Health Campaigns Together

The trade union-facing alliance in @keepnhspublic campaigning for #NHS, against cuts, closures & privatisation, in solidarity with NHS patients & staff

[Keep Our NHS Public @keepnhspublic]

Week 4: Tue & Wed 12.15-13.30
Rally at Dept of Health & Social Care, 39 Victoria St, London SW1
- all welcome

KONP has been outside DHSC every Tue & Wed in August to call on the Govt to end the contract
Joined by @We_OwnIt @AndrewMeyerson, KONP groups and allies

[Dr Tony O’Sullivan @DrTonyOSullivan]

Thursday @UniteinHealth members working in mental health at the @NHS_ELFT held midday rallies against 330 job cuts and £25m this year after £70m cuts the two previous years. 1000s of job losses are happening now and threatened across London’s NHS trusts and across the country. At the same time the Govt has announced 159 mental health hubs and emergency centres but no staffing plan. These cuts are in the face of huge waiting times for 1.6 million people waiting for a health appointment. So important that union members are standing up and demanding safe staffing and finding for NHS services.
#mentalhealth @UniteLondonEast @keepnhspublic

[Dr Tony O’Sullivan @DrTonyOSullivan]

Today @unitetheunion members working in mental health at @NHS_ELFT hold midday rallies against 330 job cuts = £25m this year after £70m cuts the teo previous years
@keepnhspublic

https://t.co/4VguahWHHM

[Rathi Guhadasan @rathisochealth]

Labour’s health policy doesn’t pass the Makerfield Test - but it could…

Find out more in my article on behalf of @SocialistHealth

https://t.co/3hpQAhJ1yR

@LabourOutlook

[Keep Our NHS Public @keepnhspublic]

Our Co-Chair, @DrTonyOSullivan, spoke to BBC 3 Counties Radio on a prime time slot this morning about the huge round of mental health job cuts at East London Foundation Trust.

Listen to his important interview in full here:

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

GP practices provided 35,000,000 appointments in June 50% more than 2019

Sadly too many in the media ignore this

Many commentators refuse to accept the truth

In the end GP practices will close, GPs leave & GPs will be blamed despite doing more for less year on year

[Keep Our NHS Public @keepnhspublic]

Our Co-Chair @DrTonyOSullivan said:

"The screaming contradiction is that while NHS funding for its own trusts is so limited that ELFT has to make £25m cuts, govt are happy to hand £2.5bn to private firms to expand their capacity to treat NHS patients.”
https://t.co/UfMmwlJsKW

[Minh Alexander minhalexander.bsky.social @alexander_minh]

North London NHS Foundation Trust misled coroner about MH observations on a secure ward

CCTV footage contradicted staff evidence

Coroner warned trust of perjury risk:

https://t.co/djuejaEX0m

https://t.co/fURiBjmbOt

[Keep Our NHS Public @keepnhspublic]

Our Co-Chair @DrTonyOSullivan said:

“This is a perfect storm where key areas of the NHS are being outsourced to private corporations, putting strategic control of our NHS into the hands of US major tech and hedge funds."

https://t.co/Q0eAJFu6zJ

[Dr Tony O’Sullivan @DrTonyOSullivan]

‘Not the NHS again’
US, Big Pharma & UK Govt complicit in failing the NHS and all of us
The drug deal costs £45bn & risks 229k lives by 2036. We’ve no idea how profoundly Big Pharma politics influence the cost of medicines & our lives
Full podcast here:
https://t.co/DyJrvvjNuJ

[Dr Tony O’Sullivan @DrTonyOSullivan]

Policy commitments the NHS needs urgently from @andyburnham’s govt
👉🏼Recommit to the NHS as a publicly funded, publicly provided and publicly accountable service
👉🏼Treat public services as national investment, not a drain on public finances
👉🏼Address urgent and emergency care as a national safety priority
👉🏼Set a new ethical standard for public contracts and private sector involvement
👉🏼Commit to visible progress on social care before the next General Election

[Dr Steve Taylor @DrSteveTaylor]

Where’s the money? Can we afford the NHS?

Most discussions about the NHS focus on how to squeeze more money out of a system labeled as a "bottomless pit." But what if we've been asking the wrong questions? Debunking myths, full episode👇🏼
https://t.co/sdMjx3mLbF

[Keep Our NHS Public @keepnhspublic]

Our latest podcast - ran jointly with @TheDA_UK and hosted by @DrSteveTaylor is live - and it's one you won't want to miss.

Former bond trader, Vince Gomez, explains how the 'bottomless pit' argument is irrelevant, and how we really can afford our NHS.

https://t.co/lXt6E8JIj5

[Keep Our NHS Public @keepnhspublic]

Our co-chairs @DrTonyOSullivan & @DrJohnPuntis write for @LeftFootFwd

"For too long, our NHS has been treated as an aberration to be corrected by neoliberals in both the private sector and in govt. We need a new approach..."
https://t.co/7Xct7cmrf1

[Keep Our NHS Public @keepnhspublic]

Tune into our latest podcast jointly run with @TheDA_UK Labour’s 2nd year report - Could do a lot better!
The hard truths behind waiting lists, private sector profiteering & the urgent need for genuine funding.

With @rathisochealth from @SocialistHealth
https://t.co/rhWs0rHjOJ

[Keep Our NHS Public @keepnhspublic]

Have you listened to our weekly NHS podcast yet?

Jointly run with @TheDA_UK and @DrSteveTaylor - this episode dives into the Health Bill, single patient records and the end of NHS England.

Subscribe to never miss an episode!
https://t.co/TESESvvaA0

[Dr Tony O’Sullivan @DrTonyOSullivan]

❗️305 avoidable deaths every week
❗️equivalent to a jumbo jet crashing every week

This national health emergency was Streeting’s legacy, tho he claimed his job was done. Marginally lower waiting lists are down to ‘validation’ and ‘data scraping’ - deaths continue.
🙈Streeting chose to ignore years of validated shocking data from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine on avoidable deaths caused by delayed access to urgent treatment.
🔍We cannot allow the new Health Sec to ignore this - urgent action is needed now
@keepnhspublic @TheDA_UK @EveryDoctorUK @JustTreatment @RCollEM

[Margaret Greenwood @MGreenwoodWW]

Ask your MP to sign EDM 329 tabled by @IanByrneMP to ensure the future of general practice in England as a comprehensive service available to all free at the point of need. No to NHS privatisation.https://t.co/veNnn6NX0W

[Keep Our NHS Public @keepnhspublic]

Staff at the Institute for Cancer Research have gone on strike over poor pay and working conditions. They're demanding a 16% pay rise to make up for their real-terms pay cut since 2019, proper access to pension schemes and that staff at their Sutton site be provided proper access to food and eating space.

KONP were proud to join today's strike rally in Kensington, and urge people to send messages of support!

[Dr Tony O’Sullivan @DrTonyOSullivan]

‘Fine words’
‘It cannot be right that private companies make huge profits from the care of vulnerable people’
- Angela Rayner 2021
Completely unacceptable that some companies [make] 30% profit on placing children’
- Bridget Phillipson 2024
What must change:
❗️84% of places are run for profit (cf.5% in France)
❗️average yearly charge by private providers for a child in ‘care’ is £384,020 - x6 what Eton charges
❗️private care homes have employed ppl with convictions for violence
❗️children are unsafe, even sexually assaulted

https://t.co/Q248G6IZJG