The fight in the UK to save the national health service.
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 [...]Darzi Report: will Government write the wrong prescription?
12 September 2024 @ 12:17 pm
Lord Darzi’s diagnosis shouts out that the NHS desperately needs more funding and that changing the existing model would do more harm than good. Following nine weeks of reviewing data, Lord Darzi has now published [...]Stopping the Rot in Social Care
23 August 2024 @ 12:40 pm
By Gordon PetersGordon Peters argues in this article that Labour must not kick the social care challenge into the long grass. Gordon is a former Director of Social Services in Hackney and a steering group member of [...]‘In house is best’: Solidarity with the ESNEFT strike!
20 August 2024 @ 4:35 pm
Today marks the second of five days of strike action at the East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust. Ancillary workers represented by UNISON at Colchester, Aldeburgh, Harwich and Ipswich hospitals have walked out over [...]