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Leeds Keep Our NHS Public

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Leeds Keep Our NHS Public was set up in 2011. We campaign in Leeds with health professionals and patients concerned that the NHS is being fragmented and privatised Join us leedskeepournhspublic.wordpress.com

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UNISON Yorkshire & Humberside @unisonyh.bsky.social · 4h
Theatre assistants in Leeds are paid on the lowest grade in the NHS. If they worked 12 miles away in Wakefield, or 19 miles away in Huddersfield, they'd be on a higher grade for the same work. Michelle and Viv are spot on: they just want to be paid fairly.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8h
Nuffield Trust finds that the NHS surcharge (at £1035/year + £776 for students + children) raises 60% more than the cost of the healthcare it covers, putting £2.5 billion into the NHS Rapid drops in immigration therefore hit the NHS finances www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/articles/ana...
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Analysis finds that migrants pay more to the NHS than the cost of the care they use | National Health Executive
Migrants paying the Immigration Health Surcharge are contributing substantially more to the NHS than they receive in healthcare,
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Leeds Keep Our NHS Public @leedskonp.eurosky.social · 6h
And who is missing from Leeds 👇
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Dr Tom Riddington @drtomriddington.bsky.social · 12h
@foxglovelegal.bsky.social has "published a new report on Palantir’s NHS England contract. It shows that the figures used to defend the spy-tech firm’s role in the health service don’t stand up, and that ministers kept repeating them in Parliament even after the NHS had admitted as much."
foxglove.org.uk
Email your MP about Palantir's NHS contract
Email your MP now. Ask them to demand the dodgy claims are corrected, and to urge the Health Secretary to trigger the break clause.
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Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshiredales.org.uk · 18h
On Whernside, Force Gill cascades down the mountain in a series of steps, carving its way through the landscape. #YorkshireDales #WaterfallWednesday
Tall waterfall cascading down a rocky cliff surrounded by moss and sparse vegetation under a clear blue sky.
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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 20/10/2026
4 years the Tories sat on their hands after the Cygnus exercise!
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 20/10/2026
The Covid Inquiry’s Module 6 report is devastating. Its central conclusion: adult social care was treated as “something of an afterthought”, while “protecting the NHS” sometimes came at the expense of people receiving and providing care. 1/10
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The Lowdown @thelowdownnhs.bsky.social · 20/10/2026
Calls to cut links with Palantir, as benefits shrink and costs rise lowdownnhs.info/private-prov...
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Calls to cut links with Palantir, as benefits shrink and costs rise. - The Lowdown
Despite the blocking of a motion at Labour conference calling on ministers to cancel Palantir’s NHS contract over the company’s links to the Israeli military, the government is still under increasing ...
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The Lowdown @thelowdownnhs.bsky.social · 20/10/2026
Burnham and Healey extinguish NHS funding hopes - John Lister lowdownnhs.info/emergency-ca...
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Burnham and Healey extinguish NHS funding hopes - The Lowdown
According to the Times, a joint letter from the Prime Minister and his Chancellor to Health Secretary Yvette Cooper confirms there will be little relief from the current funding crisis, even as waiting times for elective and emergency care increase. While the voluntary exit of Wes Streeting seemed to promise the possibility of a change
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Andrew Edwards @andrewedwardsleeds.bsky.social · 19/10/2026
Autumn glory: Staircase Lane, Bramhope, north of Leeds 11.25am, 14th October 2026
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 20/10/2026
Navi Pillay on #C4News: "The Genocide convention, which was passed in 1948, places a peremptory obligation on every state.. they are obliged to take action to prevent genocide wherever it is occurring or is about to happen.. its time now that they carry out these obligations"
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UNISON @unison.org.uk · 19/10/2026
NHS staff 2.4% pay proposal ‘derisory’, says UNISON ‘This government came into office on a promise of change. Two years later, it’s pledging hope. But most NHS workers have seen neither’. Helga Pile, UNISON head of health Read more: buff.ly/gNQOMzn
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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 19/10/2026
The Covid Inquiry's report on social care will be published tomorrow at 12pm. For bereaved families, this is one of the most important modules of the Inquiry. Here are the key issues we want it to address. 🧵 1/10
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 18/10/2026
Our NHS has been hollowed out over the last few decades. Thank you @premnsikka.bsky.social The UK has 2.4 NHS beds PER 1,000 people Japan: 12.6 Germany: 7.7 Austria: 6.6 France: 5.4 OECD average: 4.2 This is why we have the disgrace of corridor care. It's time to invest and rebuild our NHS
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
Grateful if any followers in England would sign this petition to help reopen a railway line linking Lancashire and Yorkshire c.org/KYVHfTDQZn
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Sign the Petition
Restore the 12-mile Colne - Skipton rail link, reconnecting Pendle and Leeds
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
Great news. This has been such an important programme in the past and needs to be sustained
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MMTAction @mmt-action.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
Children on trolleys in corridors, and the fix is "a priority" plus £140m. Hospitals can't issue pounds. Westminster can, and it rations them. The real limits are beds and nurses, and those shortages were chosen, not found. #MMT #UKGreenParty #UKPolitics #Economics #UKEconomics
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Urgent plan needed to end 'corridor care' for children, health secretary says - BBC News
Yvette Cooper also announces £140m investment in England's urgent care system, ahead of winter.
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FrancesCrook@bsky.social @francescrook.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
Goodness the NHS is efficient. I had a CT scan booked within a week, done on a Sunday morning on time, following polite phone call reminder, with lovely staff.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 18/10/2026
Privatisation and profiteering are damaging our NHS and patient care Andy Burnham MUST rebuild our NHS as the health service Labour founded it to be: ✅Free at the point of use, ✅Funded from general taxation, and ✅Run fully in public ownership Thank you @premnsikka.bsky.social for speaking out
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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Super excited to see this article in print in the APSR: 📚 “Public Service Decline and Support for the Populist Right: Evidence from England’s National Health Service” - with the brilliant @zachdickson.bsky.social @catherinedevries.bsky.social @simonecremaschi.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
📢 Please join us for a special online screening of the People’s Emergency Briefing on the climate and nature crisis on Saturday 24th October at 4pm. The film features Chris Packham alongside leading scientists, celebrities, and a host of ordinary Brits. 1/
Clinically Vulnerable Families

National Emergency Briefing

People's Emergency Briefing

On climate and nature

Online screening for anyone who can't safely or easily attend in person - including Clinically Vulnerable and disabled people.

Saturday 24th October

Online 4pm-6pm
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UNISON Yorkshire & Humberside @unisonyh.bsky.social · 17/10/2026
Theatre assistants from Leeds took their fight for fair pay to Westminster earlier this week ✊ Viv and Michelle explained why they're back on strike 👏
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 17/10/2026
Neighbourhood Health £10m invested👏🏼 What it buys - NHS Gazebo, Table, Leaflets (£1600) x 6300 GP practices, no Nurse But no allocated funding in 10 year plan Invest properly in GP practices for care closer to home don’t tinker around the edges @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social
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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 17/10/2026
🚨16 NHS trusts and health boards don't use Palantir's £330m data platform, per Medact FOIs in the Guardian. Greater Manchester called it "retrograde". Birmingham, serving 2m+ people, won't use it. The government can break this contract. It should. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Palantir patient data tech rejected by many NHS trusts in England
Exclusive: health bodies across country say controversial US firm’s data platform no better than systems already in use
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Nursing Times @nursingtimes.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Patients prefer human medical advice over immediate AI The majority of patients prefer to wait for medical advice from a healthcare professional, rather than getting it immediately from AI, according to a new study out this week. #nursing #nurses #AI #digital www.nursingtimes.net/digital-and-...
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Patients prefer human medical advice over immediate AI
Read about the findings of a study by a US nursing school into patients' preferences for receiving medical information.
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Dr Tom Riddington @drtomriddington.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Write to your MP and ask them to support Early Day Motion 329 on the future of General Practice. Seeing your NHS GP must always be free at the point of use.
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Future of GP services in England - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament
That this House notes the British Medical Association GP Committee for England's decision to ballot GPs on a Plan B, or an alternative strategy for general practice, allowing GPs greater freedom to pr...
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The NHS is not for sale. For decades public health has suffered because of private companies prioritising profits over patient care. This extraction has carried on under our noses, hidden behind the NHS logo. 🧵1/2
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Leeds Keep Our NHS Public @leedskonp.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
Solidarity @mothinali.bsky.social 🤗
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Over Yonder @over-yonder.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Bridlington Harbour in October. #bridlington #photography #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #over-yonder #architecture #travel #yorkshire #urbangaze
Bridlington Harbour in October.

#bridlington #photography #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #over-yonder #architecture #travel #yorkshire #urbangaze
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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Remind me, who do MPs and Cllrs work for? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Labour to break from Green council groups that back Zionism policy
Labour says it will end power-sharing deals with councillors that do not disown the party's new stance.
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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Our Co-Chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social writes about how we need to keep pushing to get Palantir’s Federated Data Platform out of our NHS. Get the full scoop here 👇 keepournhspublic.com/palantir-out...
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Palantir out of the NHS: Why we need to keep the pressure up
We need to keep pushing to get Palantir's Federated Data Platform out of our NHS. Keep Our NHS Public Co-Chair, John Puntis, explains why Palantir Technologies is a company founded in 2003 by US bi...
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Pat Brown 🇦🇪 🍉 @patalextea.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Leeds Women in Black Tuesday lunchtime. Increased support from passers-by. Murder of Palestinians continues in Gaza, and abduction and evictions in the West Bank. We stand in solidarity with Palestinians everywhere 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Chris Guiton @chrisguiton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
PFI was a tale of a disaster foretold. But the Government's NHS 10-Year Health Plan actively endorses the use of 'private-public partnerships' to deliver its objectives. Simply changing the name merely underlines the fact that you can't polish a turd. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pfi-...
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PFI has been disastrous from the beginning, and it’s no better as it ends
IT IS A truth universally acknowledged that private finance initiatives (PFIs) have been a disaster.PFIs loaded public bodies down with debt. They were a major route by which privatisation was leverag...
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Leeds Keep Our NHS Public @leedskonp.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
Happy Birthday Mark 🤗🎈🎉
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Yorkshire CND @yorkshirecnd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Will you join us next week at Menwith Hill? Registration is essential, due to limited space on the coach and no parking -https://events.humanitix.com/shut-down-us-bases-kick-out-trump-s-spy-station-day-of-action-at-menwith-hill
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Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I've just signed the Palantir Pledge, joining politicians across the world in committing not to support any public contracts with this US tech giant. The next big battle here is to use the upcoming break clause to kick Palantir out of our NHS!
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The Lowdown @thelowdownnhs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Health Bill threatens to derail Burnham's drive for public control - Guy Collis lowdownnhs.info/topics/accou...
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Health Bill threatens to derail Burnham's drive for public control - The Lowdown
By Guy Collis – UNISON Policy Officer The government’s Health Bill resumes its Parliamentary journey in the House of Lords on 13 October. As the first major piece of NHS-related legislation since the ...
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Leeds Keep Our NHS Public @leedskonp.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
We tried again - this was same leg 2014. It was a tiring day but very warm welcome on St Mark's church. Then back on the Stray next morning to go again morningstaronline.co.uk/a-0bc4-nhs-m...
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NHS marchers receive Yorkshire welcome
FIFTY campaigners making a 300-mile trek to save the National Health Service are receiving a warm Yorkshire welcome in the county’s towns and cities as they head south. After a gruelling 20 mile...
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
🧵The Jarrow march or crusade reached Harrogate OTD, Monday, 12, October in 1936. They had walked fifteen miles from Ripon and they then departed for Leeds the following day. The march faced various challenges not least of which was the Labour Party conference's
 The Spirit of Jarrow statue by sculptor Graham Ibbeson  It features a family and marchers carrying the iconic "Jarrow Crusade" banner, symbolising the 200 men who walked 282 miles from Jarrow to London to protest severe unemployment and poverty,
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Leeds Keep Our NHS Public @leedskonp.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
Some of us will be there
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Leeds Keep Our NHS Public @leedskonp.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
This platform is now just Twitter in 2016. Blocking all AI worshipping, warmongering freaks, they can echo in their own chamber from now on
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Terry Brough @terrybrough.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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The NHS and care: a chance to rebuild trust
Policy commitments and actions are needed urgently A policy statement from Keep Our NHS Public By Co Chairs Tony O'Sullivan and John Puntis A new Labour leadership has an opportunity to reset t...
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
‘Tough Decisions’ 99-percent.org/tough-decisi... "Abolishing the NHS would perhaps be the single worst vulture policy ... It would harm millions of ordinary voters, and it would do extraordinary damage to the economy as a whole, but it would enrich a few people massively."
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‘Tough Decisions’ - 99%
How a pattern of decision-making that harms the economy and most ordinary voters is being sustained, even as the damage becomes clearer Since the 1980s, the UK economy has been […]
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angelsbliss.bsky.social @angelsbliss.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Add your name: the.organise.network/campaigns/ne...
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Stop the growing privatisation of the NHS
The new health secretary Yvette Cooper must commit to stopping the Conservative policy of using NHS funds to pay private hospitals. Can you join the campaign now?
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Leeds Keep Our NHS Public @leedskonp.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
Burnham repeatedly lied to thousands of NHS campaigners, staff, patients. When be sctually has the power to change anythjng, he rushes in the direction of lobbyists and warmongers instead of public services #fraud
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 10/10/2026
Being behind on priority bills is spreading up the income distribution. Since the pandemic, there has been a rise in the number of families in arrears on ‘priority’ bills (energy, water, Council Tax, rent and similar). Read more 👇️ buff.ly/QbGKuKU
Chart showing proportion of individuals living in families behind on at least one priority household bill, by income group: UK
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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Rainbow over Settle…
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Nursing Times @nursingtimes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
South Yorkshire nurses facing fresh ‘fire and rehire’ threat A long-standing “fire and rehire” dispute involving nurses at an acute trust in South Yorkshire has flared up again. #workforce #nursing #nurses #barnsley #nhs #unions #healthcare www.nursingtimes.net/workforce/so...
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South Yorkshire nurses facing fresh ‘fire and rehire’ threat
Nurses at Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are facing a new 'fire and rehire' threat. Find out the latest in this long-running dispute.
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Leeds Keep Our NHS Public @leedskonp.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
#leeds theatre staff #strike
John Puntis, Claire amd campaigners with Yorkshire Health bannerNo Palantir in the NHS long banners
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