Keep our NHS public Greater Manchester

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 →