Hundreds of people turned up at a public meeting in Halifax today to discuss the possible closure of Calderdale A&E, and it was agreed to fight on to keep it open. Continue reading
Halifax public meeting fights for our NHS
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Integrated health and social care in the community is a vehicle for NHS privatisation
NHS England recently announced that it is “looking very actively” at how it can make Clinical Commissioning Groups get involved in commissioning primary care.
From September 2014, NHS England will hand over a role in commissioning primary care to Clinical Commissioning Groups. This handover is related to setting up a new system of integrated primary and community health and social care – just like the new system that the Calderdale and Greater Huddersfield Strategic Outline Case plans to set up.
It doesn’t seem to bother NHS England that this would create a clear conflict of interest for Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), which are groups of local GPs; or that the GPs’ trade union, the British Medical Association, had just a week earlier said it opposed CCGs commissioning or decommissioning GP contracts because of conflict of interest. Continue reading
Halifax says only clowns would cut our NHS
Jeremy Hunt, listen up! Halifax loves the NHS – the people united will never be defeated! (Especially by a bunch of clowns)
A brilliant crowd, made up of hundreds of people from babies to grannies, ambled through Halifax today to deliver the message that only clowns would close Calderdale A&E and cut our NHS. Continue reading
#Sowerby Bridge folk queue to sign petition to protect Calderdale NHS
On Saturday 18th January, people queued in Sowerby Bridge market to sign a petition asking Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group to protect local NHS services from profit-hungry private health companies. Over 80 signatures were added to the petition at the Calderdale 38 degrees NHS campaign group’s information stall.
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#Calderdale NHS privatisation – not what you expect under the Christmas tree
A stall with information about the rapid privatisation of Calderdale NHS surprised many members of the public in Hebden Bridge on Saturday morning.
The stall, under the Christmas tree in St George’s Square, was run by members of Calderdale NHS 38 Degrees, a group which campaigns to keep the NHS public and stop backdoor privatisation of the NHS.
Janet Bertola, a member of Calderdale NHS 38 Degrees group, said,
“NHS privatisation’s going on before our eyes, but we just don’t see it.”
Eileen Wright, a Hebden Bridge resident, admitted:
“I don’t know anything about this.”
Privatised urgent care ambulance service on the cards
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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.
#BMI Healthcare funds private #NHS policy seminars at #Tory and #Labour Conferences
Yesterday, Changing More Than Lightbulbs reported that private healthcare company BMI has funded a private, invitation-only NHS policy seminar at the LibDem conference. This led us to conclude that a vote for the LibDems was likely to be a vote sold to private healthcare companies.
Today, thanks to info from a CMTL contributor, we can report that BMI is also funding private, invitation-only NHS policy seminars at the Labour and Tory Conferences. So in the interests of fairness, it is only right to conclude that a vote for Labour or Tories will also be a vote sold to private healthcare companies.
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Anatomy of the NHS carve up – focus on telehealthcare
Here is how a private company goes about dismantling and profiteering from a much-loved public service, in five easy stages.
Pay for positive spin in a pro-market think tank report
In 2010 Tunstall Healthcare was one of an assortment of private healthcare companies that funded a report on telehealthcare, ‘Healthcare Without Walls: A framework for delivering telehealth at scale’, written by the pro-privatisation think tank, 2020 Health.
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Shocking Ambulance Staff Survey – Microcosm of NHS Attrition
This is re-blogged from the excellent Sqwawkbox blog, with thanks.
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I’ve received a copy of an astonishing, eye-opening survey of ambulance staff in an English NHS Trust. This survey covered the experience and opinions of paramedics in South East Coast NHS ambulance Trust, but its findings could just as easily have come from almost any part of the NHS under this government.
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