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Integrated Care Monitor: the NHS England consultation

Safety Watch
Help us log the safety hazards undermining our NHS

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

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.

    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
    • Prescription Drug Costs Driven By Manufacturer Price Hikes, Not Innovation Maybe not a shock to many, but useful exposure of rip-off pharma industry and why its proces keep rising.

    • Care cuts failing older people in England, says human rights group Human Rights Watch report accuses the government of a lack of oversight of a social care system which is largely devolved to town halls and voices concern about a 140% increase in adult social care complaints since 2010 following a cut of almost 50% in central government funding for councils.

    • Spend on 'vital' community services cut by a fifth HSJ flags up research revealing cutbacks over the years in services which are supposedly key to the NHS Long Term Plan's ambitions for mental health: "The average spend by trusts on their community teams decreased from £6.2m per 100,000 people served in 2012-13, to £5.3m in 2016-17. This is a 15 per cent reduction in cash terms. Once inflation is considered, the cut was 20 per cent."

    • Home Office doubles charge for migrants to use the NHS Another racist measure giving a kick in the teeth to the NHS's multinational workforce and many more:
      "The standard Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) will today double from £200 to £400 a year, a sum the Home Office says will bring much-needed funds to the National Health Service. But those who have to pay it - even if they are already working and paying taxes - say the doubled charge will be crippling for people including NHS workers, families with children, and people who have been in the UK since childhood."

    • Revealed: The number of operations cancelled every day at Leicester's hospitals Leicester Mercury report notes a 6 percent increase in a county where there are still plans to axe acute beds.

    • New regime revealed for trusts with biggest financial holes A new jargon buzz phrase revealed by the HSJ: “accelerated turnaround process.”
      Apparently NHS Improvement will deploy this new scheme to deal with the 30 trusts which combined account for the net total of the trust provider deficit of £1.2bn.


     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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    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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