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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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Solidarity to the People’s Assembly national demonstration in London today 7 June #WelfareNotWarfare

Great to march with Unite too

Dr John Puntis being interviewed by German TV on the #welfarenotwarfare march #endsocialcaredisgrace

Ready to march for welfare not warfare - for a properly funded, publicly provided NHS for all.

Activist join mass protests today In London #welfarenotwarfare

DISABILITY BENEFITS AREN'T 'HANDOUTS' They are lifelines in a system built on barriers and inequality. Cutting them is an act of systemic violence. #DisabilityRebellion #WelfareNotWarfare #TakingThePIP #TaxTheRich #CAC #StopTheCuts

Heading off soon, back to London. 7+million on waiting lists, endless gushing for privatisation from the latest edition of deeply unpleasant and incompetent health secretaries. The NHS and social care are being failed #welfarenotwarfare

There's just a week until our free #SelfAdvocacy event in #Leeds! We'll have guest speakers, workshops and examples of self-advocacy resources on display. There will also be a light lunch and refreshments for attendees. Registration starts at 9:30am with the event beginning at 10am.

HELP! There's 4 weeks to get little hats in! As part of the Innocent Big Knit campaign, we have a target of 10,000 and are way short of this! Please drop off a.s.a.p. at: Age UK Leeds Bradbury Building Mark Lane Leeds LS2 8JA Thank you!

Sunny in Leeds after the rain.

Eid Al Mubarak to all our lovely NHS staff who do some much for us in Leeds and Yorkshire🌙✨

Guess which MP has received £224,575 from people + companies linked to the private health sector between Jan 2023- March 2025? Wes Streeting, our Health Secretary.🚨 We think these donations should be BANNED! If you agree, please click here to sign! bit.ly/HealthNotWea...

Kirkstall Abbey (Leeds), Evening 1800/1801). Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) Girtin painted Kirkstall, its abbey and village, several times. It was one of his favourite subjects. According to the V&A, in the summer months of 1800

Yes….even doctors wash up 🤣🤣 #fy #fyp #pov #healthcarelife

Our Community #Advocacy Hub timetable for next month is out now! June's first in-person Hub will be at the Seacroft Hub from 10am-1pm on Tuesday 3rd. Learn more about the Hubs, what they are for and what we can support you with at each session by visiting advonet.org.uk/services/com...

Next Leeds KONP stall will be on Thursday 12th June 4.15 – 5.30pm outside Leeds Station

The Alternative Defence Review @cnduk.bsky.social shows that: public investment in health, education, and climate action creates more jobs and greater social benefit than military spending! cnduk.org/ADR/

Only #LUFC player to have his own stained glass window? Eric Stephenson- played 111 games for us and won 2 England caps. Killed in action in Burma, 1944. We played Celtic in a benefit game in May 1947 and the window was installed at Lidgett Park Methodist church in 1948. #LUFC #ALAW #Leeds #MOT

Repost from Instagram: 🚩 LEEDS & WEST YORKSHIRE: We’re coming! Join our We Demand Change summit on Sunday 15th June with @richardburgon.bsky.social, Salma Yaqoob, @stopthewaruk.bsky.social, @standuptoracismuk.bsky.social and more to debate how we turn the tide on despair. 🎟️ tinyurl.com/4ynyn6bh

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