The fight in the UK to save the national health service.
Spending review 2025 – not yet a turning point for NHS
12 June 2025 @ 9:48 pm
Government would like to present the recent spending review as a turning point in its economic policies, with a round of investment that will stimulate economic growth. Rachel Reeves announced a 3% rise in day [...]Five things to know about NHS SubCos in 2025 and why they should be resisted
22 May 2025 @ 3:35 pm
What is an NHS SubCo? An NHS wholly-owned subsidiary company (SubCo) is a private company, set up by an NHS Foundation Trust (FT) or, less often, by an NHS Trust to which they can transfer [...]Starmer is wrong: the NHS and social care need immigrants to survive
13 May 2025 @ 3:33 pm
On Monday morning, Keir Starmer doubled down on the scapegoating of immigrants, who he claims have caused ‘incalculable’ damage to the UK. Starmer’s desperate pandering to the racist politics of Reform in an attempt to [...]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 [...]