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Leeds Keep Our NHS Public was set up in 2011. We campaign in Leeds with health professionals and patients concerned that the NHS is being fragmented and sold off to the private sector, sacrificing service quality to the profit motive. Join us
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Tomorrow the West Yorkshire town of Ossett holds its lively Beercart procession, as a cart loaded with barrels is pulled into the town centre by up to a hundred Morris dancers from across the country. The procession is followed by the traditional Beercart dance, performed by

St Wilfrid’s Church, #KirbyKnowle #Yorkshire Memorial window to a much loved local doctor. By #HelenWhittaker 2014 St Luke, physician & painter, paints the Virgin & Child. Behind is an open door, beyond which, portraits of key medical figures can be seen Details in ALT text #StainedGlassSunday

For 20 years we've campaigned to save the NHS from cuts & privatisation. We've saved 10 hospitals & stood side by side with NHS staff in dispute. Will you help us to be there for the next 20 years? We urgently need your help. Donate here 🙏 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/20th-anniv... youtu.be/FYxLQABN6Yw

Dementia Friendly Leeds Creative Showcase Wednesday 4 June 11 am - 2.30 pm Performances, talks, Dementia Friendly stalls and a Decades Disco! 🕺 Plus, the first 100 people through the door will receive a free goody bag sponsored by Ghyll Royd Care Homes!

It's National Biscuit Day, which means you're obliged to eat biscuits - and nothing but biscuits - for 24 hours. Anyone caught breaking the rules will be immediately arrested by a police officer dressed as a giant Hobnob. #NationalBiscuitDay

Some of LeedsKONP are heading south for this 👇

Finished painting of the lodge in yesterday’s watercolours - trying to think about a relationship between built and natural forms. Lodge at The Hollies, Weetwood Lane, Leeds Acrylic on canvas, 41 x 51 cm

Stunning view across Upper Wensleydale recently. #YorkshireDales

Yorkshire Miners online! 74 editions from 1977-1983 - read the NUM Yorkshire Area newspaper in full through our online catalogue at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/YMA/... Possibly the only publication to feature both Arthur Scargill and Dr Who (Tom Baker era)

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"It doesn’t require a genius to realise that stripping hundreds of thousands of disabled individuals of benefits intended to enable them to live independently is almost certain to lead to many of them becoming more dependent," on the NHS and social services. lowdownnhs.info/analysis/nhs...

Yorkshire Health Campaigns and upcoming events Yorkshire Health Campaigns minutes in full Please share: NHS Birthday, Leeds National Demo against Austerity, 7th June, London, Leeds KONP will be there

Advance notice – Menwith Hill & Atomic Cabaret on 4th July Atomic Cabaret also in Leeds Menwith Hill Declaration Day flier Atomic Cabaret press release

@celiark.bsky.social 👋 nice to see you here, we're still getting used to bluesky

NHS FightBack holds meeting to oppose Labour government cuts and privatisation - World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

This is a great article about what's happening to the NHS waiting lists, if you have five mins! (It's quite detailed) fullfact.org/health/labou...

What a scandalous waste of £330 million of UK taxpayers! “Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (told) NHS England in a private letter that adopting some of the tools on Palantir’s platform would lead it to ‘lose functionality rather than gain it’.” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-...

International Museum Day yesterday emphasised the theme of community. Our own community here in Harehills and East Leeds have been writing poetry at the museum as part of a writing group. Their work recently went on display, adding to the array of different voices that speak in our museum galleries.

A not-so-Scottish talk on the privatisation of the NHS and how it could be assuaged. This is an interesting watch and discussion for anyone, no matter where they are, as it shows the warning signs to look out for as well as the potential and valid solutions that can be sought. youtu.be/rYEY-RcGTwc

Video/pics: over half a million march through London for Palestine – SKWAWKBOX skwawkbox.org/2025/05/17/v...

What the care visa changes mean for the social care workforce crisis - explainer lowdownnhs.info/social-care/...

Starmer, Immigration and the NHS and social care | Dr John Puntis on the Islam Channel

#SocialistSunday 🌹 #Solidarity ✊ "I've got a United Nations heart bypass, done by a Syrian cardiologist, a Malaysian surgeon, a Dutch doctor, a Nigerian registrar. And these people here talk about sending them back. Half of London would be dead in six months.” Dennis Skinner. #Immigration

Our Co-Chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social appeared on the Islam Channel to speak about the importance of immigration for health and social care, in response to PM Starmer's recent comments. Watch the full interview here: youtube.co www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZehS...

Looking for donations of second hand children's books. Local school needs 300 in order to have a book-sale - for ages between four and twelve. Small numbers could perhaps be sent by post? It might be possible to collect larger donations. Surprising how many brilliant books might be hidden in attics!

Tie down your teapots, everybody!

"You called, we came" Ruby Lopez speaks on the challenges faced by our international colleagues who have come to this country to help us and our citizens but are treated with disdain #rcn25 @rcn.org.uk

Me in the @ipaper.bsky.social. Two fingers to the racist #KeirStarmer and his @labourpartyuk.bsky.social #MigrantsWelcome #RacistsOut

Filey beach sunrise, Yorkshire, photo by Elise Garland.

Join this excellent webinar tomorrow with our friends at @medact.bsky.social on military spending and welfare cuts. CAAT Research Coordinator @smhwpf.bsky.social on the panel.

Recently finished painting of one of the two lodges on Headingley Lane in Leeds, originally built for Headingley Castle - this one, built in 1846, is now part of the Catholic Church's Hinsley Hall

Does tax avoidance explain the NHS outsourcing? lowdownnhs.info/spin-off-com...

Happy #internationalnursesday to our fantastic nurses in #Leeds and #WestYorkshire

Our Co-Chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social said: "If the NHS fails, the economy fails. Now isn't the time to say there's ‘no more money,’ but to invest for the future while creating a fairer taxation system so the rich pay a fair share.” Repost if you agree. www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nhs-...

LerdsKONP at #bannersheldhigh #Wakefield

#BannersHeldHigh event in #Wakefield Championing progressive ideas & policies.

An inconvenient truth for #Labour: #NHS privatisation is entirely un-evidence based and the public has never agreed to it. In fact, all evidence is that #privatisation is: 1) more expensive for taxpayers, and 2) has worse outcomes for patients

NHS waiting times for hip and knee ops have RISEN as private provider contracts have expanded. The result of the private sector picking the least sick NHS patients has left the poorest 20% waiting even longer for care in NHS hospitals. sochealth.co.uk/2025/04/30/n...

Under the watchful eye of a giant inflatable rat, unions and protesters at a bins strike ‘megapicket’ on Friday (May 9) sent a defiant message — they are united and willing to fight on. www.expressandstar.com/news/environ... #StrikeMap #BirminghamBinStrikes #Birmingham

BREAKING 📰 band 2 staff in theatres and maternity at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust are being rebanded, with 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬' back pay! Read more 👉 unsn.uk/CHFT-win 𝐁𝐈𝐆 @unison.org.uk win!

Our friends at the @chpithinktank.bsky.social have developed a handy tool to explore how much profit is leaking out in your local NHS area just in relation to eye care privatisation so that pressure can then be brought to bear on local councillors/ local NHS ICBs 👀👀 www.chpi.org.uk/the-outsourc...

Our Co-Chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social said: "Rather than a valued partner with shared objectives, the private sector is exposed for what it is — a parasitical and ruthless competitor.” morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nhs-...

OUT NOW! -Spotter, the new book by Billy Morris. It’s 2001.Leeds are in Europe. Bowyer and Woodgate are in the dock. Man Utd are in Holbeck. The perfect time for PC Charlie Mills to return to his home town as WYP’s football spotter? amazon.co.uk//dp/B0F6L7VDR9/ #LUFC #ALAW #MOT #Leeds

Today's front page: ELDERLY FACING HUGE WAIT FOR A&E TREATMENT Subscribe to the Morning Star: morningstaronline.co.uk/subscribe

And no healthcare 👇

If you really want to slash NHS bureaucracy then what you need to abolish isn’t one quango, but the “market” system of commissioning & providing - a system that adds £10bns of cost, patient-harming commercial ethos, an “ideological luxury” that delivers nothing. www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/bi...

LeedsKONP at May Day Join us in Wakefield next Saturday for 40th anniversary of Yorkshire's biggest trade union event

Photos from MayDay march in Leeds from @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social

🏆 CHAMPIONS AGAIN OLÉ OLÉ!!!