There were 15 minutes for public questions at the 25th August Calderdale Health and Wellbeing Board meeting, which discussed recommendations about the Calderdale Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP), from a private meeting on 11th August between the Health and Wellbeing … Continue reading
A secret process to cut and further privatise NHS services is charging ahead across England. It goes under the name of Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs). England has been divided into 44 Sustainability and Transformation Plan ‘footprints’ which must make … Continue reading
The Clinical Commissioning Groups have finally published their travel analysis of the effects of closing Huddersfield A&E, which also includes modelling based on the closure of Dewsbury A&E. We are still no closer to knowing whether the already overstretched and … Continue reading
This is the 7th Plain Speaker report on the hospital cuts plans that are scheduled for public consultation, starting at the end of February. It looks at proposals for expanding Calderdale Royal Hospital into a 615 bed acute and emergency … Continue reading
This is the first Plain Speaker report on the hospital cuts plans that are scheduled for public consultation, starting at the end of February. In it you can find out about: Key elements of the plan – called Right Care … Continue reading
Friday 15 Jan was the day that Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS market bureaucrats finally published their pre-consultation business plan for the hospital cuts that have been hanging over us all in Calderdale and Huddersfield for 2 years now. It was … Continue reading
A crucial time for one of the main schemes to cut NHS services is now upon us. From April 2016, NHS Foundation Trusts will be able to to stop providing certain NHS services, that are currently protected. This is due … Continue reading
The clinical model for the proposed Right Care Right Place Right Time scheme, that NHS commissioners and the Calderdale and Huddersfield hospitals have finally agreed after arguing about for two years, could be thrown up in the air yet again … Continue reading
At the 21 October Joint Health Scrutiny Committee meeting, Councillors tried to find out what the NHS competition enforcer, Monitor, actually meant by stating that the hospitals Trust needs to: “maximise the value of the Calderdale Royal Hospital (CRH) PFI … Continue reading
As expected, both Calderdale and Greater Huddersfield NHS commissioners today agreed to postpone the public consultation on proposed hospital cuts and changes. The consultation had been scheduled to start this month. One burning issue for the public is what NHS … Continue reading