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Will you help to monitor Calderdale & Huddersfield drop in sessions on NHS shake-up?

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Plain Speaker is gathering info about how Calderdale and Greater Huddersfield Clinical Commissioning Groups carry out their “engagement” process for the Strategic Review/Right Care Right Time Right Place proposals.

This is to see if they are complying with their legal duties to involve the public in decisions about reconfiguring the NHS. If they’re not, there will be grounds for making a legal challenge to the proposed Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS shake up.

Members of the public, patients, staff and members of various NHS organisations have a valuable role to play, in monitoring public events, staff engagement, community groups engagement and NHS networks engagement. For details, see below. Continue reading →

Public meeting launches campaign to save Calderdale and Huddersfield A&E departments

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A well-attended public meeting in Hebden Bridge yesterday decided to campaign to stop cuts to accident and emergency departments in Calderdale and Huddersfield hospitals and protect vital emergency care services for everyone in the area.

The Upper Calder Valley Save our A&E action group will campaign strongly with other organisations and groups in Calderdale and Kirklees, to make sure that everyone in both areas continues to have proper, safe access to 24 hour emergency services in their local hospitals.
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Demo against Calderdale ConDem Councillors’ budget proposals, 5.15pm Monday 24th Feb

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There will be a demonstration outside HalifaxTown Hall at 5.15pm, before the Budget Council Meeting at 6.00pm on Monday 24th February.

Calderdale Unison is asking all Unions that are members of Calderdale Trades Council to encourage their members to attend the demonstration. Non-union members are also welcome.
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10 days before caredata grab of your confidential medical records, Government puts scheme on 6 month hold

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Latest news update: Wahey! The Coalition government has put this massively flawed scheme on hold for 6 months. Let’s make sure this is a more productive and meaninglful pause than the one they called when they were finding it hard to get the Health and Social Care Act passed.

Before the news that the Government was putting this scheme on hold for six months, if you haven’t already opted out of the unconsented “caredata” collection of your personal confidential GP medical records, you had until 28th February to do this.

Unless you opt out (which is easy, and how to do it is outlined below), your personal confidential GP records will be automatically sent to a new Health and Social Care Information Centre database, without your consent, and regularly updated and linked to other personal confidential data from your visits to hospitals, clinics or social care organisations,
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Demonstrate against ATOS at Halifax Job Centre on Weds 19th February

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Calderdale Protest Against the Bedroom Tax is demonstrating against ATOS at 10am on 19th February outside the Job Centre at Crossfield House, St James Road, HX1 1YS and all are welcome to take part.

Protesters will gather peacefully at the Job Centre which is used by ATOS to carry out discredited Work Capability Assessments.
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SOS Hebden Bridge calls for objections to Sainsbury’s planning application

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SOS Hebden Bridge, variously named as Save Our Shops Hebden Bridge or Sod Off Sainsbury’s Hebden Bridge, is calling on people who don’t want to see a Sainsbury’s Local on the site of the old fire station on Valley Road to write letters asap to Calderdale Council Planning Committee, objecting to the Sainsbury’s planning application.

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NHS England plans to sell your personal confidential data – here’s how you can stop them from grabbing it

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Patients only have until the end of February to opt out from having their personal confidential medical data extracted from GPs’ computers on a monthly basis, without their consent, and sent to a new national database called care.data.

Starting from March 2014, the Health & Social Care Act 2012 requires GPs to send each patient’s Personal Confidential Data (PCD) data to the care.data system without any prior consent – unless patients specifically opt out. It’s simple to opt out, as outlined below.

The care.data system is run by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), using software and services procured from ATOS, a private company.
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#Calderdale #NHS 38 Degrees stall 18th Jan and meeting 13th Feb

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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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