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Integrated Care Providers (ICPs): the NHS England consultation

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

    RECLAIM SOCIAL CARE

    Conference

    Saturday November 17
    Birmingham

    Speakers will include Health Campaigns Together, the Labour Party, trade unions, DPAC, National Pensioners Convention, Relatives and Residents Association, and a speaker on the Scottish experience. We will explore the current situation, the policy issues and campaigning opportunities. It will be an exciting and challenging day! £10/£5.

     Click here to book now and reserve your place
    PLEASE NOTE change of venue, for access reasons


    Health Campaigns Together
    quarterly newspaper No 12 now available


     Our regular 12-page tabloid available online and in print, including: OUR CALL for a new campaign to MAKE OUR NHS SAFE FOR ALL, PLUS NEWS on Integrated Care Provider consultation, UNIONS’ battle against “subco” privatisation, SOCIAL CARE conference, REPORTS on campaigns, mental health cuts, INTERNATIONAL reports from USA and Ontario – and much more

    Every issue is FREE to read online. If you want copies for campaigning, order bundles ONLINE NOW.

    DID YOU MISS OUR EARLIER ISSUES? Back issues of the newspaper can be downloaded 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

    Friday 26th October 2018
    10.30

    Scrap the ICP contract: Rally and petition to save the NHS!

    Old Palace Yard, London, SW1P 3,

    NHS England is consulting on the contract for a new model of health and social care provision that threatens the break-up of the NHS into units run by ‘Integrated Care Providers’ – or ‘ICPs’.
    Each of these ‘business units’ would control spending and rationing of healthcare for populations of up to 500,000. Despite the language, they will dis-integrate health and social care services and put finance before patient care.
    These huge contracts will also be open to the private sector to compete for. They are therefore a serious threat to the NHS as a publicly owned and publicly run service.
    Keep Our NHS Public, Heath Campaigns Together, We Own It, #JR4NHS and #Justice4NHS have called a joint protest to draw attention to the Government's plans to continue the privatisation of our NHS.
    After we've assembled at Parliament we'll be handing in our petition to scrap ICPs at the Department of Health and Social Care on Victoria St, (Westminster, London SW1H 0EU).
    You can still sign the petition here. https://weownit.org.uk/ICP-petition-NHS
    Also on Friday the second reading of the NHS Bill is timetabled, though it may not get a reading. The NHS Bill is vital to safeguard against these attacks and must be supported.
    More details on Facebook

    Saturday 27th October 2018
    2-3.30

    Barnsley Save Our NHS Public Meeting to Defend Maternity and Paediatric Services

    Barnsley Town Hall

    A meeting to give members of staff and the public a chance to find out what is proposed and make their views known.
    We have a range of speakers lined up, including clinical staff working in the services affected.
    We had hoped that that a representative of the health authorities in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw would come along to speak about the changes, but, surprisingly, they have said that they have no one available.
    Our view is that the public and staff need to be fully involved in important decisions about the future of our health services: it is wrong that decisions like this are taken behind closed doors.

    Saturday 3rd November 2018
    10am-4pm

    Health for All: Patients, Not Passports

    Liverpool

    Public meeting at
    St Bede's Church
    Fern Grove/Hartington Rd
    L8 0SQ
    Speakers include
    Rayah Feldman (Maternity Action)
    Kitty Worthing (Docs Not Cops)
    John Grayson (SYMAAG)
    and speaker from These Walls Must Fall
    Organised by Merseyside Keep Our NHS Public and Save Liverpool Women's Hospital campaign

    Saturday 17th November 2018
    10.30-4.00pm

    RECLAIM SOCIAL CARE

    BIRMINGHAM
    Carrs Lane Conference Centre,
    Carrs Lane
    B4 7SX
    Opposite Moor St Station.
    Direct line from London Marylebone
    PLEASE NOTE second change of venue, for access.

    Speakers will include Health Campaigns Together, the Labour Party, trade unions, DPAC, National Pensioners Convention, Relatives and Residents Association, and a speaker on the Scottish experience.
    Help build the campaign for publicly provided, publicly accountable social care funded through general taxation and free to all at point of use.
    Book your place now online

    Newsblog
    Royal Liverpool Hospital PFI to be scrapped

    The Royal Liverpool Hospital PFI is to be scrapped and the investors ‘bailed out’ ...


    Read the full item, and other breaking news

    Info links

    Links to important new information on other websites
    • PM refuses to scrap work capability assessments despite link to suicides Theresa May has refused to scrap her government’s controversial Work Capability Assessments, despite reports almost one in two women taking part in the assessments say they have attempted suicide before or after the process.

    • Cuts causing stress and long-term sickness, social workers tell survey Community Care report on gaping holes emerging in social care. Of 295 children and families’ social workers who participated in the research by Barnardo’s and YouGov, 79% said statutory sector workers were stressed, with many experiencing long-term sickness as a result. The findings come in the wake of a debate last week at Community Care Live, where sector leaders discussed the need for employers to do more to support practitioners experiencing emotional distress.
      Reflecting the stretched picture, 85% of social workers also said they were unable to give all the children they work with the support and time they needed.

    • New statistics from NHS England The NHS is gradually slipping further away from targets as emergency caseload continues to grow -- despite all the fine words and theories of the last 25 years.
      Made worse by pig-headed management pressing ahead with bed closures and A+E downgrades regardless of pressures.

    • Now THIS is fake health news and it appears in major newspapers across the US New epidemic of fake news on health issues in US press -- and no doubt due to appear in low-grade British news outlets too

    • NHS on course for even tougher winter Nuffield Trust report flags up pressure from 7% increase in A&E attendances -- no sign of the long-promised community or other out of hospital services reducing the pressure or easing discharge.

    • How Much are Private Patients Costing the NHS? UNISON Eastern Region report by John Lister. FoI requests to 14 trusts in the East of England asked the numbers of private patients treated in NHS hospitals, how many of them accessed NHS facilities and staff, the amount it cost the NHS and how much patients and insurers were charged.
      Most trusts said they couldn’t answer all the questions, with some citing commercial confidentiality and others saying they simply didn’t collect the data. If trusts don’t know how much private patients are costing them, they surely can’t know how much to charge them, says UNISON.
      It appears that those trusts that did provide financial information are only generating a few hundred pounds per patient, for example Luton & Dunstable Hospital Foundation Trust billed private patients and insurers £1.83m for services costing £1.63m – an average surplus of just £335 a patient.
      NW Anglia Foundation Trust apparently made around £524 profit per patient, but its figures do not include the cleaning or catering staff needed to provide its premium services, suggesting the true surplus is much lower, says the report.
      The FoI replies also reveal how under-utilised the private wards are. Despite hospitals across England struggling to find empty beds for their patients, Luton’s 13-bed private ward treated just 36 inpatients per bed per year – less than one a week, questioning the resources allocated (and denied to NHS patients).

      UNISON eastern region secretary Chris Jenkinson said: “Well-heeled patients shouldn’t be able to leap to the top of waiting lists, getting treated in swanky private wards on NHS sites with access to the round-the-clock first-class services that the private sector simply cannot provide.
      “But these trusts can’t even show that they’re getting enough cash back to justify opening their doors to private patients. It’s truly disgraceful.”
      John Lister says: “Many people have concerns about any NHS involvement in private care – but almost all will condemn the diversion of NHS funds to deliver such care at a loss, which is in clear breach of the guidelines.
      “Once again questionable policies are being concealed behind a wall of secrecy. Trusts must be forced to publish the full financial picture on private patients — and to halt immediately wherever public money is being lost and resources inefficiently used.”


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    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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