NHS Support Federation

The NHS Support Federation is a pressure group, founded in 1989 which campaigns "to protect and improve the NHS, keeping it true to its founding principles." It is based in Brighton. [1] It helped to establish the Keep Our NHS Public campaign.

Professor Harry Keen was the president of the federation and an active member for many years.[2]

It monitors the NHS tendering processes.[3] Jeremy Corbyn cited the work of the Federation in his re-election campaign in 2016 as showing that £16 billion in NHS contracts had been awarded "through the market" since April 2013.[4]

In 2017 it produced an analysis of Sustainability and transformation plans pointing out that cuts in acute services were being made without prior investment in community facilities.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "About us". NHS Support Federation. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  2. ↑ "Professor Harry Keen: Pioneer in the field of diabetes and staunch defender of the NHS". Independent. 14 April 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  3. ↑ "Virgin Care wins £700m contract to run 200 NHS and social care services". Guardian. 11 November 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  4. ↑ "Jeremy Corbyn pledges to 'renationalise' the NHS". BBC News. 24 August 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  5. ↑ "Sustainability and Transformation Plans: Find out about your STP". NHS Support Federation. March 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
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