10th December 2024

Doctors in Unite’s submission…
Here’s the trade union group Doctors in Unite Primary Care submission to Streeting’s 10 year Health Plan for England. In summary it says a) the stronger the primary care system, the more the health system can improve health outcomes, b) investment in public health improves life expectancy when delivered at community levels c) Market failure in primary care delivery must be recognised and addressed.

KONP’s submission …
Here’s Keep Our NHS Public’s response to the 10 year Health Plan for England. “We would like to see a commitment to the founding principles of the NHS. We would like to see more investment in our publicly provided NHS, not an increase in the use of the private sector. The successful tackling of very long NHS waiting lists in the 2000s was through building [publicly-run] NHS capacity.”

Write to your MP…
…about the Data (Use and Access) Bill. New powers will enable the Secretary of State to introduce, redefine or change conditions for the use of ‘special categories of data’. It makes it easier to share data, so that information collected for one reason, such as healthcare, may be shared with public authorities and private companies who may use it for other purposes, such as immigration control or predictive policing.

New nurses are quitting in 5 years
The number of newly registered nurses and midwives leaving the professions has jumped by almost 50% at a time when nurse recruitment is slowing.