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Craig #Whittaker MP supports hospital closure clause in #Care Bill
The law courts twice ruled that the Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt was acting unlawfully in trying to force closures at South Lewisham Hospital, in order to redirect its funding to a nearby NHS Trust that had been bankrupted by Private Finance Initiative re-payments and taken into the control of Trust Special Administrators. So now the ConDem government is changing the law to give precisely this power to Trust Special Administrators who have been brought in to deal with failing NHS Trusts. And Calder Valley MP Craig Whittaker has voted for this new legislation.
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#Calderdale #NHS 38 Degrees stall 18th Jan and meeting 13th Feb
Calderdale NHS 38 Degrees campaign group will be holding a public information stall in Sowerby Bridge market on Saturday 18th January from about 11am to about 1pm ish, if anyone wishes to come down and find out more about what is quietly going on behind our backs in the NHS reorganisation.
The date of the group’s next meeting is Thursday 13th February 6-8pm at the Ring o’Bells pub in Halifax, – 3 Upper Kirkgate HX1 1QS. New members are always welcome. The group campaigns to keep the NHS public and stop backdoor privatisation of the NHS.
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Chairman of #Calderdale #Healthwatch Board resigns over lack of accountability and transparency
Dr Chris Day has resigned as the Chair of Calderdale Healthwatch Programme Board. His resignation took place at the Board’s meeting on 13th January, after the Board voted in favour of a motion to exclude the public from the meeting.
Dr Day said,
“I opposed this motion and took a vote, but the motion was carried and I stood down as chair of the Board. I explained that I believed transparency and openness were being rejected in this motion and that I believed them to be such fundamental operating principles that I could not continue in this role. The public were removed from the meeting.”
Public meeting of #Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group Governing Body 16th Jan
The next public meeting of Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Governing Body is at 2-4pm, 16th January in Shibden Meeting Room, F Mill, Dean Clough. (This is near the Travelodge Hotel.)
All the papers for the meeting are downloadable from the Calderdale CCG website.
If you want to ask any questions, the CCG prefers you to email them by noon the day before the meeting, but you can also fill in a form on the day, before the meeting, and then hand it in. The person to email questions to is Jane Brownlie – her email address is: jane.brownlie@calderdaleccg.nhs.uk
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Calder Valley Labour candidates hammer home the cost of Cameron
Mytholmroyd residents found the Labour Party knocking on their doors on Saturday 11th January.
Josh Fenton Glynn at a Mytholmroyd voter's door
Commemorate 30 year anniversary of miners strike at Trades, 12th March
Calderdale Trades Council are commemorating 30 years since the miners’ strike, on 12th March at the Trades Club Hebden Bridge.
This will be Calderdale Trades Council’s first big public event, so please put this date in your diary, and help them to make it a success.
Hebden Royd Town Council refuses to meet Sainsbury’s
Hebden Royd Town Council has unanimously passed Cllr Dave Young’s motion that the Council should refuse Sainsbury’s request for a meeting to discuss their proposal to build a Sainsbury’s Local on the old fire station site on Valley Road, and should instead invite Sainsbury’s to call a public meeting to discuss their proposals.
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Hebden Royd Town Council to decide on Sainsbury’s request for meeting
Hebden Royd Town Council meeting at 7.30pm on 8th January will hear of Sainsbury’s request to meet the Council, in order to discuss their plans to build a Sainsbury’s Local supermarket on the site of the former fire station on Valley Road.
The Town Council will consider this request for a meeting as part of Agenda Item 4 – Communications from the Mayor and Town Clerk. A number of Hebden Bridge people have also written to the Town Clerk about Sainsbury’s plan, and the Council will also hear their emails and letters.
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#CraigWhittaker MP – 2013 Donations and Register of Interests
During 2013, Calder Valley MP Craig Whittaker received donations worth £57,468.77, according to Search The Money website.
The screenshot from the Search The Money website gives the breakdown of the donations:
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