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This autumn sees the opening of the Trafford Care Co-ordination Centre. All GP referrals in Trafford and it seems social care as well, will be sent to this new centre. Sounds great you may say...it certainly seems that way in the corporate video you can watch here According to Trafford CCG (Clinical Commissioning Group- … Continue reading What could be worse than a privatised NHS ?
By Dr Bob Gill @drbobgill Introduction The latest assault on the NHS involves the imposition of a new contract for junior doctors that will see their salaries slashed by 30% with requirement for evening and Saturday work (1). The excuse used to justify this change is to provide a 7 day service and improve patient … Continue reading Junior Doctors’ contract and American corporate takeover of the NHS
Wednesday: Not Safe, Not fair - Support our Junior Doctors and Save the NHS Public Rally Nov 11 7pm Manchester Cathedral Guest speaker : Rufus Hound, comedian. Plus new addition of the fantastic Bread & Roses choir. Chaired by Julie Hesmondalgh, Actor and Patron of Manchester People’s Assembly. See more details and book your ticket here. … Continue reading Support our Junior Doctors and Save the NHS Public Rally Nov 11 7pm Manchester Cathedral
4 November, 2015 | By Sarah Calkin The Department of Health is to press ahead with its planned blanket in-year cut to public health budgets, despite the majority of local authorities backing alternative options. The announcement this afternoon comes almost five months after the chancellor first revealed plans for the £200m cut and two months … Continue reading In-year public health cut confirmed
THE company in charge of running non-emergency ambulances for patients across Greater Manchester has admitted “overstating performance standards” and incorrectly claiming more than £1.5 million in incentive payments for its services. Arriva Transport Solutions Ltd currently provides non-emergency patient transport services (PTS) to Greater Manchester’s 12 Clinical Commissioning Groups — including in Bolton. The firm recently … Continue reading Privatised Patient Transport Company over claimed £1.5 million
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/caroline-molloy/billions-of-wasted-nhs-cash-noone-wants-to-mention This account summarises the issues very nicely. The most recent quote it cites, £30 billion a year spent now on the NHS market looks perfectly possible to me as a current cost of the NHS market, though probably is no higher than that as yet. I calculated the £10 billion cited a couple of years … Continue reading NHS market costs: calculations & key CAUTION by Lucy Reynolds
A way of stopping the cuts and privatising of the NHS and the systematic wrecking of staff conditions is to get the NHS Bill made into law. But that won’t happen with a Tory majority unless there is massive public support for the Bill in the next few months. Keep Our NHS Public has a … Continue reading NHS Bill 2015: Take it to your union, your council and your MP
UNISON, Manchester Community & Mental Health branch, is extremely concerned about the state of mental health services in Manchester. Services and staff are near breaking point in Manchester – which is a local scandal. It’s a national scandal too, that mental health services generally are still so poorly resourced. We are campaigning for adequate funding, … Continue reading Manchester deserves better mental health services
On Saturday 17th of October in London, over 15,000 Junior Doctors marched on Parliament Square. We marched to protest the imposition of a contract that would see junior doctors being stretched, working longer hours with a significant reduction in our pay. We marched to protect patients from being seen by over-exhausted error-prone doctors in the … Continue reading Junior Doctors – Our Message To The Public
Keep the Well Being Centre Open The petition was handed in to the council's central area committee. We will be lobbying the full council on 29/10/16 at 5.30pm , Stockport Town Hall and then go in to ask questions from the public gallery. Come and join us. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/petition-handed-stockport-council-against-10224411 Cuts to Mental Health Support Workers Stockport … Continue reading Stockport Against Mental Health Cuts – News
Rally & Protest: NHS Not For Sale @ Central Hall, 11:30am Public meeting followed by ‘Wall of Sound’ sirens protest outside the Tory Conference. Organised by People’s Convention for the NHS, Keep our NHS Public, & other NHS campaigns
NHS: The foxes have control By Tamasin Cave ‘The whole point of our NHS reforms,’ David Cameron said, is ‘to put the power in the hands of local doctors, so that they make decisions based on what is good for their local area.’ That is tosh. Yes, most of the NHS budget was handed … Continue reading NHS: The foxes have control
17 September, 2015 | By Lawrence Dunhill A troubled foundation trust has been taken out of special measures, the support mechanism for struggling NHS organisations, after it agreed to undergo a radical transformation to achieve savings of £28m by 2020. Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is set to become an integrated care organisation, following recommendations … Continue reading Tameside Hospital exits special measures but must become “Integrated Care Organisation”
PLANS TO CUT MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT WORKERS Stockport Council is proposing cuts to mental health support workers in community mental health teams. These teams have suffered an 8% cut already, with planned new cuts proposals on their way for consultation. Support workers have a unique and important role in providing much needed support to people … Continue reading Stockport Against Mental Health Cuts
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