NB the articles and information gathered in this section represent the views of the authors, but may not necessarily represent the views of all supporters and signatories of the Keep Our NHS Public campaign.
Polyclinics
- Wendy Savage - Restructuring the NHS - Finsbury Health Centre's demise
Letter to the BMJ
Centre for International Public Health Policy
- Allyson Pollock - Primary Care Briefing
Response to the Scottish Government's consultation on changes to eligibility criteria for providers of primary medical services - Allyson Pollock - Farewell to a free NHS The Guardian July 2008
NHS Top-ups
- Jacky Davis - Response to the consultation on the draft guidance on NHS patients who wish to pay for additional private care. Prepared on behalf of Keep our NHS Public by Dr Jacky Davis, an NHS consultant radiologist, and agreed by the Steering Committee.
Presentations
These powerpoint slide presentations can be used to construct your own talks and updated to include the latest information. These are from lectures given by Wendy Savage on the dates cited.- Unite Public Sector Conference, 4th December 2008
- Croydon, 5th June 2008
- Harlow, 21st September 2006
Public Involvement
- Ursula Pearce - Public Consultation in the NHS. This document reviews the legal duties on health service bodies to involve and consult with Local Authority Committees, patients and the public before they take decisions affecting the provision of health services.
Primary Care
- Johnathon Tomlinson - Patients not Profits; the NHS and Corporate Healthcare
- Stewart Player - Access to NHS Primary Care - for Patients or Business?
- Leaflet on Lanarkshire Health Board's decision to put Harthill GP surgery out to tender, the first example of its kind in Scotland
- Dr Elizabeth Barrett - Privatising primary care: a personal account
- Ron Singer - Threats and worries about Primary Care
Darzi
- Statement by Keep Our NHS Public in response to the reviews of the NHS by Lord Darzi Click here to download a free copy
UNISON Policy Briefing
- UNISON - In the Interests of Patients? Examining the impact of the creation of a competitive commercial market in the provision of NHS Care.
Responses to Labour's Crisis on Health
- Article - How Labour Can Win on Health from the Spring 2008 Fabian Review, by Dr Neil Goulbourne.
Privatisation
- Statement: England needs more GPs and more nurses not shareholders and profiteers
- Patchwork Privatisation: A Users' Guide - executive summary
You can download the full 25-page booklet, or order a printed copy by post from Campaign Resources (item 5).
The Case Against Independent Sector Treatment Centres
- Confuse & Conceal - The NHS and Independent Sector Treatment Centres, by Stewart Player and Colin Leys. Buy here at reduced price
- Update on the Scottish Regional Treatment Centre (SRTC) project at Stracathro Hospital The Result of the Freedom of Information Request
- The first Independent Sector Treatment Centre in Scotland - and perhaps the last (concise version)
- The first Independent Sector Treatment Centre in Scotland - and perhaps the last (full version)
- ISTC consultation leaflet - challenge Private Treatment Centres in your area
- Case study: How an ISTC is damaging an Oxfordshire hospital
- Oxford Eye Hospital scandal: a former PCT member analyses what went wrong (Jane Hanna)
- Operating for Profits (Briefing from UNISON Positively Public campaign, September 2005)
Fighting Cuts and Closures
- David Byrne and Sally Ruane - The Case for Hospital Reconfiguration - not Proven: A Response to the IPPR's The Future Hospital
- Caught In the Crossfire: a UNISON-commissioned detailed response to plans to run down services at Huntingdon's Hinchingbrooke Hospital, researched by John Lister of London Health Emergency
- Cuts Compendium: An NHS Burning and in Chaos
Press Releases
- Six weeks to save the NHS from new, flawed "reforms"
- Valentine's Day protests as campaigners say 'We love the NHS'
- Doctor tells MPs: top-up fees for expensive drugs mean two-tier NHS
- Architect criticises PFI plans for new hospital
- Cancer drug consultation flawed, say campaigners
- NHS 60th birthday protest over increasing privatisation
- Brown's NHS privatisation program will hurt Labour, campaigners warn
- Brown reforms and Darzi review 'incompatible', warn campaigners
- SICKO - model local press release
- Brown's dramatic health policy: 'no change'
- MPs and campaigners demand radical shift in health policy from Brown on NHS birthday
- New health secretary Alan Johnson must act on concerns he expressed in deputy leadership campaign
- Government's case for hospital closures may be based on 'dodgy dossier'
- Campaigners warn Blair not to play personal politics with the NHS
- Questions Over Hewitt's Role in Privatised NHS Plan
- Private earnings balloon as 'patchwork privatisation' of NHS takes hold
- Study shows PFI expansion will prove costly for patient care
- NHS campaigners from around the country descend on London for Westminster march
- NHS STRIKE: US health supplier in UK says British government is dealing with a "criminal organisation"
- Privatisation is the Cause of NHS Cuts - KONP response to Patricia Hewitt's speech to the IPPR
- Pensioner Wins GP Privatisation Battle at Court of Appeal
- NHS Privatisation by Stealth, Take Two
- Kent County Crisis: NHS torn apart by cuts and privatisation
- BMA votes for outright opposition to NHS market reforms
- Greater Manchester PCT Chair slams NHS reforms
- Pensioner boosts patient power in High Court
- Pensioner takes on NHS trust over family doctor surgery
- Rising tide of opposition to NHS reforms
- 'Big bang' creation of new NHS market due 1 April - Dobson supports call for suspension of NHS reforms
- Judicial review against UnitedHealth GP take over
National Campaigners' Conference
On 20 January 2007 the NHS Support Federation organised a national campaigners' conference for the Keep Our NHS Public campaign. See the conference report and the conference speeches given by Jacky Davis and Sally Ruane.Overview
- David Byrne and Sally Ruane - The Case for Hospital Reconfiguration - not Proven: A Response to the IPPR's The Future Hospital
- Mark Hellowell and Professor Allyson Pollock - The costs of PFI to the Scottish NHS
- Sally Ruane - Independent Sector Treatment Centres - from Health Matters Autumn 2006
- UNISON - In the Interests of Patients? Examining the impact of the creation of a competitive commercial market in the provision of NHS Care
- UNISON Factsheet - Private Sector in NHS Health Care
- Allyson Pollock - 60 years on from the National Health Service Bill
- Jacky Davis - As doctors, we see the cancer that eats away at the NHS
- John Lister - The reinvention of failure
Critique
Our response to misleading alternatives publicised recently.Articles from Red Pepper Health Special
- Martin McIvor Why market reform is bad for your health
- Colin Leys Not Safe in their hands - New Labour's demolition of the National Health Service
- Frank Dobson If it isn't broke ...
- Alex Nunns Derbyshire goes private - UnitedHealth in Derbyshire
- John Lister Simon Stevens and his amazing dancing balance sheet
- Ian Gibson Stop the rot
American Health Care Model
- Practices in Health Care and Disability Insurance: Delay, Diminish, Deny, and Blame: A ten-month study concerning health and disability insurance industry practices has just been released. The study was conducted by researchers at Sonoma State University in Northern California.
- The government is privatising NHS Logistics, the not-for-profit medical supplies and distribution service. Novation, the American company set to take on the £4bn contract is under investigation by the US Justice Department for questionable practices which have hugely inflated costs. Visit Stop GPO Kickbacks, an American campaign highlighting the issues.
- Gaps in Health Insurance: An All-American Problem
- Letter from America
- Article on American HMOs
UnitedHealth
Netcare
Serco
Autumn 2005 Reorganisation: 'Commissioning a Patient-led NHS'
- Nigel Crisps's July 28 circular
- NHS Alliance criticises reforms
- John Carvel's Guardian article - Feeling the pressure
- TUC Emergency motion opposes privatisation and marketisation
- Royal College of Nursing - Response to Commissioning a Patient-Led NHS
Our Principles
- Keep Our NHS Public's submission to the Parliamentary Labour Party health committee on the role and limitations of markets in the NHS (submitted December 05)
- Prof Colin Leys - The end of freedom from fear? : text of Paul Noone lecture at the National Health Consultants Association Conference on 8th October
- Allyson Pollock - A Guide to the Reforms
- What's good about the NHS and why it matters who provides the service
UNISON pamphlet, 2002
- The Private Finance Initiative
John Lister sums up reasons why PFI represents a rotten deal for the NHS
- Bart's & the London PFI letter - the Guardian, 2 January 2006
- Peter Draper - Against commercialisation of health care
- Peter Draper - Salvation or sabotage? What’s happening to the NHS? (from Buzz - the magazine of the Highgate Society, reproduced here by permisssion of its editor)
- Julian Tudor Hart and Alex Scott-Samuel - What would we do instead?
Public Opinion Hardens Against Privatisation
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(21/06/05) An overwhelming 89% of the public agree that "public services should be run by the government or local authorities, rather than by private companies", according to a YouGov poll released by UNISON at the start of its annual conference.
- Download full YouGov survey results (Excel spreadsheet)
Foundation Trusts
In Place of Bevan?Briefing on the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill 2003
Allyson Pollock and David Price
Public Health Policy Unit, University College London
Published in association with The Society for Social Medicine and the NHS Consultations Association
A Catalyst Briefing Paper. Published: July 2003
Dentistry
- Dentistry Overview: A briefing note on NHS dentistry