NHS Threats

Policy failure Richard Horton, editor of the prestigious medical journal ‘The Lancet’, described the management of COVID-19 as the “greatest science policy failure for a generation” in his book on the pandemic. Currently the numbers of newly diagnosed patients are steeply rising with many wondering if the government has completely lost its grip. So –….

A timely and shocking report compiled by ‘Amnesty International’ opens with the stark figure of 3000 health workers losing their lives due to the global COVID-19 pandemic up to the time of writing, with a warning that this figure: (more…)

Keep Our NHS Public and Health Campaigns Together are supporting a series of protests for Saturday 8 August, over the government’s refusal to include NHS workers in any pay increase deal this year, despite the massive sacrifices made during the pandemic. Please join your local meeting if you can: (more…)

On 21st May, the UK Government scrapped the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) for migrant NHS staff and care workers – a fee which migrant workers must pay in order to access the NHS, in addition to ever-increasing Tier 2 work visafees [1]. This exemption was sorely needed and long fought for, particularly since the government….

The weekend of 4th and 5th July will be the 72nd anniversary of the founding of our NHS, and we are joining Keep Our NHS Public, Health Campaigns Together, People’s Assembly and We Own It, in calling a weekend of events to wish our NHS a happy birthday and demand its restoration as a well-funded, universal public service available to all. KONP are also….

This NHS anniversary weekend Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th July, Keep Our NHS Public and Health Campaigns Together are calling for nationwide local events and a national online rally on Sunday 5th July at 4:30 PM to say, ‘Our NHS deserves better’. (more…)

Political campaigning group We Own It are calling on the public to sign a petition demanding that Serco has its contract for track and trace of Covid cases removed, in the light of grave doubts about its performance. Sign here.

38 Degrees are calling for people to sign their latest petition, on the way migrants are being treated and left without healthcare despite the pandemic. Sign up here.

A campaign by front-line doctors to secure better PPE mounted a protest at Downing Street during the last ‘Clap for Carers’ applause (Thursday 28 May). Doctors for the NHS supports their campaign.  (more…)

Clearing the decks in hospitals, in order to respond to the first wave of patients with Covid-19, has avoided the desperate scenes that were seen in hospitals in the north of Italy and in New York City, but has come at a cost. (more…)