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John Furse The Americanisation of the NHS is not something waiting for us in a post-Brexit future. It is already in full swing. Since 2017 Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) have been taking over the purchasing as well as the provision of NHS services in England, deciding who gets which services, which are free and which … Continue reading The NHS Dismantled
Trying to explain the darker side of NHS England dirty tricks. We have a petition that needs to succeed as it can STOP CCG MERGERS and STOP USA Healthcare from becoming our NHS. Petition: Stop all NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups’ mergers.
Monday 30th September 7pm The Marquee, Piccadilly Gardens Our NHS would be up for grabs in trade deals after Brexit and under World Trade Organisation rules. It’s our NHS and we have to fight together for it - against international deals and UK- based profiteers. Come and hear how you can play a part in … Continue reading NHS Not For Sale – We Own It
Strike action involving 31 staff employed by Addaction is set to go ahead after Acas talks did not reach a resolution to their dispute on Wednesday. A 100% vote for strike action was prompted by Addaction’s failure to keep its promise to pay staff the NHS rates for the job. Their union UNISON says that … Continue reading Wigan and Leigh drug and alcohol staff take strike action
It's time to act. Almost 7000 mental health nurses were lost from 2009 to 2018. Meanwhile, the number of doctors in specialist psychiatric training fell by 20%, and beds available for patients with serious mental health issues fell by over 8000. That's why we're holding a one-day conference in September this year to take a … Continue reading There is a crisis in mental health services in the UK
Reclaim Social Care- a petition for Greater Manchester We understand that local authority funding has been viscously cut by successive governments, since 2008. However we also understand that it is the legal responsibility of local authorities to deliver support and care to vulnerable people within their communities. We call on you, Andy Burnham, as mayor … Continue reading Reclaim Social Care- a petition for Greater Manchester
Circle Healthcare have failed in their attempt to force local NHS Commissioners to award them the new contract to run the Nottingham Treatment Centre at the QMC. The High Court of Justice in London agreed that the contract should go to the Nottingham University Hospital Trust, as originally proposed. This means that all services at … Continue reading VICTORY FOR THE NHS OVER CIRCLE HEALTHCARE
Health & Social Care for People not for Profit 11- 1. NHS 10 year plans – organising the fight back against Integrated Care Systems: ‘anybody but a doc’approach to primary care, an app a day, shrinking hospitals, rationing, outsourcing, charging migrants ... 1.30-3 Getting the market out of Social Care, pursuing an Independent Living Service, … Continue reading NORTHERN CONFERENCE Saturday 29th June 11- 4.30 at St. George’s Centre LEEDS LS1 3DL
Salford, Wigan and Preston showed the highest levels of air pollution in the country today ( Jan 24th ) yet there seems little concerted coordinated effort being made to tackle this public health emergency. Levels of nitrogen dioxide, mostly produced by diesel vehicles, have been illegally high since 2010 in the vast majority of urban … Continue reading 40,000 Air Pollution Deaths A Year – Time For Action Greater Manchester.
Deborah Harrington We all like human stories and in the NHS there are plenty, tales of everyday – and extraordinary – heroism by its dedicated staff alongside tragedies and failure of the system. There are the immediately understandable stories of privatisation, too, such as Virgin taking over children’s services. But the structures and organisation of … Continue reading The Americanisation of the NHS, happening right here, right now
Elements of the Plan released show it represents a top-down imposition of tighter central control – and contains a dangerous new step towards forcing trusts to sell “surplus” land and assets to reduce deficits, along with an explicit instruction to trusts to increase “commercial” (private) external income – with benchmark targets set for each trust … Continue reading NHS Long Term Plan impact
Theresa May’s launch of the NHS Long Term Plan this morning should fool no-one in Liverpool. Despite the mild weather, the Royal Liverpool has been on Red Alert at least 25 times since 1 December. Bed occupancy is 92.3%, against a safe level of 85%. In December, 495 ambulances waited over 30 minutes to discharge … Continue reading Theresa May and NHS reality
Powerful songs, dynamic music, unique video footage and moving storytelling. GMKONP are staging a production of ‘Free For All’ at Stockport Labour Club on 4th December, at 7.30pm with doors opening at 6.30pm. Banner Theatre’s Free For All pays tribute to a health service still rated the most efficient and successful in the world. … Continue reading Free For All – Tue 4th Dec
Keep Our NHS Public Greater Manchester and 999 Call for the NHS are proud to present: For One Night Only......... Accidental NHS Activist Steven Carne brings his own Special Measures to Manchester for a unique cabaret night. A musical comedy web of parliamentary intrigue, media skullduggery and rubber duck battles. Not every show mashes up … Continue reading Special Measures – Fri 16th Nov
NHS England is consulting on the contract for a new model of health and social care provision that threatens the break-up of the NHS into units run by less accountable ‘Integrated Care Providers’ – or ‘ICPs’. Each of these ‘business units’ would control spend and rationing of healthcare for populations of up to 500,000. These huge … Continue reading Integrated Care Providers
