The NHS Support Federation is a pressure group that supports the UK

National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the term for the publicly funded health care, publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom: the National Health Service (England), NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care (Northern ...

. 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. It helped to establish the

Keep Our NHS Public Keep Our NHS Public is a campaigning organisation, with local groups across England, committed to reversing what it describes as the ongoing privatisation of the NHS and its services. History The group was founded in 2005 by the NHS Consulta ...

campaign. Professor Harry Keen was the president of the federation and an active member for many years. It monitors the NHS tendering processes.

Jeremy Corbyn Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (; born 26 May 1949) is a British politician who has been Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North (UK Parliament constituency), Islington North since 1983. Now an Independent ...

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. In 2017 it produced an analysis of

Sustainability and transformation plan In England, a sustainability and transformation plan (STP) is a non-statutory requirement which promotes integrated provision of healthcare, including purchasing and commissioning, within each geographical area of the National Health Service (Engl ...

s pointing out that cuts in acute services were being made without prior investment in community facilities.

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Medical associations based in the United Kingdom Organisations based in Brighton and Hove Organizations established in 1989 English health activists {{activism-stub