HOW COME WE DIDN'T KNOW? A PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION BY MARION MACALPINE
revised and updated to include the NHS Long Term Plan and Integrated Care Contracts
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(use the 'pause' button for longer views) For references used, see below last slide |
Can you use this exhibition to start or build a local campaign to Keep Our NHS Public? Contact Marion on [email protected] to discuss how you could use it.
The exhibition has been circulating the country since 2014. It has been updated for 2019 to include panels on so-called Integrated Care Systems and Integrated Care Organisations. It also explores the diverse forms that privatisation takes, including PFI contracts; private health companies masquerading as NHS including many GP clinics and diagnostic centres; private hospitals which cherry-pick ‘low risk’ patients; lucrative contracts for highly specialist treatment; healthcare corporations with a history of fraud or tax avoidance; scandalously poor care practice that is no barrier to winning new contracts; private corporations driving government policy on dangerous so-called ‘free trade deals that will open up the UK even further to US corporations. The exhibition highlights the ‘revolving door’ between politicians at all levels and private healthcare corporations.
It is available free to borrow, to display in your area and act as a focus for a meeting/leafleting/getting a group together.
Next showings of How Come We Didn't Know?
Birkenhead: 4 March - 5 April 2020 at The Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Slatey Rd, Birkenhead, Merseyside CH43 4UE.
opening hours:10.00 - 5.00 Wednesday - Sunday (ie: closed to the public on Mondays and Tuesdays)
Judith Varley, a member of Keep Our NHS Public will give a talk about privatisation of the NHS on 13 March and 3 April, both starting at 2.30.
Birkenhead: 4 March - 5 April 2020 at The Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Slatey Rd, Birkenhead, Merseyside CH43 4UE.
opening hours:10.00 - 5.00 Wednesday - Sunday (ie: closed to the public on Mondays and Tuesdays)
Judith Varley, a member of Keep Our NHS Public will give a talk about privatisation of the NHS on 13 March and 3 April, both starting at 2.30.
How Come We Didn't Know - Exhibition in Parliament: 13th March 2019
Exhibition and meeting for MPs and local councillors HOUSE OF COMMONS, 13th MARCH 2019, 6:30-8.00pm Venue: Jubilee Room, House of Commons (wheelchair accessible) Please allow at least 30 mins for entry through security. Chair: Eleanor Smith MP (proposer of 2018 NHS Bill) Speakers: John McDonnell MP Shadow Chancellor (sadly, unable to attend due to Brexit vote clash!), Tony O'Sullivan, Co-Chair of KONP, Peter Roderick, barrister and co-author of NHS Bill 2018/ 2019 This high-profile event provided an excellent opportunity to inform MPs and key local councillors about NHS privatisation. |
Marion Macalpine has also created an exhibition about The Private Finance Initiative. You can see this by clicking this link to People Vs PFI.
Exhibition on tour - used in campaigning throughout the UK
The exhibition has previously been displayed in the Houses of Parliament, Ascot, Birkenhead Art Gallery, Brighton (3 times), Cambridge, Chichester, Cheltenham, Deal, Hackney (twice), Halifax (2 venues), Hammersmith, Haringey, Islington, Lambeth, Liverpool Central Library and the Unite building, the Wirral, Norwich, Sheffield, Southampton, Stroud, Todmorden, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Whitstable and at the conferences of both Keep Our NHS Public and Health Campaigns Together
These are some of the comments viewers have made:
Comments below left in feedback book in Norwich, displayed in the Forum, where the exhibition was banned after it was opened, then in St Margaret’s the Church for Art July/Aug 2017
These are some of the comments viewers have made:
- This exhibition was extremely informative and thought provoking. [It is ] clear how much time, thought and research has been put into developing this. I really hope more of the public will have the opportunity to see this exhibition. Very important that we are informed to what is happening to our NHS so we can campaign against corporate capture. Huge thank you
- A really informative exhibition of the scary reality behind the facades of the awful privateers
- Well done Marion thoughtful and impactful photography .
- A thought-provoking exhibition with powerful visual images complementing the facts. Reveals some highly scary and worrying trends.
- Excellent exhibition -the use of photographs makes the issues raised come to life.
- This brilliant exhibition strongly affirms out sentiments held over many years of the creeping privatisation of the NHS. .... These private organisation have one aim in mind - to completely hand over our much fought for and dearly loved NHS to private companies.
- I knew private companies were leaching public money for their profit. - this exhibition has highlighted the massive scale on which is it happening
- Very important exhibition ,. NHS is suffering death by a thousand cuts. Everyone needs to be made aware of what’s going on.
- Yes this exhibition really does bring the issues and evidence together. The more I find out about the secretive privatisation of our wonderful NHS, the angrier I get.
- 'The exhibition has been a considerable success, a re-focusing of the work in Deal. We're very grateful for its existence.'
- What an eye-opener! We need to know facts like these – where are our media?
- Shocking – I had no idea that our NHS was under such well organised threat. I think a brochure of this information should be available in every GPs waiting room and short eye-catching posters should be made to encourage people to read them.
- I wish people were more aware of what is going on and this exhibition is very much a step in that direction
- Very informative exhibition and revealing of shady practices of which most of us are unaware.
- The information was overwhelming and shocking. It should be in the news every day but I can imagine why it is not.
- This is a brilliant exhibition, terrifying and incredible because it is so direct, easy to take in and understand the huge implications for us all
- Superb work - informative, important and a bit of hope for the future
- This has made me so angry! How come we didn’t know indeed!
- Thank you for this exhibition - it’s a revelation
- A real eye opener about a topic which I knew little about. Keep fighting the good fight.
- Frightening . Real. Believe it.
- Brilliantly revealing and information and absolutely shocking. Needs to be widely shown and publicised. Thank you
- Makes key points so well - few people know the extent to which PFI and privatisation are stripping funds from patient care
- Very important exhibition. It is something more people need to know about
- Privatisation has been happening systematically with dire consequences for patients and health workers. I have personal experience of outsourcing of mammograms and MRIs - so much waste, bureaucracy and inefficiency.
Comments below left in feedback book in Norwich, displayed in the Forum, where the exhibition was banned after it was opened, then in St Margaret’s the Church for Art July/Aug 2017
- Our money pays for these prestigious addresses, their fat pay packets and shareholder dividends before anything is spent on care. Love the display here - more effective than in the Forum.
- I have been so naive. It’s amazing what can be done without people knowing. The NHS is so big and complex that it can be sold bit by bit - like boiling a frog in water !
- This exhibition is chilling. We knew was happening but the extent is overwhelming. Thank you for all the work you have done to mount this.
- This display is an excellent way to present quite a complex but very worrying situation. The high quality photos draw attention and the brief factual story for each photograph is easier to absorb. Well done!
- Not in the slightest exaggeration, unfortunately. My mother is a midwife - the tales I’ve heard are enough to make my blood boil. May the Tories fall, and give those who need help and who give help, a life again.
- You’re right I didn't know but I know now. Thank you,
- Superb insights into ‘the way we live now’. Attlee must be turning in his grave. ILLUMINATING.
- I knew it was bad, but not like this. Thank you for opening my eyes. What about political opposition? Can we save it?
- Fantastic photos ! I hope this exhibition can be seen by all.
- V informative an interesting work. - photos and written pieces together.
- Well done on finding an alternative venue. A disgrace that this was forcibly removed from the Forum. People are blind to the privatisation of our NHS. [From an NHS worker].
- Fantastic show ! Educating and enlightening . thanks.
- I am shocked at this creeping menace. Thanks for telling me !!
- Keep on displaying. It’s a hard battle highlighting ‘corruption’ but this ultimately is what’s going on , even though we can’t call it that !
Todmorden Library: 21st August – 7th September 2019 (Organised by Calderdale and Kirklees Call 999 For the NHS).
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Halifax Central Library, Piece Hall,1st – 17th August 2019 organised by Calderdale and Kirklees Call 999 for the NHS.
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29th June 2019, Northern Health Campaigns Together Conference, St George's Centre, Leeds
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Halifax Kings Cross Library (Calderdale and Kirklees Call 999 for the NHS). 1-30th July 2019
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ENFIELD
Defend Enfield NHS & Enfield Southgate CLP NHS group 18th July - 31st August 2018 The Dugdale Centre, 39 London Rd, Enfield EN2 6DS |
NEWCASTLE
Saturday 23rd June to Saturday 14th July 2018, Mon to Sat, 10.30am to 4pm, free of charge. St.Thomas Church, The Haymarket (next to the Civic centre), Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7PF |
Norwich
Exhibition banned at Norwich Forum. click here for details & protests However, Norwich Action Group arranged alternative venues: from 24th July to Saturday 5th August 2017 at St Margaret;s the Church of Art , St Benedicts St, Norwich NR2 4AQ The Greenhouse: 42-46 Bethel St Norwich NR2 1NR from 7Sept - 14th October 2017 |
Sheffield: 8th to 22nd Nov 2016 at The Old Woolworths Building, Theatre Deli, The Moor Sheffield 11 am 4 pm Mon to Friday, organised by Sheffield Save Our NHS
Sheffield: 8th Nov 'Duty of Care' play to be performed at 7 pm as part of the Festival of Debate at that venue. From 22nd Nov The Quaker meeting House, Sheffield 22nd November: Sheffield Save Our NHS Festival of Debate event Why is the NHS Under so much pressure? 7pm |
Cheltenham Deepspaceworks Art Gallery, Hamilton St, Cheltenham GL53 8HN 23rd - 30th October 2016
23rd October: Showing of film: Sell Off 26th October, meeting with Natalie Bennett and expert panel, |
Birkenhead; Williamson Art Gallery, Slatey Rd, Birkenhead, Wirral, CH43 4UE, 18th April-6th May; open Wed - Sundays 10am-5pm (closed M, T & bank hols)
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Liverpool Central Library, William Brown St, Liverpool L3 8EW Sat 7th May - Sat 4th June 2016
Liverpool, Unite the Union, Jack Jones House, 2 Churchill Way, Liverpool L3 8EF 6th June - 4th July 2016 Stroud Festival for the NHS (original hand-printed version) Stroud Valley Art Space, 4 John St, Stroud, GL5 2HA 17th - 19th June |
Hackney Central Library 18th-28th February 2015
Hammersmith Town Hall; King St W6 9JU
Tuesday 10th March 2015 7.30pm Public Rally: Defend London's Health Service The Rally was called to make our demands to defend the NHS a key election issue. Bringing together people from across the capital including patients, health staff, campaigners and trade unionists can undermine divide and rule tactics of playing one hospital or service against another. Speakers include clinicians, campaigners and politicians serious about defending our NHS with more than warm words. Discussion will highlight campaigning action in the run up to the general election to win the fight to defend our health services. [email protected] https://defendlondonsnhs.wordpress.com/ |
Lambeth KONP meeting in Streatham,
Click here to link to the Brixton Blog page on the How come we didn't know exhibition. |