Tag: London

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]