Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicCat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 21hRespect for Andy Burnham promising a new National Care Service Good to see him saying it will be "care that is about people not profit" Burnham should also insource ALL private contracts back into the NHS End privatisation and REINSTATE THE NHS as a fully public service 813033
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicThe Lowdown @thelowdownnhs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Unions and public left in the dark about ICBs cutbacks lowdownnhs.info/comment/unio...lowdownnhs.infoUnions and public left in the dark about ICBs cutbacks - The LowdownIn August the Unite branch at East London Foundation Trust (ELFT) heard that Mark Dunne, one of their leading reps, who had been included in a list of posts to be made redundant, had been effectively ... 013
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicThe Lowdown @thelowdownnhs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Local battles show communities will fight to defend services - John Lister lowdownnhs.info/campaign/loc...lowdownnhs.infoLocal battles show communities will fight to defend services - The LowdownBridlington, Barnstaple and Canterbury, and more? … One reason it has become so hard to find detailed information on planned cuts to local NHS services is that, as soon as any such information becomes... 013
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicRMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Cable Street 90 Two weeks today; join with us to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street. 📢 Speakers include RMT General Secretary, Eddie Dempsey 176
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicDr Tony O’Sullivan @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026How safe is our NHS data? Can we trust Palantir? Why are we campaigning to get Palantir OUT of our NHS? Join Dr Steve Taylor of @thedauk.bsky.social, myself and Lucy Nichols of @keepournhspublic.bsky.social in discussion on the latest about Palantir and our NHS youtu.be/Bvdp6hjEMO8?...youtu.bePalantir: Data, Power, and our NHS | Podcast discussing everything about Palantir and the NHSYouTube video by Not the NHS Again 078
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The Green's Baroness Bennett points out that Palantir did not have any experience in health data and only got NHS contracts after being introduced by the now disgraced Peter Mandelson Making the case that data ownership should be with the NHS, not with external parties 361419546
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicKeep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Our Co-Chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social said: “These figures represent an appalling patient safety failure. A 24 hour A&E wait should be an exceptional event, yet half a million patients endured one in a single year." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nhs-...morningstaronline.co.ukMore than 1.7 million patients waited for over 12 hours in A&E last yearTHE Department for Health has been slammed for an “appalling patient safety failure” after figures revealed more than 1.7 million patients waited for more than half a day for emergency care last year.... 1128
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicMarcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 09/09/2026A third of nurses and a third of doctors were born overseas. Without immigrants the NHS would collapse. You are more likely to be treated by an immigrant than to be behind one in a queue. Massive underfunding of our NHS and lack of social housing were a political choice. 18396135
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicEveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 05/09/2026Public NHS funds should be spent on permanent healthcare staff, not funnelled into private equity profits. Read our full report on NHS insourcing and private equity: everydoctor.org.uk/reports/prof... 04035
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicUNISON @unison.org.uk · 01/09/2026Take action now to stop yet another wave of damaging cuts in the NHS! NHS trusts in England are planning over 26,000 job cuts by 2028, in response to ballooning budget deficits. Don't let your MP stand by in silence Email them today: action.unison.org.uk/page/196025/... 122
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicDr Andrew Meyerson @andrewmeyerson.uk · 01/09/2026It’s time for the PM to do the right thing and end Palantir’s NHS contract. #NHS #palantir 01510
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicTribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The government has dismissed local objections and approved a data centre in the middle of our community. We’re fighting back.tribunemag.co.ukBrick Lane Needs Social Housing, Not a Data CentreThe government has dismissed local objections and approved a data centre in the middle of our community. We’re fighting back. 0188
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicEd Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 12/08/2026You wouldn't get within a thousand miles of a financial decision in the NHS under circumstances like these, but these obvious conflicts of interests (to put it politely) are routine in Patliament. 1225
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicThe BMA @bma.org.uk · 06/08/2026This month we're asking practices in England to bring patients on board with our campaign to show support for General Practice. Look out for these posters arriving at your practice soon. And share the petition now: www.change.org/p/save-your-... 197
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicWe Own It @weownit.org.uk · 04/08/2026If Palantir's involvement in our NHS frightens the life out of you then join the picket at the Department of Health this August. Can our friends at Keep Our NHS Public count on your support? @keepournhspublic.bsky.social.bsky.social Sign up here: vist.ly/5dhrk 06433
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicEveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 01/08/2026Hospital staff and unions are raising concerns over plans to outsource hospital shift management to a private company. Workers warn that reduced pay for extra shifts could lead to severe staffing shortages and put patient care at risk. Full story: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 23431
Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS Public @thkonp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026East Ham Care Centre - about to cut 20 beds. Under the radar there are major cuts to jobs and beds going on across the NHS in England 021
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicUNISON Yorkshire & Humberside @unisonyh.bsky.social · 30/07/2026What a turnout 🤩 Theatre assistants in Leeds marched on the trust's board this morning, making clear they should be paid fairly for the key clinical tasks they perform ✊ 043
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicDavid Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 28/07/2026www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.comAlarm at NHS patient records being put under control of US private equity firmDoctors and MPs urge more scrutiny of £300m deal for company behind system used by most GPs in England 177
Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS Public @thkonp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Protest outside the Board meeting of East London Foundation Trust. 330 jobs about to go, £30m+ in cuts. No proper consultation and the senior union rep, Mark Dunne is being made redundant 001
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicWe Own It @weownit.org.uk · 13/07/2026Green Party Peer Jenny Jones has an appeal to Andy Burnham: help save lives, cancel the pharma trade deal with the US. The deal will raise prices by 25%, divert £45bn from essential services, & cause 229,000 avoidable deaths. @greenjennyjones.bsky.social Sign the petition: vist.ly/5a2sd 06639
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicOliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 13/07/2026The fact that there are far MORE attacks on Muslims & mosques than Jewish people & synagogues yet NO extra money to protect Muslim communities is pure racism 49750
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicProtect Our NHS BANES @protectournhsbanes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026If you're in Bath or surrounds, please come & support our community protest with NHS staff unions against the outsourcing of essential NHS bank staff to private equity-owned Pulse. 9am Fri 17 July RUH Bath #RobbingTheBank #NHS 145
Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS Public @thkonp.bsky.social · 04/07/2026At Coldfire Festival in LBTH, inviting people to share their views on recent issues in the NHS - a lot of interesting conversations. People really care about our NHS 000
Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS Public @thkonp.bsky.social · 26/06/2026ELFT is targeting a Unite Branch Secretary in its redundancy round. Sign the petition to get them to back down actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...actionnetwork.orgTell East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT): Hands off Mark Dunne!Unite Branch Secretary and East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) Staff Side Chair Mark Dunne has been given notice of redundancy. Mark has been given notice that his contract will end on Tuesday 26 ... 000
Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS Public @thkonp.bsky.social · 26/06/2026leftfootforward.org/2026/06/keir...leftfootforward.orgKeir Starmer failed the NHS. The next Labour leader must do better.'We need commitment to a publicly funded, provided and accountable NHS, not an ever-closer relationship with the parasitic private sector' 000
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicTower Hamlets Council @towerhamletsnow.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Shadwell Basin is a dangerous place to swim and people have drowned. The water is very cold and deep, and there are hidden obstacles. There are safer places to swim, like York Hall Swimming Pool. If you get into trouble, remember to float to live: orlo.uk/MBujI 033
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicDr Tony O’Sullivan @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026She was head McKinsey team leading the SE London regime in 2012 that called for the closure of Lewisham Hospital (which we defeated). I overheard two in her team debating the difficulties of getting fewer people attending A&E. They actually said: ‘If there are fewer A&Es, fewer people will go there’ 1105
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicSamantha Wathen @samanthajwathen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Wondering why Chair of NHSE, Penny Dash, hates NHS staff so much. Like, just wow. 72212
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicDoctors in Unite @doctorsinunite.com · 18/06/2026The shift to a privatised 'Plan B' option for NHS General Practice "would undermine the foundation of the National Health Service in England and would exacerbate health inequalities", say MPs. An early day motion opposing any such move is gaining signatures👇edm.parliament.ukFuture of GP services in England - Early Day Motions - UK ParliamentThat 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... 044
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicUNISON @unison.org.uk · 10/06/2026💜✊ Care workers are rallying at Westminster and Holyrood today Together, they are saying: ✅ Keep the current five-year route to settlement 🛑 No retrospective rule changes 🤝 A sector‑wide visa scheme for social care and a fully funded Fair Pay Agreement for all care workers #FairVisasNow 0103
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicMargaret Greenwood @mgreenwood2024.bsky.social · 10/06/2026BMA GPs committee for England to ballot GPs on an alternative strategy for general practice that'd allow GPs greater freedom to provide private services. The gov't must act to stop NHS privatisation. Please write to your MP and share tinyurl.com/633wcdhxtinyurl.comGPs consider alternative service provision modelsBallot of doctors to go ahead on future of general practice after questions over its viability raised 013
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicMargaret Greenwood @mgreenwood2024.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The future of GP services is at stake. Ask your MP to sign EDM 329 tabled by @IanByrneMP to ensure the future of general practice in England as a comprehensive service available to all free at the point of need. No to NHS privatisation. tinyurl.com/n5ps5n8d 113
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicSamantha Wathen @samanthajwathen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Ian Higginson from @rcem.ac.uk again telling it like it is: "We continue to see a lack of solutions designed to tackle the root causes...Instead, we are fobbed off with recycled ideas that haven’t ever worked.." 300 AVOIDABLE deaths. Every. Single. Week. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.comMore than 1,300 deaths a month in England due to long A&E waits, figures suggestSenior medical staff call for solutions to tackle root causes of excess deaths amid tenfold increase in a decade 21010
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicKeep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Our Co-Chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social said: “It is unbelievable that a health service contract was in the first place awarded to a company so well known for its association with death and attacks on civil liberties.” morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mps-...morningstaronline.co.ukMPs call for Palantir NHS contract to end as Britain ‘seriously exposed’ to foreign actorsMPs CALLED for Palantir’s NHS contract to be terminated as the US tech firm’s public service contracts leave Britain “seriously exposed” to foreign actors.The Commons science, innovation and technolog... 1178
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicSamantha Wathen @samanthajwathen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026New Health secretary, same old nonsense. "Up until a few weeks ago I was working at the Treasury" Says it all, including that he's yet another in a long line of Heath secretaries that know nothing about health. I'm so tired. 3268
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 31/05/2026The UK health department’s top official was a shareholder at a private equity-owned children’s care home business, which imposed sharp fee increases on local authorities. Read more here: ft.trib.al/BQiQeYW 97144
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicThe Lowdown @thelowdownnhs.bsky.social · 31/05/2026NHS PENSION SCANDAL: How BSW Hospitals Group cut pensions to meet savings targets lowdownnhs.info/topics/staff...lowdownnhs.infoNHS PENSION SCANDAL: How BSW Hospitals Group cut pensions to meet savings targets - The LowdownBy former RUH Bath Hospital governor NICOLA JAMES (This article is an update and a follow-up on our May 12 Lowdown article More NHS outsourcing as management of bank staff contracted out.) If you want... 032
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Shameful from Reform and a good example of why you should never share anything by that godawful aggregator account, which just happens to be run by a Reform councillor. Obviously prostate cancer is a particular problem for black men, who are twice as likely to suffer from it in their lifetimes 1311361379
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicKeep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Tomorrow’s Podcast with @thedauk.bsky.social NOT THE NHS AGAIN! PFI or PPP - It’s magic or is it? Tony Blair in the news reminds us the Blair Govt were responsible for PFI (Private Finance Initiative), with hospitals, schools left with huge payments for years. 70% more costly than Govt borrowing! 1105
Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS Public @thkonp.bsky.social · 27/05/2026We want people to run our NHS - let's stop stripping the care out of healthcare keepournhspublic.com/petition-nhs...keepournhspublic.comPETITION: NHS Staff not Artificial IntelligenceThe Government is planning to scale back NHS recruitment and replace vital healthcare roles with AI technology to cut costs. This could leave patients facing fewer trained staff, unsafe care, and long... 013
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicDr Tom Riddington @drtomriddington.bsky.social · 24/05/2026KONP works tirelessly to remind those in positions of power that the NHS must never be replaced. Our health service is free at the point of use, where care is based on clinical need, not on the ability to pay. Support KONP to help KEEP OUR NHS PUBLIC 👇keepournhspublic.comKeep Our NHS Public 073
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicSharon Graham @unitesharon.bsky.social · 19/05/2026On the picket line this morning with health visitors in Wales, working for Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board who are fighting for pay. We meet government next week. Solidarity ✊ #Wales 0124
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicPhil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 18/05/2026“These returns match the returns generated by the owners of 5 private eye clinics, who have generated an average 32% profit from delivering NHS funded cataract surgery, with some companies making a 50% margin.” Privatisation - legalised theft blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...blogs.lse.ac.ukHow privatising ADHD diagnosis robs the NHS of resources | LSE British PoliticsADHD assessments are soaring, many outsourced to the private sector, and the companies to which the NHS outsources these are enjoying huge profit margins. This is unsustainable. 033
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicKeep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Our Co-Chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social said: "Migrants make our NHS and are over 20 per cent of its workforce. Labour must end austerity, end the hostile environment, and start to respect our staff again. This starts at the top.” morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nurs...morningstaronline.co.ukNurses suffer racial abuse once every 51 minutes amid ‘catastrophic rise’ in discriminationNURSES suffer racial abuse once every 51 minutes amid a “catastrophic rise” in discrimination over recent years, new analysis shows. 02418
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicGood Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 18/05/2026An NHS campaigner reveals how spy-tech giant Palantir tried to secretly hire influencers to smear Good Law Project 👀 🎧 Listen to The Shadow Contract👇 goodlaw.social/1e69ba 7604358
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicWe Own It @weownit.org.uk · 15/05/2026This is what 15 years of Conservative rule and 18 months of Wes Streeting have done to our NHS It is time for the government to reverse NHS privatisation and invest in rebuilding our NHS 59448
Reposted by Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS PublicSamantha Wathen @samanthajwathen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Did a Podcast for @frontline19.bsky.social with @drstevetaylor.bsky.social from @thedauk.bsky.social I'm honestly just over it. It's not rocket science & it won't cost the Earth. Don't expect people to be able to look after us if no one cares enough to look after them www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_7W...youtube.comThe mental health crisis among healthcare workers is worse than you think—and it’s entirely fixableYouTube video by Not the NHS Again 096