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Integrated Care Monitor: the NHS England consultation

Safety Watch
Help us log the safety hazards undermining our NHS

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new forms of privatisation
We gather as wide a range of information as possible on the fight to defend NHS jobs against the new outsourcing. Check out the page HERE

Find your local campaign

Click on the link here and then on the map or enter your town, city or postcode to find organisations near you fighting to defend OUR NHS.

Check the health of your local NHS

The TUC and NHS Support Federation have joined forces to publish an excellent tool which allows you to check the health of the NHS in your area.

 Enter your postcode and find out what the shortfall is in GPs, hospital staff and hospital beds in your local area as a result of 8 years of Tory austerity – then email your MP and spread the link to your friends, family and neighbours.
  • Click here for the NHS Health Checker tool




    • Analysis

    Read this report compiled in June 2018    . It was commissioned by UNISON Eastern Region to give members and representatives a realistic analysis of the situation in each STP area.

    Council Fightback
    Some councils are taking a stand against STPs – but many are not, and are actively collaborating in plans which lack any public endorsement.

     read more here

    Debating the Future of Social Care
    read more here

    Fighting Privatisation
    and PFI

    STILL USEFUL: MUST READ ...
    NHS for Sale
    Myths, Lies and Deception

     by Jacky Davis, John Lister and David Wrigley

     More information here


    Health Campaigns Together
    newspaper No 13 - NOW OUT!


     In our 4th year of quarterly publication, issue 13 (January 2019) is now available here online. Printed copies of the 12-page full colour tabloid will be available from January 8. We SOLD ALL COPIES of our last issue, so order now to avoid disappointment.

     Features include the Safety Campaign, a look forward towards the Long Term Plan and back at the Five Year Forward View, reports from our Social Care Conference, pages of campaign news from around the country, two pages on mental health, and a special feature from Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth MP … plus much more.

     Every issue is FREE to read online. For campaigning, order bundles ONLINE NOW.

    DID YOU MISS OUR EARLIER ISSUES? Download back issues of the newspaper here

    Help us do even more in 2019


     2018 – our third year – was a busy year for Health Campaigns Together.

     Despite having no office, no paid staff and minimal resources we have published FOUR quarterly issues of our newspaper, run stalls at THREE major union conferences, spoken at and publicised public meetings all over England, and worked with allies to build
    • TWO major demonstrations in London (February 3 and June 30)
    • A ground-breaking conference on Social Care in Birmingham
    • A mass petition exposing NHS England’s secretive Integrated Care Provider contract

    But all this and much more other work has drained our limited resources. To step up the effort further next year, and drive forward the campaign to Make Our NHS Safe For All, we need to raise more funds.

     So, in the season of gift-giving, we are appealing to all those organisations and individuals who support what we are doing to put Health Campaigns Together on your gift list this year.

     Please send us a donation, as large as you can afford, to help us achieve even more in 2019. Anyone donating who wishes to do so can join our regular mailing list and keep in touch with what we are doing.

     Anything you donate, either as a one-off donation or as a regular standing order, will go towards supporting the work of the campaign.

     It’s best for us if you can make direct payments online to our Coop Bank account, Sort Code 08-92-99, Account Number 65797921 but please email us at healthcampaignstogether@gmail.com to let us know how much you have paid.

     If you are unable to make payments online, cheques are very welcome. Please make out to Health Campaigns Together, and send to us c/o 102 Corve Street, Ludlow SY8 1EB.



    Social Care conference a big success

    Well over 100 people from all over England took part in the successful Reclaim Social Care conference called by Health Campaigns Together in Birmingham on November 17, in collaboration with the Socialist Health Association, the National Pensioners Convention and others.

     More pictures and reports, along with background facts and info on social care, are available HERE.


    June 30: tens of thousands celebrate and demonstrate for #OurNHS70

    See HERE for a collection of news, video and pictures from the day

    CALENDAR of events

    Sunday 27th January 2019
    6:30 pm

    Spit & Sawdust Music Hall

    The Regal Theatre, Tenbury Wells

    One night only - audience invited to dress in period costume!
    All proceeds to be donated to Shropshire Defend Our NHS Campaign.



    Thursday 31st January 2019
    10:00am to 1:00pm

    Long Term Plan is
    Unfunded, Undemocratic, Unsafe!

    Skipton House,
    80 London Road
    Elephant and Castle
    London SE1 6LH

    RALLY OUTSIDE NHS ENGLAND BOARD MEETING, called by Keep Our NHS Public.
    Please come and join fellow KONP supporters in protesting the government's NHS long term plan.
    KONP

    Saturday 16th February 2019
    1.00pm- 3pm

    Hands Off QEQM!

    Margate Methodist Church Hall
    Union Crescent
    Margate CT9 1PL
    (near Cecil Square)

    This is a meeting for the general public, arranged by Save Our NHS in Kent. We will be discussing the future of the QEQM, the plans that threaten A&E, maternity and stroke treatment for the people of Thanet, and we will be taking questions from the public. We want to hear your views.
    Please be sure to put this in your calendar, and spread the word to your friends, colleagues and family.
    The people of Thanet need to come together and fight back to ensure we have the health services we deserve, for ourselves and for the next generation.
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    Saturday 30th March 2019
    11.30 -2pm

    Yorkshire Health Campaigns Together Demonstration

    Leeds Art Gallery

    Continuing a long line of spring demonstrations in Leeds to defend health services in Yorkshire and the North.
    No cuts, No closures, No charges!
    NHS Long term Plan is Unfunded, Undemocratic, Unsafe!
    Starts and finishes at Leeds Art Gallery!

    Contact Leeds organisers

    Newsblog
    What hope for a ten year plan for the NHS?

    The repeated postponement of the 10-year “long term plan” for the NHS called for during the summer by Theresa May is partly a product of the fixation on Brexit – but partly a reflection of the cleft stick in which NHS England is trapped ...


    Read the full item, and other breaking news

    Info links

    Links to important new information on other websites
    • Carillion Pocketed £205m Despite Finishing Just 10% Of Much-Delayed Hospital Huffington Post reports on Birmingham's Midland Metropolitan Hospital: "Construction giant Carillion earned £205million from a contract to build a multi-million pound hospital despite completing just 10% of vital engineering work before it went bust.

    • STATEMENT FROM MEDWAY COUNCIL Document to KENT AND MEDWAY STROKE REVIEW JOINT HEALTH OVERVIEW AND SCRUTINY COMMITTEE argues the proposals for centralisation are wrong. "Medway Council believes that the proposed sites that have been selected for the
      provision of HASUs (Darent Valley, Maidstone and William Harvey, Ashford) are not in
      the best interests of the health service in Kent and Medway. Furthermore, Medway
      Council believes that there were flaws in the way that the Joint Committee of Clinical
      Commissioning Groups was led to choose the selected sites. This invalidated the criteria
      used on the public consultation documents and failed to provide evidence to support the
      evaluation criteria."

    • Are patients benefiting from integrated care? Fascinating figures from the Nuffield Trust show the case for integration is far from proven; on several measures patients do worse.

    • Future Fit officials criticised over Newport venue for crucial vote Shropshire Star reports local Defend our NHS has voiced criticism of the location and the timing of an important meeting, claiming that people using public transport will be unable to attend.: "A vote over the future of Shropshire's health services will be taken by a 15-person panel at Newport's Harper Adams University on January 29.
      "The result of the vote will confirm whether the county's only A&E department is based at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital or Princess Royal Hospital Telford. "

    • RCEM statement on four-hour target speculation Statement by Royal College of Emergency Medicine says:
      "The four-hour ECS has been a resilient, sophisticated and very successful overall marker of a hospital's emergency care system performance for the last 15 years. Sadly, the past five or six years has seen a steady deterioration in system performance due to under investment in acute hospital bed capacity, cuts in social care funding and understaffing in EDs. This has resulted in a significant increase in the number of crowded EDs which scientific evidence clearly shows is linked to increased mortality and morbidity for patients. It also results in secondary attritional harm to staff having to work in such environments which further compromises patient care.”

    • Concerns raised about lack of consultation on targets review (£) HSJ report on complaints by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine that they have not been consulted by NHS England on revision of targets for A&E performance.


     Search our info links database, or read ALL of them here


    Join Us – Affiliate NOW

    Major national affiliates now include UNISON, Unite, NEU (Teachers’ union) and FBU. But for strong campaigning we need local union branches and regional bodies to affiliate along with campaigners. The Green Party has also affiliated – and we welcome CLPs and other Labour Party bodies. HCT remains non-party, but very political – join us now!

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