Across England NHS patients and local communities have been linking up with nurses, doctors and other health care workers to meet, march, protest and lobby as they fight to stop further closures and cuts in local NHS services. Beds, wards and even whole hospitals are closing down. Thousands of health workers' jobs are being axed.
But alongside the cuts, an unprecedented process of privatisation is under way: vital services and precious NHS resources are being handed over to the private sector, including companies run for profit for shareholders here and overseas. Now is the time to fight back to Keep Our NHS Public!
The campaign was launched in September 2005 and has won the backing of hundreds of senior doctors, academics, health workers and trade union leaders, celebrities, MPs and local campaigners for its launch statement. Now we are inviting all those who support our appeal to JOIN Keep Our NHS Public, and to work with us to build local broad-based campaigns that can stop and roll back the juggernaut of a government policy that is wrecking our NHS.
We campaign for our aims and principles. Chief amongst these:
- To inform the public and the media what is happening as a result of the Government's "reform" programme.
- To build a broadly based non-party political campaign to prevent further fragmentation and privatisation of the NHS.
- To keep our NHS Public. This means funded from taxation, free at the point of use, and provided as a public service by people employed in the NHS and accountable to the public and Parliament.
- To call for a public debate about the future of the NHS and to halt the further use of the private sector until such a debate is had.
BMA Open meeting
on the threats to the NHS in London
7-9 pm, 25th February 2010The Great Hall, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London
This meeting aims to:
- Discuss the report "London on the Brink"
- Give an opportunity to share information about the changes proposed across the capital
- Enable BMA members to meet with other NHS Unions and NHS Campaigners to widen the BMA "Look after our NHS" campaign
Essential Reading
Johnathon Tomlinson's article Patients not Profits; the NHS and Corporate Healthcare - a GP's view of how the big corporations dehumanise health care.More articles on Primary Care and other key issues can be found in Policy Briefings.
Bookshelf
Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism
Edited by Leo Panitch and Colin LeysA survey of the political economy of health.
Special Offer: Special price to KONP members of £12 inc p&p compared with £15.99 in the shops.
For further information see our Bookshelf page.
Make a donation
If we are going to halt and reverse the government's rapid march towards privatisation and marketisation of the NHS, we need resources to enable us to reach out to the large number of individuals and organisations who should also be aware of the issues at stake and involved in the campaign.Your support is crucial! We rely on the donations of NHS supporters to fund this campaign. Please help if you can - click here to make a donation.
Essential reading from Stewart Player and Colin Leys
Details in Bookshelf
Conference videos
Condition Critical:
Health Care, Marketising Reforms and the Media
Held at Coventry University
June 17-20
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