Defend Health services meeting January 7th 6pm Bolton Town Hall
Re-open Trafford General Accident and Emergency
The beds crisis at Wythenshawe Hospital is “wholly predictable, in was in fact predicted”. We demand that the Accident & Emergency unit at Trafford General Hospital is re-opened immediately. A+E departments are not good generators of income for private profits and are therefore to be eliminated wherever possible in this governments' corporate betrayal of our … Continue reading Re-open Trafford General Accident and Emergency
Defend Mental health services in Bolton Salford Trafford.
Campaign to defend Mental health services in Bolton Salford Trafford. Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Trust are considering proposals to close one of the three adult mental health wards at Bolton and another at Salford. Total loss of 29 adult beds. both to be replaced by community care, details of which have not been … Continue reading Defend Mental health services in Bolton Salford Trafford.
Closure of Trafford A+E results in crisis at Wythenshawe within 1 week.
The number of patients going to Wythenshawe is understood to have shot up since November 28, the same day A&E services were stopped at nearby Trafford General Routine operations have been cancelled at Wythenshawe Hospital after a surge in patients to its A&E department. The hospital has described the situation as extreme, with surgery beds … Continue reading Closure of Trafford A+E results in crisis at Wythenshawe within 1 week.
Is the policy to abolish practice boundaries gross stupidity or calculated deception?
The Government and the Department of Health want to abolish GP practice boundaries, making it possible for citizens to register with a GP practice anywhere in England. They have not thought this through and do not seem to understand the consequences of this policy. Or are they deceiving the public and Parliament?
Private providers to gain access to NHS Pension Scheme from April 2014
Pulse article here
The closure of the Horizon Centre – Salford
It is a year since the closure of the Horizon Centre and I am still angry. There was no question we weren't providing the absolute best care we could; we were widely recognized as a beacon of good practice; our budget was peanuts, but still we were decommissioned. The Horizon Centre was a PCT managed … Continue reading The closure of the Horizon Centre – Salford
Get the market out of the NHS- The US EU trade agreement
In this powerful, explosive and revealing guest editorial for nhsManagers, Lucy Reynolds exposes the international trade rules which are driving marketisation, the political collusion behind them and the lack of transparency for the general public. Analysis The privatisers hate the Beveridge system: its value for money makes clear the fact that the privatisers … Continue reading Get the market out of the NHS- The US EU trade agreement
Trafford General A+E Closure
A sad reminder that the A+E Department of Trafford General - Birthplace of the NHS will close at midnight tomorrow 27th November 2013. The event will be marked by a candlelit vigil. An urgent care centre will function from 8.00am till midnight until the next phase of closure is announced. Emergency and major surgery ceased … Continue reading Trafford General A+E Closure
A Healthy Market?
A Healthy Market? BBC Radio 4. File on 4 What do we know about the private companies who are being handed huge swathes of our NHS. Around half of all public sector spending now goes to private companies. In the last year they have received 4 billion of tax payers money, making a profit of … Continue reading A Healthy Market?
Jeremy Hunt shows his contempt for the public
Jeremy Hunt is the man directly responsibly for wasting £billions on privatising our National Health Service and then throwing yet more tax-payers’ money down the drain on twice trying to force closure of a popular London hospital. When confronted by one of our members before last week’s Question Time event in Salford, Mr Hunt’s response … Continue reading Jeremy Hunt shows his contempt for the public
Big Data
Statement on care.data from Information Commissioner's Office "October 2013 Earlier this year, the NHS Commissioning Board (NHS England) announced plans to introduce a new system for collecting and analysing data called care.data. We have, this week, received an updated plan from NHS England which confirms that the data extraction for the care.data system will not … Continue reading Big Data
Salford NHS Support Group are hosting a talk by Professor Ray Tallis at Eccles Town Hall on Monday 16th September at 7.30pm.
Salford NHS Support Group are hosting a talk by Professor Ray Tallis at Eccles Town Hall on Monday 16th September at 7.30pm. Church Street Eccles M30 0LH.Professor Tallis is an international acclaimed author whose works include “NHS SOS: How the NHS was Betrayed”Tickets are £2.50 – Further information Mary- 0797 477 2754
Special showing of a film by Ken Loach The Spirit of 1945
Special showing of a film by Ken Loach The Spirit of 1945This documentary shows how, in 1945, a Britain battered by five years of war built a Welfare State and National Health Service which was the envy of the world. Now that precious legacy is under threat from privatisation. Please come along, see the film … Continue reading Special showing of a film by Ken Loach The Spirit of 1945
What’s being privatised plus a great graphic showing how services put out to tender are overwhelmingly going to the private sector:
What’s being privatised plus a great graphic showing how services put out to tender are overwhelmingly going to the private sector Click Here:
Keep our NHS public Greater Manchester 