Author: Keep Our NHS Public Greater Manchester

Please download and distribute our leaflet about the changes to the NHS as a result of the introduction of Integtrated Care and about the current crises and threats to our health service. You could also write to your MP using our post card. whats-happening-to-the-nhsDownload postcard-to-mpsDownload

Several members of GMKONP travelled around the North West to support RCN strikers. Please look at photographs on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/GMKONP

A report from the NICE picket line in Manchester today from a member of GMKONP who was there to support the strikers. ' A very public, popular picket on Piccadilly Gardens, earlier today, joined by members of GM KONP. The UNISON members of NICE work in an office in the building behind-but they are part … Continue reading GMKONP Supporting Strikers →

Greater Manchester Keep Our NHS Public will be supporting strikes by the Royal College of Nurses and UNISON this week. On Tuesday 17th UNISON members are on strike at the offices of NICE ( National Institute for Health and Care Excellence). There will be a picket all day at City Towers, Piccadilly Plaza in Manchester … Continue reading GMKONP to support strikes by RCN and UNISON →

GM KONP will have a stall at the rally at Piccadilly Gardens in conjunction with GM Patients Not Passports. 7th Jan 2023 from 1pm Please come along to show your support. For more information see: https://www.facebook.com/events/564473361856656

Below are the notes from a public meeting held in Bolton to discuss the situation around local GPs following a take over by the private health company Operose. 1st speaker was Jacqui Wakefield, a Panorama presenter. The private company Operose, which is owned by the US health insurance company Centene, itself owns 70 GP practices … Continue reading public meeting in Bolton Central Library on 12th October about the situation of local GPs →

Please sign the petition. https://tinyurl.com/ysptwr63

The National Care, Support and Independent Living Service (NaCSILS) campaign http://www.nacsils.co.uk is a non-party political alliance calling for radical change to social care. They brought together a wide range of groups and organisations committed to a radical transformation of Social Care based on seven core demands. The steering group includes representatives from Doctors in UNITE, … Continue reading CAMPAIGN FOR A NATIONALCARE SUPPORT AND INDEPENDENT LIVING SERVICE -RESPONSE TO THE FABIANS REQUEST FOR EVIDENCE ON AROADMAP TO A NATIONAL CARE SERVICE →

On Friday 1st July, a new body will control the running of the NHS in Greater Manchester as a result of the new law called the Health and Care Act 2022. This is a major change which will have profound impact on everyone. 74 years after the public, free NHS was opened at Trafford General … Continue reading Integrated Care System in Greater Manchester Starts Friday 1st July 2022 →

As part of the Week of Action against the Hostile Environment and Refugee week on  Wed 22nd June: at 7.30 Greater Manchester Patients Not Passports presents 'NHS Borderlands': a short investigative documentary into the human cost of charging migrants for accessing the NHS. The film explores the story of Angela, who fled persecution in Zimbabwe … Continue reading Patients Not Passports presents ‘NHS Borderlands’ →

The organisation ‘We Own It’ recently encouraged people to get in touch with the leader of their local Integrated Care System to ask questions about what is happening to local healthcare services. In Greater Manchester, the chair is Richard Leese https://weownit.org.uk/findmynhs People who used the ‘We Own It’ tool may have received a reply from … Continue reading Ask Richard Leese →

The Health and Care Bill has now passed through parliament. The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership appears to be running some form of consultation about their Integrated Care Partnership (System). It is clearly designed to get the responses they want, so that they can claim that the GM population supports what they are … Continue reading The Big Conversation →

BANNERS AND PLACARDS! Please join us at the SOS NHS demonstration on Saturday 26th Feb. 2pm, St Peters Square Manchester. Please bring banners and placards to let people know how you feel about our NHS.

SOS NHS is a new coalition of campaign groups and trade unions which are demanding emergency funding for the NHS from the Government to support services and staff and not the private sector. So far our campaign is backed by Keep Our NHS Public, Health Campaigns Together, People’s Assembly Against Austerity, Unite the Union, GMB, We … Continue reading SOS NHS →