We’ll be fighting for our NHS with our new campaign, Our Vision for a People’s NHS. If you’d like to find out more about what we’ll be doing to take us through to the next election and beyond, have a look at this recording of the meeting for KONP members that lays it out. It’s … Continue reading Learn more about our vision for the People’s NHS
GPs feel the pressure as more people go private
People going private for operations and scans is piling extra pressure on overstretched GP surgeries and squeezing standard care for NHS patients, according to a survey covered in The Guardian newspaper. The article reports that many GPs say that they are increasingly having to interpret questionable health checks done privately, organise blood tests or scans … Continue reading GPs feel the pressure as more people go private
Sign our new petition
Keep Our NHS Public is launching a new campaign to build support for our vision for a People’s NHS. A public NHS for all is the most successful model of health care provision this country has ever had. That’s why we’re asking campaign organisations, trade unions, health care experts, politicians, and most important of all, … Continue reading Sign our new petition
How British aid invested in private hospitals harms the poor
The problems that come with using UK tax payers’ money to fund private health care extend beyond our borders, according to a report from Oxfam, called Sick Development. It reports that development finance institutions owned by European governments and the World Bank Group are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expensive for-profit hospitals in … Continue reading How British aid invested in private hospitals harms the poor
Wes Streeting’s speech: a disappointment for campaigners
The speech from Wes Streeting, Shadow Health and Care Secretary, at the Labour conference was not what health campaigners have been waiting for. It contained significant red flags for those who fight for the re-establishment of an integrated NHS which is universal, publicly funded, publicly delivered and publicly accountable – principles of the NHS model. Jacky Davis, … Continue reading Wes Streeting’s speech: a disappointment for campaigners
End private involvement: fund the NHS to succeed
Keep Our NHS Public (KONP), our national organisation, has sent a message to the Shadow Front Bench: recognise that there is no spare capacity in the private sector that does not further undermine the NHS. Tony O’Sullivan, a retired NHS consultant paediatrician and Co-Chair of KONP, has outlined our vision for the NHS in this … Continue reading End private involvement: fund the NHS to succeed
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