For the last 18 months we've been building a movement to halt + reverse #NHSPrivatisation.
We've run MP briefings, public webinars, sent 12,000+ letters & ad vans round London, projected onto parliament and built an interactive map.
Now we're...
...excited to launch our next step: a series of in-person events across the UK!
We'll be in Edinburgh, Brighton, Harrogate, Birmingham + Cardiff this autumn and we'd love you to join us: bit.ly/Events-Sign-Up💙
Our online community is incredibly powerful. Now we want to…
...take things to the next level & meet as many of you as we can.
All NHS staff+members of the public are welcome to learn more about our work, share what's happening in your area, and shape the next phase of the campaign.
The NHS is in crisis. To protect it and ensure the...
future of a truly public healthcare system we need to build our power before the next general election.
Why did we build a map of NHS privatisation + outsourcing? 🗺️💙💰
🧵 A thread:
Lots of people are (rightly) worried about #NHSPrivatisation, but they see it as something to avoid or prevent happening in the future.
The truth is - it's already here.
Privatisation has been...
...creeping into the NHS for 30 years.
This transfer of assets into private hands has landed the NHS in major debt, created a postcode lottery for patients & as published in the Lancet; led to an increase in ‘treatable mortality’(preventable deaths)... thelancet.com/journals/lanpu…
...by introducing a profit motive, priorities are inevitably skewed. The sole focus of healthcare workers should be patient care, not profit margins.
Short term contracts also disrupt long-term caring relationships which are incredibly valuable, esp. for clinically complex...
With more than 12,000 signatures, thank you so much to everyone who joined us to demand #JohnsonMustAct 💙And we’ll be sure to share any response we receive with you. bit.ly/JMA-letter-Eng…
"I’m a consultant obstetrician of 10 years. I’ve seen it all. It takes a lot to make me cry.
I cried on the way to work in the car this morning listening to Jeremy Hunt on radio 4 regarding the Shrewsbury and Telford report...
...I cried for all the babies and families, lives needlessly lost and ruined.
I cried for all the staff in those units broken by the system which has let down so many.
I cried with frustration at Mr Hunt's statement that hospitals “need to be hungry” to find out why...
...babies die and bring about change, and that staff need to be free to talk openly about mistakes without fear of scapegoating, losing their job and ending up in court.
I cried for my colleague who is so broken by her recent Coroner’s court experience after a baby's death...
Only 36% of people are satisfied with our NHS - the lowest level in 25 years.
And understandably so.
Millions are waiting for treatment. We're terminally short of staff. But for the real reason, we need to dig deeper. To explain why the... theguardian.com/society/2022/m…
...failings in our NHS are not the fault of staff; who are fighting to do their best in a broken system, but those who are meant to hold ultimate responsibility: our government.
While thankfully the govt updated the policy, and free COVID-19 tests will continue to be available for specific patients and NHS and care staff, the risk remains too high. gov.uk/government/new…
🚛 Today our ad van toured Westminster to highlight the links that exist between some politicians and companies who are profiting from public healthcare.
Next up: Ranil Jayawardena.
The MP for North East Hampshire...
...Ranil Jayawardena's constituency office space was paid for by Serco, a total value of £18,999.96.
Serco, which had revenues of ~£4.4 billion last year, was 1 of the biggest companies behind (the inaccurately named) NHS Test and Trace system. The same system which wasted...
...£37 billion - about 20% of the NHS’ entire annual budget.
If we want a truly public NHS, we have to fight for it.
Another MP and member of Boris Johnson's team with links to private healthcare providers is Priti Patel.
Documents uncovered by Good Law Project in the course of another legal case over the government’s controversial PPE contracts found…
...a personal link between our Home Secretary+a consultant working for the firm Pharmaceuticals Direct Ltd.
The same firm who were awarded a PPE contract worth £28.8 million in May 2020 💰
And another one worth £102.6 million in July 💰💰
Both awarded without competition...
...while Priti Patel has declared “Nil” in Parliament's Register of Interests.
🚨 As the government's Health & Care Bill heads to it's 3rd reading in the House of Lords soon, add your name to #ScrapNHSBill 👉 bit.ly/Lords-ScrapNHS… and...