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Our National Health Service is at breaking point. On the backdrop of continued cuts and closures, private companies seek to gain even more of a foothold within the NHS. Continued pay restraint has since the value of NHS staff salaries reduce by 14% since 2010 and there are now 25,000 nursing and 3,500 midwifery … Continue reading Our NHS Saturday 4th March 2017
"No room at the Hospital" protest will take place on Saturday 10th December 1-2.30pm Albert Sq Xmas market. Health users, health workers, pensioner and NHS campaign groups join together to protest at the proposed reduction in NHS beds - 1000 in Greater Manchester. "Over 10,0000 beds have been closed in the last 5 years in … Continue reading “No Room at the Hospital” Protest Saturday 10th Dec 1-2.30pm Albert Sq Christmas Market
Oppose NHS cuts & £billion black-hole, says NHS campaign to Labour ahead of day of action Campaign group Keep Our NHS Public Greater Manchester has a message for Labour in the city region – when other Labour councils are opposing the Tory-driven NHS cuts, why won’t you? On Saturday a national day of action against … Continue reading STP National Action Day – Sat 3rd Dec Market Street Manchester 11.00am
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 … Continue reading STP National Day of Action, 3 December 2016
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+) … Continue reading Don’t Privatise Mental Health Care for our Most Vulnerable Children
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 … Continue reading National NHS Demonstration 4th March 2017
While councils in Greater Manchester collaborate with the plans to privatise our NHS, two councils at the other end of the country are refusing to cooperate as John Furse explains .... Hammersmith & Fulham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) called it a ‘public engagement’. But their October 3rd event at St Paul’s Church, Hammersmith proved to … Continue reading STPs: Secretly Transmitted Privatisation
The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) in Manchester is being cut by Manchester City Council as a result of reductions to the Public Health Budget nationally. FNP is an evidence based early intervention programme that helps to reduce inequalities in some of the most vulnerable groups within our society. FNP improves antenatal health, child health and … Continue reading Latest victim of Devo cuts – Family Nurse Partnership
Sir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester City Council since 1996 and a Labour Party member since 1984 today told the AGM of the Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation that he wants to see less beds in GM hospitals, including Tameside, one of the most deprived areas in the country, with some of the worst … Continue reading Report from the AGM of GM Centre for Voluntary Organisation on devolution
You are invited to the next meeting of Trafford Keep Our NHS Public next Thursday, 10th November, at 8pm onwards at The Robin Hood Pub, 125 Barton Rd, Stretford, Manchester M32 9AF. With "Devo Manc" arrangements for integrating health and social care in Greater Manchester steaming ahead, we'll hear from Jo Harding, the Chair of … Continue reading Trafford Keep Our NHS Public 10th Nov
MPs – please support the NHS Reinstatement Bill 2nd reading on 4th November The 2016 NHS Reinstatement Bill is up for its second reading in the House of Commons on Friday November 4th, as a 10 Minute Rule Bill. Please ask your MP to support the Bill. It is unlikely to get a debate, because it … Continue reading Please support the NHS Reinstatement Bill 2nd reading on 4th November
Greater Manchester Keep Our NHS Public today condemned the call by Manchester city council leader Richard Leese for local hospitals to have less beds. Sir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester City Council yesterday told the AGM of the Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation that he wants to see less beds in GM hospitals, including Tameside, … Continue reading Manchester council leader’s call for less hospital beds condemned
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 … Continue reading Simon Stevens in Manchester Tuesday 15th November 6.00pm
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-plans-to-dismantle-our-nhs Today Monday, Camden Council put the “full” draft version of the North Central London Sustainability and Transformation Plan on its website, despite NHS England telling Clinical Commissioning Groups that they shouldn’t publish the STPs until NHS England has seen them and made them fit for public consumption. Let's let our Council leaders know we … Continue reading Two councils have published their STP plans this Monday…Ask your council to be next!
On Monday 10th October, the campaign to save Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, HandsOffHRI, took its case to Downing Street and the Department for Health. In doing so, we linked up with several other campaign groups facing cuts to local hospital services. We decided to protest together and initially gathered our collective forces in Trafalgar Square. We … Continue reading Health campaigns demonstrate together in ‘one fight’ to save Huddersfield Royal Infirmary
Keep our NHS public Greater Manchester 