The fight in the UK to save the national health service.
Funding the NHS: a plain English guide to money and affordability
2 April 2024 @ 2:45 pm
This article is from Gavin Barker from End Westminster Rule However laudable the aspiration for a publicly funded NHS, whatever the scale of public support, ultimately everything boils down to money – or lack of. [...]NHS organisations offered ‘rewards’ for trading our health data with private companies
2 April 2024 @ 11:55 am
It’s not widely known but NHS organisations such as GP practices and Trusts are being pushed to set up Data Sharing Partnerships (DSPs) to ‘realise the benefits of the data assets they hold’ and trade [...]REVIEW: ‘NYE’ One man’s dreams of the NHS
14 March 2024 @ 10:11 am
Nye, a new play by Tim Price at the National Theatre until 11th May (and in cinemas around the country from April), should make us proud, then angry – and finally mobilise us to defend [...]Restore the People’s NHS Day of Action 9 March
13 March 2024 @ 1:27 pm
On Saturday, March 9th, NHS staff and campaigners from Keep Our NHS Public took part in 20 events across England to mark a national ‘Day of Action’. These emergency protests were called to draw public attention to [...]Budget offers no solution to NHS crisis
8 March 2024 @ 5:31 pm
Keep Our NHS Public Press Officer Samantha Wathen explains why Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s budget is mere smoke and mirrors. On first glance Wednesday’s Spring Budget may have seemed positive for the NHS. A total of [...]Are Physician Associates a threat to NHS General Practice?
28 February 2024 @ 4:03 pm
At a time of chronic underfunding, GP shortages, escalating workload, and privatisation, the unregulated, under-supervised and under-supported employment of physician associates (PAs) in primary care, resulting in diagnosis and treatment delays, sometimes with fatal consequences, [...]New report on huge profits raked in by five of UK’s top healthcare privateers
21 February 2024 @ 4:26 pm
A new report reveals huge profits raked in by five of the UK’s top healthcare privateers. The report is written by friends of Keep Our NHS Public, Corporate Watch. It was released earlier this week [...]Labour’s mission for healthcare won’t make the NHS fit for the future
5 February 2024 @ 4:39 pm
‘Labour’s third mission in government will be to: Build an NHS fit for the future: that is there when people need it; with fewer lives lost to the biggest killers; in a fairer Britain, where [...]Junior doctors strike – it’s not just about pay
31 January 2024 @ 1:41 pm
John Puntis is a retired consultant paediatrician and is Co-Chair of Keep Our NHS Public It’s not just about pay There are many reasons for junior doctors to be disaffected besides the 35% loss of [...]General Practice for sale – again
19 January 2024 @ 11:23 am
Brenda Allan, KONP Primary Care Working GroupMore information Background In August 2023, Operose/Centene announced plans to sell its operations in the UK, because they were not profitable, despite being paid 14% more per patient than AT Medics, from whom [...]