Many, many thanks to all of you who have written to councillors to request the Sustainability and Transformation Plans and appendices be published on the Council websites. https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-plans-to-dismantle-our-nhs Resistance to publishing the financial, activity and workforce appendices to the plans is widespread, and even an FOI has been rejected. The shift away from NHS accountability…
Protect Trafford Children’s Health Trafford Council (and Pennine Care) are trying to keep their plans for the most vulnerable children in the borough, away from Trafford residents. As part of their new, vamped, Children’s Services, they plan to remove all clinical psychology support from the “Keep Families Together and Fostering Plus” (KFT & F+)…
HCT is calling a national demonstration in London on 4th March . We believe the time has come to demonstrate the breadth and depth of support for the NHS and anger and opposition to the destructiveness of Tory policies. Sat 4th March is going to be a big demonstration. With Britain’s biggest union, Unite, already…
Simon Stevens together with his managment consultant and government friends is one of the architects of the devastating cuts now sweeping the NHS. The crazed plans to cut £billions from NHS jobs and services will be a disaster for patients and staff alike. The further involvement of private healthcare companies, possibly including Mr Stevens’ previous…
You will probably know by now that all the mental health services in Manchester which were threatened with closure are to remain open. The Manchester CCGs and Manchester Mental Health & Social Care Trust backed down just a couple of weeks before the services were due to be shut. They decided not to contest legal…
On Tuesday and Wednesday the 26th and 27th April the BMA junior doctors are on strike again. There will be picket lines at all hospitals. Please go along if you can. Please see the attached Letter of invitation from a junior doctor at the Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust. There will…
Campaign meeting Thursday 7th April, 5.30pm-6.30pm, Mechanics Institute, 103 Princess Street, M1 6DD (entrance on Major Street, near Chorlton Street Bus Station and Portland Street). (This precedes the Manchester TUC meeting to support the Junior Doctors – see below) We are organising a short meeting to discuss MMHSCT’s decision to proceed with closing 8 frontline…
