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FeaturedSOS NHS: national demo on 11 March
End the NHS crisis: support the strikes! Join the march on Saturday 11 March to stand with NHS staff who are taking strike action and send a message to the government to negotiate now! When: 12 noon, Saturday 11 March 2023. Where: Meet opposite Warren Street Tube station, Tottenham Court Road then march to Westminster… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
There’s less than 24 hours left before trainee nurse Emily delivers this open letter to the Department for Health.
Please triple your impact by getting three more people to add their names today:
Here is an extract of the letter
“I face relentless hours, department cuts and exhaustion everyday at my hospital. There’s a gap of 42,000 nursing jobs in England that are unfilled ……..
Hospitals like mine are on their knees. And it’s no surprise, since nursing bursaries were ended in 2015, applications to be a nurse have dropped by a third. Now if you want to be a nurse, you have to face up to £50,000 in student debt.
“Bringing back nursing bursaries will bring thousands more people back to nursing. It would help the NHS survive and keep our patients safer.”
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Stop further cuts on disabled & older patients! Click here to read our letter to The Tribune
LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE NHS IN ISLINGTON
Islington Keep Our NHS Public organised a public meeting on 11 March 2019 at the Islington Town hall to help locals to learn more about what is happening to the NHS in Islington. Read more about the meeting from links to local newspaper coverage by the Islington Gazette and the Islington Tribune.
Islington pharmacists are running short of drugs, read more about it here.
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. In particular, this change will make it more difficult to get hip and knee replacement surgery and also cataract surgery. This is clearly a cost-cutting exercise and it will hit people who cannot afford to go private. Read more about it here.
For more information, here is an external link to further reading.
Click here to learn more and participate in a petition to the Islington Clinical Commissioning Group
STOP THE SUSTAINABILITY AND TRANSFORMATION PLANS
The Government tried to turn the NHS into a privatised market, wasting £5bn a year, but has now abandoned that strategy and imposed a centralised plan, the Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) to remove £22bn a year from the budget, about 20% (Please note, it has not repealed the 2012 Health and Social Care Act so may return to privatisation at any time.)
‘FOOTPRINTS’ – SECRET PLANS
Each of 44 areas (‘footprints’) has been required to plan in secret, with no public involvement, to remove this money. We already spend less as a proportion of GDP than comparable countries in Europe – at least 1%, which amounts to £20bn per year.
Only now are these plans surfacing across the country. In our footprint, which includes Camden, Haringey, Enfield and Barnet as well as Islington by the year 2020 we are meant to make cuts of £900m.
Read the plan and our critique here
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Write to Theresa May at 10 Downing St to tell her we need to spend the European average proportion of GDP on the NHS. ee our template letter.
Please adapt the wording and write it out by hand to ensure it gets read.
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