Supporting striking NHS staff


Members of Islington Keep Our NHS Public (IKONP) joined NHS nurses on picket lines and demonstrations around London in December and January. The strikes, calling for fair pay and better conditions for patients, took place at various NHS trusts. Strikers at St Thomas’s on 15 December 2022 (above) drew huge support from passersby. Nurses at … Continue reading Supporting striking NHS staff

RESTRICTIVE SCOPE OF TREATMENTS AVAILABLE TO NHS PATIENTS


Islington Clinical Commissioning Group and the CCGs in the other four boroughs of North Central London voted on 7 March 2019 to restrict the scope of treatments available to NHS patients. This change is called ‘Procedures of Limited Clinical Effectiveness’ but this is a euphemism as many of the treatments being banned are very effective.  … Continue reading RESTRICTIVE SCOPE OF TREATMENTS AVAILABLE TO NHS PATIENTS