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The NHS Support Federation is a pressure group that supports the UK National Health Service. It was founded in 1989 and 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 2016 campaign for re-election as Labour Party leader, 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]

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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. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. 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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