Briefings and publications archive




Keep Our NHS Public press release 4 July 2007 - Brown's dramatic health policy: 'no change'



See the local KONP group's latest campaigning leaflet.

Steering committee decisions:
Meeting planned with editor of BMJ about report and advertising
Updated campaign leaflet and new poster in design
Stall planned for Unison health conference 22-24 April
Distribute Patchwork Privatisation to MPs and Lords
Distribute new KONP statement to MPs and Lords
Draft letter to Gordon Brown protesting at private diagnostic centres
Encourage local KONP groups to participate in May Day marches
Support next junior doctors' event
Support national march planned for October
Organise central London public meeting for 7th June

Steering committee decisions:
Approach to BMJ about report and advertising
Update general leaflet
Circulate minutes and agendas to local groups
Circulate suggested responses to "Big Ask"
Investigate cost of local  press advertising
Draw up proposals for amendments to constitution to ensure involvement of local groups
Draft new poster aimed at unifying KONP and local cuts campaigns groups
Contact  regions conveying successful challenge on ICATS in North West
Plans for new publication on the “personal budget” proposal
Draft letter to Brendan Barber re proposal for a national demonstration in London circa 14th July
Distribute Patchwork Privatisation to MPs
Amended KONP statement to be circulated to Steering Committee for comments

Keep Our NHS Public press release 1 February 2007 - questions over Hewitt's role in privatised NHS plan

A comprehensive report from the Centre for International Public Health Policy

The winter 2007 issue of our newsletter

"Every hospital manager and doctor and nurse in the country should be made to read this painful book."
Claire Rayner

The winter 2007 issue of our newsletter


A comprehensive report from the Centre for International Public Health Policy

Foundation hospitals are part of a market driven solution that the government hopes will reduce NHS waiting lists and raise standards of care.

The new model NHS is a marketplace, where public and private health providers compete for contracts to care for NHS patients. The government believes that competition will raise capacity, choice and standards.

The new system of payment by results will reward those treating more patients with extra funding...

Although the rhetoric of ‘choice’ implies patients having a greater variety of health care options from which to choose, the reality is that patients and communities are experiencing a range of closures, cut-backs and disruptions to their local services