Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS Public
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We campaign to keep the NHS free at the point of use & publicly provided, and to end migrant charges in the NHS.
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Funny how there's no extra money for winter planning, but when it comes to sacking frontline clinical staff (yes, you did read that right - it's not JUST admin) they can suddenly find the cash.
Oh, and we ALREADY have 100,000 vacancies.
Utter, utter madness.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/nhs-...
Oh, and we ALREADY have 100,000 vacancies.
Utter, utter madness.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/nhs-...
Thousands of NHS staff face redundancy after £1 billion cost package approved | LBC
The reforms will slash “unnecessary bureaucracy” and raise £1 billion a year by the end of the Parliament to improve services for patients, according to the Department of Health.
www.lbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Funny how there's no extra money for winter planning, but when it comes to sacking frontline clinical staff (yes, you did read that right - it's not JUST admin) they can suddenly find the cash.
Oh, and we ALREADY have 100,000 vacancies.
Utter, utter madness.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/nhs-...
Oh, and we ALREADY have 100,000 vacancies.
Utter, utter madness.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/nhs-...
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Keep in mind these are exactly the people who organised the biggest vaccination programme in British history during the pandemic too.
It's incredible that the story in the headlines today, about Wes Streeting is not that he has finally agreed with the treasury how he is going to sack tens of thousands of nurses at massive expense to the NHS.
news.sky.com/story/thousa...
news.sky.com/story/thousa...
Thousands of NHS staff to be made redundant after funding agreed
The government says the jobs will go in order to slash "unnecessary bureaucracy" and ensure taxpayers' money is being "spent wisely".
news.sky.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Keep in mind these are exactly the people who organised the biggest vaccination programme in British history during the pandemic too.
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If NHS trusts hadn’t had to pay more than £1.8 billion in *interest charges* to private companies, that money could have paid for the starting salaries of over 50,000 NHS doctors 😮🚨
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
If NHS trusts hadn’t had to pay more than £1.8 billion in *interest charges* to private companies, that money could have paid for the starting salaries of over 50,000 NHS doctors 😮🚨
Private healthcare group Nuffield Health has handed back its lease to buildings at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Brilliant news!! Here's us protesting in May 2023 when they first set up there.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
November 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Private healthcare group Nuffield Health has handed back its lease to buildings at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Brilliant news!! Here's us protesting in May 2023 when they first set up there.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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"It makes us feel really vulnerable."
With far right rallies being held across the UK, a group of medics decided it’s time to speak up. Omnya Ahmed joins our latest podcast to talk about the impact of racism in the NHS
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With far right rallies being held across the UK, a group of medics decided it’s time to speak up. Omnya Ahmed joins our latest podcast to talk about the impact of racism in the NHS
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1zS9...
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
November 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"It makes us feel really vulnerable."
With far right rallies being held across the UK, a group of medics decided it’s time to speak up. Omnya Ahmed joins our latest podcast to talk about the impact of racism in the NHS
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1zS9...
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
With far right rallies being held across the UK, a group of medics decided it’s time to speak up. Omnya Ahmed joins our latest podcast to talk about the impact of racism in the NHS
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1zS9...
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
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This is so powerful.
Private healthcare has already contaminated our NHS too much. Don't let it go any further.
vist.ly/4cmrj
#NHS #publicownership
Private healthcare has already contaminated our NHS too much. Don't let it go any further.
vist.ly/4cmrj
#NHS #publicownership
November 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
This is so powerful.
Private healthcare has already contaminated our NHS too much. Don't let it go any further.
vist.ly/4cmrj
#NHS #publicownership
Private healthcare has already contaminated our NHS too much. Don't let it go any further.
vist.ly/4cmrj
#NHS #publicownership
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GP CRISIS
102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons
38,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries
31 million people consult GPs every month & a similar number have haircuts
You can see the problem @wesstreeting @DHSCgovuk
People spend £400pa on hair
GPs receive £169pa per patient
102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons
38,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries
31 million people consult GPs every month & a similar number have haircuts
You can see the problem @wesstreeting @DHSCgovuk
People spend £400pa on hair
GPs receive £169pa per patient
November 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
GP CRISIS
102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons
38,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries
31 million people consult GPs every month & a similar number have haircuts
You can see the problem @wesstreeting @DHSCgovuk
People spend £400pa on hair
GPs receive £169pa per patient
102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons
38,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries
31 million people consult GPs every month & a similar number have haircuts
You can see the problem @wesstreeting @DHSCgovuk
People spend £400pa on hair
GPs receive £169pa per patient
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💷 In just 5 years, NHS trusts spent £3 billion paying off private finance deals.
60% of that — £1.8 billion — went on interest alone. That’s not investment. It’s extraction.
Our NHS deserves better....
Read full report: everydoctor.org.uk/nhs-trusts-t...
60% of that — £1.8 billion — went on interest alone. That’s not investment. It’s extraction.
Our NHS deserves better....
Read full report: everydoctor.org.uk/nhs-trusts-t...
November 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
💷 In just 5 years, NHS trusts spent £3 billion paying off private finance deals.
60% of that — £1.8 billion — went on interest alone. That’s not investment. It’s extraction.
Our NHS deserves better....
Read full report: everydoctor.org.uk/nhs-trusts-t...
60% of that — £1.8 billion — went on interest alone. That’s not investment. It’s extraction.
Our NHS deserves better....
Read full report: everydoctor.org.uk/nhs-trusts-t...
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Unison takes a stand against the betrayal of migrant care workers.
"Unison believes that disrespect and exploitation must not be tolerated."
unsn.uk/4oEaRhO
"Unison believes that disrespect and exploitation must not be tolerated."
unsn.uk/4oEaRhO
October 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Unison takes a stand against the betrayal of migrant care workers.
"Unison believes that disrespect and exploitation must not be tolerated."
unsn.uk/4oEaRhO
"Unison believes that disrespect and exploitation must not be tolerated."
unsn.uk/4oEaRhO
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More wreckage from 14 years of Tory rule
Hundreds of hospice beds and staff cut in England amid funding crisis
National Audit Office reports nearly two-thirds of independent hospices in deficit in 2023-24 as demand increases www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Hundreds of hospice beds and staff cut in England amid funding crisis
National Audit Office reports nearly two-thirds of independent hospices in deficit in 2023-24 as demand increases www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Hundreds of hospice beds and staff cut in England amid funding crisis
National Audit Office reports nearly two-thirds of independent hospices in deficit in 2023-24 as demand increases
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
More wreckage from 14 years of Tory rule
Hundreds of hospice beds and staff cut in England amid funding crisis
National Audit Office reports nearly two-thirds of independent hospices in deficit in 2023-24 as demand increases www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Hundreds of hospice beds and staff cut in England amid funding crisis
National Audit Office reports nearly two-thirds of independent hospices in deficit in 2023-24 as demand increases www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
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Inspiring to join people of all faiths and none in Whitechapel today to keep the far right out of the East End.
We had a simple message to anyone trying to divide our community: jog on and get lost.
We had a simple message to anyone trying to divide our community: jog on and get lost.
October 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Inspiring to join people of all faiths and none in Whitechapel today to keep the far right out of the East End.
We had a simple message to anyone trying to divide our community: jog on and get lost.
We had a simple message to anyone trying to divide our community: jog on and get lost.
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If you know as we do, that you're far more likely to be treated by a migrant than stood behind one in a queue - then why not attend our exciting event next month?
Migrants are NOT TO BLAME for the NHS crisis - the reasons for that sit squarely with successive govts.
Tickets:
bit.ly/MigrantsNotT...
Migrants are NOT TO BLAME for the NHS crisis - the reasons for that sit squarely with successive govts.
Tickets:
bit.ly/MigrantsNotT...
October 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
If you know as we do, that you're far more likely to be treated by a migrant than stood behind one in a queue - then why not attend our exciting event next month?
Migrants are NOT TO BLAME for the NHS crisis - the reasons for that sit squarely with successive govts.
Tickets:
bit.ly/MigrantsNotT...
Migrants are NOT TO BLAME for the NHS crisis - the reasons for that sit squarely with successive govts.
Tickets:
bit.ly/MigrantsNotT...
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If the general public understood that resident doctors are simply asking for £22ph and for jobs to be available for them to specialise in - instead of having cost the taxpayer £250k to then have to drive Ubers and leave wards hideously short staffed - the govt would lose the argument overnight.
October 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If the general public understood that resident doctors are simply asking for £22ph and for jobs to be available for them to specialise in - instead of having cost the taxpayer £250k to then have to drive Ubers and leave wards hideously short staffed - the govt would lose the argument overnight.
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Join us in London next month to network and learn more about how you can make a real difference to GP services in your local area.
Register for FREE, here 👇👇
keepournhspublic.com/event/primar...
Register for FREE, here 👇👇
keepournhspublic.com/event/primar...
October 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Join us in London next month to network and learn more about how you can make a real difference to GP services in your local area.
Register for FREE, here 👇👇
keepournhspublic.com/event/primar...
Register for FREE, here 👇👇
keepournhspublic.com/event/primar...
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A new piece on our site, by Emet Sachin, exposes how
NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) is being undermined by ‘gainshare’ contracts, where private firms profit by cutting care for the most vulnerable.
This is not efficiency. It’s exploitation.
Read here 👇
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NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) is being undermined by ‘gainshare’ contracts, where private firms profit by cutting care for the most vulnerable.
This is not efficiency. It’s exploitation.
Read here 👇
keepournhspublic.com/profiting-fr...
Profiting from cutting people's vital healthcare
Sometimes we publish pieces submitted by KONP members or supporters on topics that we think are important to draw to the attention of campaigners. This one is by Emet Sachin, who has investigated the ...
keepournhspublic.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
A new piece on our site, by Emet Sachin, exposes how
NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) is being undermined by ‘gainshare’ contracts, where private firms profit by cutting care for the most vulnerable.
This is not efficiency. It’s exploitation.
Read here 👇
keepournhspublic.com/profiting-fr...
NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) is being undermined by ‘gainshare’ contracts, where private firms profit by cutting care for the most vulnerable.
This is not efficiency. It’s exploitation.
Read here 👇
keepournhspublic.com/profiting-fr...
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Why does the NHS keep costing more?
1950 life expectancy was 69yrs it’s now 83yrs
14 more years of experience, living, grandchildren
14yrs of more costs £3600/person/year
5.6million people over 70yrs £20bn/pa
It costs to keep people alive with prevention, treatments, medicine
1950 life expectancy was 69yrs it’s now 83yrs
14 more years of experience, living, grandchildren
14yrs of more costs £3600/person/year
5.6million people over 70yrs £20bn/pa
It costs to keep people alive with prevention, treatments, medicine
October 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Why does the NHS keep costing more?
1950 life expectancy was 69yrs it’s now 83yrs
14 more years of experience, living, grandchildren
14yrs of more costs £3600/person/year
5.6million people over 70yrs £20bn/pa
It costs to keep people alive with prevention, treatments, medicine
1950 life expectancy was 69yrs it’s now 83yrs
14 more years of experience, living, grandchildren
14yrs of more costs £3600/person/year
5.6million people over 70yrs £20bn/pa
It costs to keep people alive with prevention, treatments, medicine
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We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.
I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
October 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.
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Worrying signs the govt could cave to Big Pharma 💰
Paying more for medicines won’t “boost innovation”, it’ll just boost pharma profits while the NHS struggles to afford care.
Strong piece from @justtreatment.org with Politico 👇
justtreatment.org/news/2025/10...
Paying more for medicines won’t “boost innovation”, it’ll just boost pharma profits while the NHS struggles to afford care.
Strong piece from @justtreatment.org with Politico 👇
justtreatment.org/news/2025/10...
UK move to inflate pharma profits threatens NHS — Just Treatment
Statement in response to reports the government plans to raise NHS drug price limits — a move that risks importing America’s drug pricing crisis and putting profits before patients.
justtreatment.org
October 9, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Worrying signs the govt could cave to Big Pharma 💰
Paying more for medicines won’t “boost innovation”, it’ll just boost pharma profits while the NHS struggles to afford care.
Strong piece from @justtreatment.org with Politico 👇
justtreatment.org/news/2025/10...
Paying more for medicines won’t “boost innovation”, it’ll just boost pharma profits while the NHS struggles to afford care.
Strong piece from @justtreatment.org with Politico 👇
justtreatment.org/news/2025/10...
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Our political response to the #NHS 10 Year Plan is below.
"While some ideas, if effectively delivered, would garner our support, we are deeply concerned that the dominant strands being advanced rely heavily on privatisation and unrealistic technological promises."
More here: 👇
"While some ideas, if effectively delivered, would garner our support, we are deeply concerned that the dominant strands being advanced rely heavily on privatisation and unrealistic technological promises."
More here: 👇
Doctors in Unite
Standing up for doctors. Fighting for the NHS.
drs-in.unitetheunion.org
October 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Our political response to the #NHS 10 Year Plan is below.
"While some ideas, if effectively delivered, would garner our support, we are deeply concerned that the dominant strands being advanced rely heavily on privatisation and unrealistic technological promises."
More here: 👇
"While some ideas, if effectively delivered, would garner our support, we are deeply concerned that the dominant strands being advanced rely heavily on privatisation and unrealistic technological promises."
More here: 👇
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Wes Streeting‘s quote yesterday was “if it‘s good enough for Southampton why isn’t it happening everywhere”,
which struck me at the time as an utterly inane thing to say about a pilot project, turns out I was right….
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(“Online hospitals” 🙄)
which struck me at the time as an utterly inane thing to say about a pilot project, turns out I was right….
👇
(“Online hospitals” 🙄)
The pilot that this is based on at Southampton is really small and specific (IBS). Everytime my elderly mother has rung 111 and been triaged, ambulance service tells her to physically go to that very hospital. A&E always full. I can't see how we get from there to an online hospital by 2027?
October 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Wes Streeting‘s quote yesterday was “if it‘s good enough for Southampton why isn’t it happening everywhere”,
which struck me at the time as an utterly inane thing to say about a pilot project, turns out I was right….
👇
(“Online hospitals” 🙄)
which struck me at the time as an utterly inane thing to say about a pilot project, turns out I was right….
👇
(“Online hospitals” 🙄)