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. … Continue reading Say No to Palantir in the 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 … Continue reading Whittington Maternity unit to be upgraded but Royal Free unit will close
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 … Continue reading Petition Keir Starmer: Patients not Profit
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 … Continue reading Keep fighting for our NHS
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? … Continue reading IKONP reacts to the health secretary’s plan
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 … Continue reading More victories for North London GP surgeries
