Solidarity from Hackney KONP to Unison ESNEFT strikers. We are campaigning with Homerton support staff to insource the service currently outsourced to ISS. Homerton disappointingly announced today that current contract w ISS extended by a year. @HackneyUNISON@HackneyKONP
Our co-chair @DrJohnPuntis 📢
"The choice of Lord Darzi to lead a review suggests direction of travel may be backwards to such failed experiments as polyclinics & independent-sector treatment centres, rather than forward to meet all the present challenges”
https://t.co/SxiAu8xPdc
Our co-chair @DrTonyOSullivan 📢 "Severe shortages of scanners must be remedied quickly, so too the gap in trained key staff, part of the legacy of neglect they inherit. Govt must urgently invest in NHS staff, equiqmt & resources to build for the future"
https://t.co/7kwfJI2xoO
UNISON members from the ESNEFT dispute came and spoke at our 'Restore the People's NHS' conference in June, watch the full video here: https://t.co/ZFNnaQeLU5
Solidarity to the NHS workers in Essex and Suffolk going on strike over their trusts' plans to outsource hundreds of jobs!
The message is clear: staff want their jobs to stay in house @UNISONEastern
https://t.co/aDp4GGbpCR
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🚨 BREAKING: The UK government “failed their citizens" in failing to properly prepare for the Covid-19 pandemic according to the first report from the public inquiry
Our Co-Chair, @DrJohnPuntis spoke to @bcbradio:
"My worry in Streeting saying the NHS is broken is that sort of language was also used by Tories who were saying the NHS *model* was broken...I'd be very worried if by 'broken' Streeting means we should change to a different model"
Our co-chair @DrJohnPuntis:
"Hospitals are facing very challenging finances with many thinking about staffing cuts. Just as for gen practice, increased funding to hospitals is crucial for reducing wait lists & improving public satisfaction with services.”
https://t.co/hRwSdcWhWY
Our co-chair @DrJohnPuntis said:
"Forcing hospitals to become more like businesses has undoubtedly contributed to less patient-focused services. Adequate resourcing is one of the prerequisites for positive culture change.”
https://t.co/jsEHA1mMm3
Labour’s manifesto promises include ‘Delivering a better deal for working people’ in first 100days
Let’s hold them to this:
▪️to end ‘Tories ideological drive to privatise our public services’
▪️review contracts of outsourced public
Read @JohnRLister
https://t.co/5dkVQqdUH9
Our Co-Chair @DrJohnPuntis appeared on @LBCNews to talk about the upcoming NHS investigation:
"The NHS really needs funding above everything else. Reform is not going to cut it and I don't think you could significantly improve the current situation without investment."
How will expansion of physician associates affect patient safety?
Experience with nursing assistants calls for extreme caution, write @rachelg31 and @martinmckee https://t.co/j1WGEsDnPk
Starmer’s NHS “enforcer” to be Alan Milburn? Late of Bridgepoint Capital / Care UK, and of privatisers-in-chief PWC? Architect of Blair’s worst, most corporate-friendly, most money-wasting and frankly dangerous NHS ideas? That Alan Milburn? Oh God. https://t.co/2w7N5PeZhf
@keepnhspublic@EndSCDisgrace Labour’s plans for the NHS will need much more ambition if party is elected to govern the day before NHS 76th birthday https://t.co/8Lp5ZotxVw
Our co-chair @DrTonyOSullivan said:
"KONP will never endorse and is strongly opposed to, private healthcare. We are extremely critical of Labour’s intention to promote the private sector through its intention to use ‘spare capacity’ to ‘help’ the NHS.”
https://t.co/62cd2Cbg6o