London
17 September 2024 @ 5:08 pm
Haringey Keep Our NHS Public4 September 2024 Background In 2021, the North Central London Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) gave permission for eight GP contracts to pass from AT Medics to Operose Health, the UK operation [...]We Can Afford the NHS
13 September 2024 @ 3:57 pm
by Mark ThomasMark Thomas is the founder of the 99% Organisation. He is author of 99%: Mass Impoverishment and How to End It (FT Best Books of 2019) and lead author of The Rational policy-maker’s guide to the [...]