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THE NHS must be run in the interests of public health, not private profit, campaigners demanded today after Boris Johnson admitted that personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages were a “tragedy.” The Prime Minister said that the nation “couldn’t produce enough gloves, gowns or masks” in a call with Tory members, the Mirror revealed, contradicting previous statements by the government. In February, Health Secretary Matt Hancock claimed that there had never been a national shorta...

Exclusive: Analysis reveals amount of money flowing to for-profit firms, voluntary groups and not-for-profits There is a 4.7 million-strong waiting list of patients needing hospital treatment, mainly surgery. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA There is a 4.7 million-strong waiting list of patients needing hospital treatment, mainly surgery. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA Mon 3 May 2021 13.12 EDT Last modified on Mon 3 May 2021 16.56 EDT More than £96bn of health service funding has gone to non-NHS provi...

Keep Our NHS Publin holds a rally in Oxford against Sercos contract renewal PUBLIC health campaigners in Oxford called on the Government not to renew contracts with private company Serco for the national test-and-trace system. They gathered outside County Hall in New Road yesterday with banners, posters, and a giant contract, which was later torn up. Serco has held contracts for contact tracing since May 2020 but the group Keep Our NHS Public argues it has repeatedly failed to deliver on ...

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FRONT-LINE staff and key workers were left feeling unsafe and unsupported due to the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the People’s Covid Inquiry has heard. The government’s failures, along with the longevity of the pandemic, affected their wellbeing and various aspects of their work, workers told the fifth session of the inquiry by Keep Our NHS Public on Wednesday night. Train driver and Aslef union rep Unjum Mirza said operational decisions by Transport for London (TfL...

In a March letter to secretary of state for health Matt Hancock, also signed by Camden council leader Cllr Georgia Gould and Islington counterpart Cllr Richard Watts, Mayor Glanville noted that the transfer of control from AT Medics, which runs the surgeries in question, to Operose/Centene had happened with “alarming speed, with little public scrutiny or patient consultation, and little or no involvement of council partners or local patient groups”. Addressing North London councillors last ...

In a March letter to secretary of state for health Matt Hancock, also signed by Camden council leader Cllr Georgia Gould and Islington counterpart Cllr Richard Watts, Mayor Glanville noted that the transfer of control from AT Medics, which runs the surgeries in question, to Operose/Centene had happened with “alarming speed, with little public scrutiny or patient consultation, and little or no involvement of council partners or local patient groups”. Addressing North London councillors last ...

That encounter led to Greensill being able to meet the chief executives of a number of NHS hospital trusts whose support he was seeking for a scheme to let the NHS’s 1.4m staff in England be paid daily by Greensill, via an app called Earnd, rather than monthly in what Labour said was a latter-day “junk bonds” exercise. Harding is best known as the boss of the government’s heavily-criticised £37bn test and trace programme. Calls for clarity about Prior’s involvement with Greensill com...

A DOCTOR at the fourth session of the People’s Covid Inquiry condemned the government’s “complete dereliction of duty” during the Covid-19 pandemic.  The inquiry, organised by Keep Our NHS Public, on Wednesday evening examined why the impact on disabled people and those in social care was so significant. Palliative care medicine consultant Rachel Clarke said: “Care homes had a completely different supply chain and hospices were categorised as care homes. We were only issued with a tw...

Britain Tuesday 6 April 2021, by Socialist Resistance The successful vaccine roll out by the National Health Service (NHS) and Labour Party leader Starmer’s race to the right has given Conservative Party prime minister, Boris Johnson, a shot in the arm. Polls in February put the Tories 7% ahead of Labour, and on 6 March at 13% ahead. But the Brexit fall-out, the Covid “social murder”, the dis-United Kingdom, and the economic crisis all point towards a period of intensifying political tur...