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New NHS head Simon Stevens is key player in private healthcare network
Simon Stevens, the new NHS England head, is one of the key folk who’s been responsible for driving private healthcare companies’ capture of UK governments and the NHS.
Simon Stevens was formerly president of US/global private healthcare company United Health. Before that, he was involved in the private health care advocacy think tank Kings Fund, and was central to New Labour‘s NHS privatising reforms.
Warm in Winter, Cool Forever – New Straw Works building courses!
Straw Works, a Todmorden company run by award winning strawbale builder Barbara Jones, is running a new series of courses in Todmorden over the winter.
Barbara Jones at Incredible Edible Mytholm's Field Day in March
Big Six energy companies today, NHS tomorrow – unless we look sharp…
Look what’s happening to the privatised energy sector –
- poorly-regulated Big Six energy companies in positions of near-monoploy raking in whacking profits
- a revolving door between government, the civil service and big fossil fuel companies that makes a mockery of democracy
- huge public subsidies that serve as risk capital for companies that won’t otherwise invest – for example in the new Hinkley Point nuclear power station
- high household energy bills
- loads of people dying because they can’t afford to heat their homes
UK government stonewalls EU investigation into blanket bog burning
The EU Commission has invited Hebden Bridge campaigners to comment on findings from the first stage of its investigation into Natural England’s 2012 management agreement and Higher Level Stewardship agreement with Walshaw Moor Estate Ltd (WMEL).
Both agreements cover Walshaw Moor Estate Ltd ’s intensified use of the moors for its grouse shooting business.
Coalition seeks to change law so it can shut A&E and hospitals without consultation
Reposted from OpenDemocracy under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 licence.
Commenting on the article’s report that last-minute amendments to the Care Bill would allow the Coalition government to shut down A&E departments and hospitals without proper public consultation, Ken Cheslett, Chair of Calderdale 38 degrees NHS campaign group said,
“This is reminiscent of this goverment’s high handed approach to the huge opposition to its Health and Social Care Act, whereby the wishes and needs of local people are overruled in favour of the profit motive.”
CAROLINE MOLLOY 16 October 2013
The government is trying to push through a last minute change to the law to make it far easier to shut down A&E departments and hospitals without full consultation.
Amendments tabled yesterday to the Care Bill – due to have its third reading in the Lords on Monday – give the government or Monitor the right to order any hospital they like to ‘reconfigure’ – in other words, close – with little consultation, to benefit neighbouring struggling hospitals.
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Catalan & Armenian poets at Crown Inn this evening!
Arc Publications warmly invites you to a reading by 2 Catalan poets, Manuel Forcano & Josep-Lluís Aguiló and 2 Armenian poets Violet Grigorian & Hasmik Simonian on Monday 14 October 2013 at 7 pm at the Crown Inn, Crown Street, Hebden Bridge.
Poet Violet Gregorian
Price of admission is £4 / £2 (concessions) on the door.
Food is available until 8 pm
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Bookings for #Hebden Bridge #Picturehouse must conform to #HebdenRoyd Town Council’s Vision Statement
I totally don’t understand the new Hebden Royd Town Council booking policy for the Hebden Bridge Picturehouse. What do you think?
The policy makes the Town Clerk responsible for deciding whether a booking conforms to Hebden Royd Town Council’s Vision Statement, as well as meeting five other conditions necessary to accept the booking.
If the Town Clerk can’t or won’t make this decision, they are to refer it to the Town Council’s Picture House Committee.
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Upper Calder Valley savers create positive investment hotspot
Time was, the proverb went “Where there’s muck, there’s brass.”
But now Calderdale is part of a West Yorkshire hotspot for positive investors – people who invest their savings in businesses that create positive social and environmental results, as well as making money.
This information is included in Positive Investing in the United Kingdom, a report by Ethex, the UK’s first online exchange for positive investments.