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February 3 Events

Tens of thousands of campaigners from all over the UK took part in a day of protest demanding more funding and an end to privatisation of the NHS on Saturday February 3.

There was a 60,000-strong march in London. Some areas also organised their own local events.

Reports and pictures HERE.

Subcos/WOCs

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

EXTENSIVE CONTENT, along with NHS England draft ACO/ACS contracts and MORE on this page

Analysis

Critique of Five Year Forward View, STPs and ACOs and much MORE
STPs: How serious are the proposals?
Detailed analysis published by LSBU, with all 44 summaries available HERE
What NHS Finance chiefs think about STPs
Response to this from Nigel Edwards, Nuffield Trust Will the NHS really need fewer beds in the future?, available HERE

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

Discussion article from Bob Hudson

Fighting Privatisation
and PFI

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STILL USEFUL: MUST READ ...

NHS for Sale
Myths, Lies and Deception

by Jacky Davis, John Lister and David Wrigley

More information here

Hospital Mi££ions

Enjoy HOSPITAL MILLIONS, the pre-ACO version of our interactive Board game of investment and shameless speculation: fun and education online for up to four players.

“I never knew privatisation could be such fun” – J. Hunt (Surrey)

“Only an idiot wouldn’t like this. I hated it.” – D. Davis (Brussels)

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CALENDAR of events

Saturday 28th April 2018
13.10

Sheffield march & rally for the NHS - Save MIU & Walk-in centre
City Hall Sheffield
SHEFFIELD SAVE OUR NHS leads a March and Rally
Meet from 1.30pm outside the City Hall
March from 2pm to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital.
Come and join in this important action to fight for the future of our NHS. Keep the Minor Injuries Unit at Hallamshire hospital and Broad Lane Walk-in Centre open.
Time is short, as Jeremy Hunt is desperate to push ahead with Accountable Care plans which will leave the doors wide open to increased - even total - privatisation.
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Saturday 5th May 2018
12.00-13.00

MAY DAY Rally - Save our NHS
Market Cross Market Place Huddersfield
MAY DAY Rally - Huddersfield TUC
* Save our NHS - Save Huddersfield A&E
* Fight against Austerity & Racism
* Build for 'A new deal for working people' TUC march & rally
Sat 12th May - London
Speakers from HANDSOFFHRI, UCU, UNISON, Kirklees Campaign against Climate Change, UNITE, Kirklees Stand up to Racism, GMB
ALL WELCOME
Please bring your banners
Organised by Hudds TUC & Hudds Community UNITE
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Saturday 5th May 2018
11-1.00pm

Happy 70th Birthday NHS Birthday 'Tea Party' on the seafront
Margate
Organised by Thanet TUC and Save Our NHS in Kent
More details to come - Facebook

Thursday 10th May 2018
6.30-8.30pm

NHS Activist Meeting Free, For All, Forever
Unite Holborn, Theobalds Rd, London WC1X
Building the June 30 celebration/demonstration
#OURNHS70

Newsblog

The Independent Reconfiguration Panel critical of CCG's handling of the Horton. But has the Horton been saved?

In 2016 Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group announced the planned closure of obstetrics at the Horton Hospital in Banbury and the centralisation of obstetrics at the John Radcliffe Hospital ...

Read the full item, and other breaking news

Info links

Links to important new information on other websites

Brexit blamed as record number of EU nurses give up on Britain Guardian gives latest figures as NHS England and NHS Improvement keep their heads in the sand denying scale of recruitment & retention crisis.

GP practices face funding threat as online service ‘targets’ young people Update blog from Dr David Wrigley for Our NHS/Open Democracy on the latest wheeze to substitute apps for care.

Homes of elderly should be used to fund social care, NHS head says Simon Stevens dredges up the key proposals of the discredited Griffiths Report of 1988, which from 1993 transferred long term care from NHS (free at point of use) to local govt social services (means tested charges). This was the launch point for massive privatisation, fragmentation, underfunding and chaos in domiciliary care (destruction of Home Help services) and expansion of poor quality privately provided nursing home/residential care. We need to break from this, not revisit the same nonsense.

A separate NHS tax would only further its fragmentation Guardian piece by Green MP Caroline Lucas nails the hoary old zombie idea as it creeps out again, stirred back into BBC and right wing headlines by Blairites and others with no real concept of the NHS and its value.

Care for 13,000 Britons at risk as provider seeks rescue plan Guardian report on the latest social care provider struggling to survive after a decade of cuts.

Time to put care into the system Online facts and figures on the melt-down of England's social care system from Which magazine.

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