Keep Our NHS Public

Keep Our NHS Public (KONP) is a campaigning organisation, with local groups across England, committed to reversing the ongoing privatisation of the NHS and its services.

The group was founded in 2005 by the NHS Consultants Association, the NHS Support Federation and Health Emergency. It was very active in the campaign against the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

It has local groups which are involved in campaigns against the closure or reorganisation of local hospitals, such as the Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign. It attracted support from many existing health related campaigns such as Save Finsbury Health Centre It has been very vocal in denouncing the use of private health providers to treat patients outside the health service.

In early 2013 the American and EU governments began negotiating an agreement on free-trade between nations known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). KONP have since committed an ongoing effort to prevent the partnership and its provisions from leading to the increased marketisation of European healthcare systems, allowing the entrenching of privatised healthcare in the British NHS. KONP have established concerns with regards to the extent of deregulation on transnational companies, allowing them to sue national governments in certain situations.

The Organisation Listed Four key recommendations regarding the TTIP:

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