Campaigns
Welcome to ‘Islington Keep Our NHS Public ‘ blog page. Here you will find the latest news, campaigns, articles and petitions that show our efforts to Keep our NHS public.
We asked councillors to say No to Palantir
Councillors on the Joint Health Oversight and Scrutiny Committee (JHOSC) for Islington, Camden, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey have said they will ask our local health trusts and hospitals to review their use of Palantir Technologies products. Palantir is the US Spy tech company that has a contract to supply the NHS with software to bring…
Say No to Palantir in the NHS
Palantir Technologies, the US spy-tech company, currently in the spotlight for helping ICE in the US to target people for deportation, is infiltrating the NHS. The NHS signed a contract with Palantir in 2023 to provide a Federated Data Platform – that is the technology to unify patient records from multiple places across the NHS.…
A birthday message: invest in the NHS, not private companies
Islington Keep Our NHS Public marked the 77th birthday of the NHS with a street stall at Islington’s Angel. Fifty-one people signed postcards telling Keir Starmer to invest in the NHS, not private companies. The NHS is in crisis because of years of underinvestment and we do not believe that Wes Streeting’s 10 Year plan…
Why using private healthcare companies harms the NHS – and us
Private healthcare companies – hands off our doctors! Dealing with the waiting list backlog? Private healthcare companies are being given huge contracts by this Labour government to deal with the waiting list backlog. But is this a self-defeating strategy? Private companies do not train doctors. Where do they get them? From the NHS. Why can’t…
March for the NHS
Join the NHS bloc at the National Demo Against Austerity on 7 June, 2025 in London. Meet at 11:30 at Portland Place/Langham Place. Look for the NHS banner. We’ll be marching to save the NHS, stop the cuts and privatisation. We are calling on the government to listen to the public. Most want an NHS…
Whittington Maternity unit to be upgraded but Royal Free unit will close
The maternity unit at the Whittington Hospital is to be upgraded. This follows a decision by the North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB) on 25 March to accept the recommendations of the Start Well project and focus on providing maternity care at four units: University College London Hospital (UCLH), Barnet Hospital, North Middlesex…
Petition Keir Starmer: Patients not Profit
The NHS is on its knees after well after over a decade of neglect and creeping privatisation from successive governments. The truth is the NHS model is not broken: it just needs to be funded to succeed and restored to its founding principles. The current government’s plan is to expand private involvement in the NHS is…
Keep fighting for our NHS
Islington Keep Our NHS Public (IKONP) braved the rain to join the Patients Not Profit rally outside Parliament on 26 February 2025. We joined other KONP members from around the country to tell Parliament to Invest in the NHS, not private health care. We must keep fighting for a publicly-funded NHS, said the speakers. They…
Islington street stalls back investing in the NHS
Islington Keep Our NHS Public (IKONP) took to the streets on Saturday, 22 February to call on the government to invest in the NHS, not private health care companies. We ran stalls at the Angel and Nags Head shopping centres to distribute leaflets and postcards with a clear message: Invest in the NHS, not the…
Increasing privatisation won’t help the NHS
The government’s plans for the NHS and the increasing role of the private sector won’t solve the problems of the NHS – it will do just the opposite. It will deprive the NHS of much-needed money to recruit staff, buy vital equipment and rebuild crumbling buildings. In this video, John Lister, one of the founders…
IKONP reacts to the health secretary’s plan
Islington Keep Our NHS Public (IKONP) is not ready to stop campaigning to restore our NHS, despite the promises of Wes Streeting, the new health secretary. Member Professor Sue Richards explains why in an article she wrote for the Islington Tribune (25 October, page 11): Brave New World for the NHS – or is it?…
More victories for North London GP surgeries
NHS Commissioners have terminated the contract with Operose, the owner of AT Medics, to run Mitchison Road Surgery in Islington. The NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB) also decided that contracts for five GP practices in Camden operated by AT Medics Ltd will be reprocured over the next 18 months. All GP practices…
Good news for north London GP surgeries
Campaigners have achieved some notable wins on getting GP surgeries in Islington and Haringey out of the hands of large US companies. In Islington it has been announced that the contract for running the Hanley Road Primary Care Centre, one of the original AT Medics’ practices, has gone to the Islington GP Federation. As a…
Health Hustings cancelled
The Health Hustings that Islington Keep our NHS public organised has been cancelled because the Labour and Conservative candidates would not attend. The Green and Liberal Democrat candidates and the Independent, Jeremy Corbyn all accepted. But without the candidates from the two major parties it was decided not to go ahead on 26 June as…
Don’t forget the KONP conference on Saturday 22 June
WHY YOU SHOULD COME TO OUR RESTORE THE PEOPLE’S NHS LONDON CONFERENCE Saturday 22 June, 10am-5pm, 50-52 Camden Square, London NW1 9XB The current government has FAILED in keeping our NHS safe for patients, for staff, and for future generations. This election, it MUST be held accountable for the most woeful decline in NHS services in its entire 75…
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