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Integrated Care Monitor

Now incorporating STP Watch. Background, news and analysis of Integrated Care Systems

RECLAIM SOCIAL CARE

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Fighting Subcos/WOCs

Unions challenge new form of privatisation. Check out the page HERE

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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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Health Campaigns Together
newspaper No. 13 - limited stock!

Some copies of issue 13 (January 2019) are still available. We SOLD ALL COPIES of our last issue, so order now to avoid disappointment.

Issue 14 will be out early April.

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

Download back issues of the newspaper here

Reclaim Social Care campaign

Following the successful conference in Birmingham on November 17, Health Campaigns Together in collaboration with the Socialist Health Association, the National Pensioners Convention and others has launched a campaign. Conference reports, background facts, figures, etc available HERE.

A leaflet (2 sides of A5) on social care can be downloaded HERE in pdf for printing. Printed copies are available from the Keep Our NHS Public Office in quantities from 10 to 500, at a cost of £1 - £8 for post and packing. Please email KONP.

Don't miss this free offer!

Unhealthy Profits, a full-length book on PFI (normal price £7.50) will be available FREE to download as ebook from Amazon for one weekend only: February 22-24.

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CALENDAR of events

Wednesday 27th February 2019
7.00pm

Keep Our NHS Public in Southwark

67 Balfour Street
London
SE17 1PL

Please come to the founding meeting of Keep Our NHS Public for Southwark
Speaker: Dr Tony O’Sullivan, National Co-Chair of KONP
Keep Our NHS Public is a campaigning organisation, with local groups across England. We are committed to bringing the NHS back from the brink and back into public ownership.
All those living, working or studying in Southwark are welcome
Register for this meeting

Thursday 28th February 2019
19:30 – 21:30 GMT

'Free for All' Banner Theatre's new musical show exposing NHS privatisation

Nottingham Arts Theatre
12 George Street
Nottingham
NG1 3BE

A new hard-hitting, entertaining and inspirational musical show from Banner Theatre - exposing the privatisers making big profits from our NHS.
This show is a must-see for all health workers, trade unionists, health campaigners, students and everyone who wants to stop the NHS pouring public funds into big business bank accounts.
Afterwards there will be a short discussion on local NHS cuts and privatisation, the fightback against them and plans to step up the campaign to save our NHS and keep it 'free for all'.
Sponsored by Unite Nottinghamshire Health Branch
Free tickets from Eventbrite

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

Saturday 30th March 2019
2pm

Stop the new plan to close King George A&E

King George Hospital
Barley Ln, Goodmayes, Ilford
IG3 8YB

Assemble outside the hospital, walk to
Redbridge Town Hall
128-142, High Rd, Ilford
IG1 1DD

Speakers
Bob Archer: Redbridge Trades Council
Nic Dodin: Havering Councillor

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Labour demands £128 million of new NHS contracts are kept in public hands

Labour is today calling on the Health Secretary to block private companies from securing 26 NHS contracts worth over £128 million that are currently out to tender ...

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Info links

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Brexit will make it harder to 'wash, dress and feed' thousands of elderly people Evening Standard highlights warnings from ADASS that social care staff, even lower paid than nurses and not covered by any exemptions, are likely (if not certain) to be excluded from coming to Britain by the government's planned £30,000 minimum income requirement -- worsening the already dire shortages of staff and social care services.

Virtual GP service allowed to expand out of London despite criticism from doctors NHS England continues with its crusade against evidence or evaluation of pilot schemes, giving the nod to Birmingham adopting the controversial privately-led service that has caused financial havoc in general practice across London and which has yet to be properly evaluated.

Combined Performance Summary December 2018 - January 2019 The Nuffield Trust's Quality Watch data with very clear graphs, based on NHS England's Combined Performance Summary, which provides data on key performance measures for December 2018 and January 2019.
SitRep data for Week 6 of 2019 was also released, giving a more up-to-date analysis of how the NHS is coping this winter.

Queen's Medical Centre needs £77m of urgent improvements Nottingham post report reveals that: "Examples of maintenance needed can be upgrading software on medical equipment, maintaining generators and boilers, and ensuring the structural integrity of buildings."
The bigger bill for urgent repairs in the whole of Nottingham University Hospitals trust is £104m.

Priory to close 'inadequate' High Wycombe hospital Guardian report highlights more evidence of poor quality private care propped up by subsidies from NHS budgets. Time to cut the support and invest the money in expanded NHS services.
The Priory Group is privately owned – in 2016 it was bought by US firm Arcadia Healthcare for £1.3bn – but 85% of its income comes from the public sector.

Private providers could grab unlimited share of GP consultations online GP Online report flags up the implications of the minimalist answer from health Minister Stephen Brine to a question from Shadow Minister Justin Madders on the estimates of the share of online consultations to be delivered by private companies.
The report also makes clear the extent to which the government is forging ahead with the roll-out of "digital first" consultations without any consideration of the level of exclusion this will bring for older, poorer and less literate patients for whom it is less appropriate. Coupled with Health Secretary Matt Hancock's insistence that letters to patients should increasingly be restricted to emails rather than conventional posted hard copy, it is clear that the government remains insensitive to the needs of anyone other than young middle class patients and the private app industry.

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NHS for Sale
Myths, Lies and Deception

by Jacky Davis, John Lister and David Wrigley

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