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We campaign to keep the NHS free at the point of use & publicly provided, and to end migrant charges in the NHS. Web: thkeepnhspublic.com Still on X for now at @THKONP

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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 21h
Respect 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
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The Lowdown @thelowdownnhs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Unions and public left in the dark about ICBs cutbacks lowdownnhs.info/comment/unio...
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Unions and public left in the dark about ICBs cutbacks - The Lowdown
In 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 ...
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The Lowdown @thelowdownnhs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Local battles show communities will fight to defend services - John Lister lowdownnhs.info/campaign/loc...
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Local battles show communities will fight to defend services - The Lowdown
Bridlington, 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...
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RMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cable 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
Poster announcing the 90th anniversary commemoration of the Battle of Cable Street on October 4, 2026, with event details and a mural image.Historical poster commemorating the 1936 Battle of Cable Street, highlighting anti-fascist solidarity and upcoming 2026 anniversary events.
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Dr Tony O’Sullivan @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How 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?...
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Palantir: Data, Power, and our NHS | Podcast discussing everything about Palantir and the NHS
YouTube video by Not the NHS Again
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The 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
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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Our 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-...
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More than 1.7 million patients waited for over 12 hours in A&E last year
THE 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....
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A 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.
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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 05/09/2026
Public 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...
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UNISON @unison.org.uk · 01/09/2026
Take 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/...
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Dr Andrew Meyerson @andrewmeyerson.uk · 01/09/2026
It’s time for the PM to do the right thing and end Palantir’s NHS contract. #NHS #palantir
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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The government has dismissed local objections and approved a data centre in the middle of our community. We’re fighting back.
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Brick Lane Needs Social Housing, Not a Data Centre
The government has dismissed local objections and approved a data centre in the middle of our community. We’re fighting back.
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
You 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.
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 06/08/2026
This 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-...
GPs in England

The clock is ticking on GP care.

Over 1,400 practices gone since 2015

1 GP per 2,200 patients

1.5 million appointments every working day

We are working at dangerous levels.
We are fighting for the resources to see you safely.

Sign the petition, support your GP in taking action to protect your practice.GPs in England

Are you losing your GP?

Over 1,400 practices gone since 2015

1 GP per 2,200 patients

One doctor cannot do the work of two.
We are fighting to protect your practice.

Sign the petition, support your GP in taking action to protect your practice.GPs in England

Worried about the future of your GP practice?

GPs are taking action to protect patient care — and you can help.

Sign the petition

Want to learn more first?

www.bma.org.uk/GPsOnYourSideGPs in England

Patient care is our priority despite taking action

GPs are taking action to:

Carry on being your family doctor
Provide safe care
Offer services the community needs
Ensure patient confidentiality
Referring you for specialist care when needed

You can still:

Book appointments
Contact your GP practice
Get medical advice and treatment
Receive urgent care
Be referred for specialist care when clinically needed

Sign the petition, support your GP in taking action to protect your practice.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 04/08/2026
If 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
Purple banner with 'Palantir Out of Our NHS' text.
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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 01/08/2026
Hospital 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...
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Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS Public @thkonp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
East 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
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UNISON Yorkshire & Humberside @unisonyh.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
What 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 ✊
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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Alarm at NHS patient records being put under control of US private equity firm
Doctors and MPs urge more scrutiny of £300m deal for company behind system used by most GPs in England
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Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS Public @thkonp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Protest 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
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 13/07/2026
Green 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
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The 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
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Protect Our NHS BANES @protectournhsbanes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
If 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
Protest against the outsourcing of NHS bank staff in Bath, Swindon & Wilts to private equity-owned Pulse
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Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS Public @thkonp.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
At 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
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Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS Public @thkonp.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
ELFT is targeting a Unite Branch Secretary in its redundancy round. Sign the petition to get them to back down actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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Tell 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 ...
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Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS Public @thkonp.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Keir 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'
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Tower Hamlets Council @towerhamletsnow.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Shadwell 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
Safety warning sign for Shadwell Basin listing dangers including deep water, hidden objects, and cold water shock.
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Dr Tony O’Sullivan @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
She 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’
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Samantha Wathen @samanthajwathen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Wondering why Chair of NHSE, Penny Dash, hates NHS staff so much. Like, just wow.
Screenshot of a quote from Dash from a Sunday Times piece saying "you will not want dirty clumsy hands inside your body"
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Doctors in Unite @doctorsinunite.com · 18/06/2026
The 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👇
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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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UNISON @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
Care workers with banner - migrant workers in UNISON - outside Parliament, London. Photo: UNISON North West
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Margaret Greenwood @mgreenwood2024.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
BMA 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/633wcdhx
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GPs consider alternative service provision models
Ballot of doctors to go ahead on future of general practice after questions over its viability raised
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Margaret Greenwood @mgreenwood2024.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The 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
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Samantha Wathen @samanthajwathen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Ian 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...
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More than 1,300 deaths a month in England due to long A&E waits, figures suggest
Senior medical staff call for solutions to tackle root causes of excess deaths amid tenfold increase in a decade
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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Our 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-...
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MPs call for Palantir NHS contract to end as Britain ‘seriously exposed’ to foreign actors
MPs 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...
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Samantha Wathen @samanthajwathen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
New 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.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 31/05/2026
The 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
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The Lowdown @thelowdownnhs.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
NHS PENSION SCANDAL: How BSW Hospitals Group cut pensions to meet savings targets lowdownnhs.info/topics/staff...
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NHS PENSION SCANDAL: How BSW Hospitals Group cut pensions to meet savings targets - The Lowdown
By 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...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Shameful 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
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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Tomorrow’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!
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Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS Public @thkonp.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
We want people to run our NHS - let's stop stripping the care out of healthcare keepournhspublic.com/petition-nhs...
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PETITION: NHS Staff not Artificial Intelligence
The 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...
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Dr Tom Riddington @drtomriddington.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
KONP 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 👇
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Sharon Graham @unitesharon.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
On 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
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Phil 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...
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How privatising ADHD diagnosis robs the NHS of resources | LSE British Politics
ADHD 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.
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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Our 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...
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Nurses suffer racial abuse once every 51 minutes amid ‘catastrophic rise’ in discrimination
NURSES suffer racial abuse once every 51 minutes amid a “catastrophic rise” in discrimination over recent years, new analysis shows.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 18/05/2026
An 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
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 15/05/2026
This 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
A complaint email addressing issues with accessing NHS services for hearing aids, reflecting dissatisfaction with being directed to private providers.
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Samantha Wathen @samanthajwathen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Did 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...
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The mental health crisis among healthcare workers is worse than you think—and it’s entirely fixable
YouTube video by Not the NHS Again
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