We are concerned about the following aspects outlined in the plan. • The reduction of A&E Departments from three to two. Wherever this closure maybe we believe that it will simply put further pressure on A&E departments in other parts of the county. • Closure of community hospital beds. • The further privatisation and fragmentation of NHS services within the country. • Closure of hospital departments putting further pressure on other services • The redeployment of staff which poses a risk to nurses and other health care professionals pay and terms and conditions. We believe that these proposals pose a direct threat to NHS services within the County and therefore we stand united in our opposition to these proposals. Please sign our petition to oppose these proposals and to save our NHS

We are calling on the Mayor of London to tackle air pollution and save lives by creating an Ultra Low Emission Zone (‘ULEZ’) to cover the whole of Greater London. An ULEZ is an area in which vehicles must meet exhaust emission standards or pay a daily travel charge. The highest charges will be paid by the most polluting vehicles. The Mayor is proposing to create an ULEZ for all vehicles in central London in 2019. He is consulting on whether to extend it to cover the area inside the North and Circular Road and also to create an ULEZ for the whole of London but only for heavy vehicles. We are asking him to go further. Air pollution is now a major health risk. We need powerful measures to tackle it. An ULEZ which applies only to heavy vehicles will not be enough to protect people from pollution in outer London, especially where people live and work next to the North or South Circular. Creating an ULEZ for all vehicles to cover the whole of London would significantly reduce pollution in outer London and would better improve the air quality in central London than an ULEZ that covers central London alone. For these reasons we ask you to add your name to this petition:

In a recent article by GScene Magasine, it was advised that Brighton based HIV charity The Sussex Beacon faces the prospect of closing services, including its ten bed inpatient unit, following a reduction in funding it receives from the NHS. The Sussex Beacon provides specialist support and care to people living with HIV through inpatient and outpatient services. It helps hundreds of people living with HIV each year and was rated ‘outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission in September. Changes to local commissioning arrangements have led to a reduction in funding from some statutory funders. The Sussex Beacon has already lost funding with further cuts likely to follow in the near future. The charity costs over £2 million a year to run and the Charity Trustees say they cannot continue to absorb these cuts. While many people living with HIV are now able to live long and healthy lives, there are still many who need specialist services. Last year The Sussex Beacon’s inpatient unit had 233 admissions and was full for the majority of the year. It provided over 2,000 bed nights, relieving pressure on both health and social care services in Sussex. Please use #SaveTheSussexBeacon when sharing to help build momentum and to let the Sussex Beacon staff see what you are doing to help

Essex County Council have packaged all their health, well-being and family services for residents from pre-birth to 19 years and have decided to let the contract to run them to Virgin Care. Good childcare is vital for the future of this country and this move can only serve to reduce the quality of childcare in Essex. The services affected include: • Health visitors • Children's Centres • Family Nurse Partnership • The 0-5 Healthy Child Programme • The 5-19 Programme This takeover represents an example of creeping privatisation of services to a situation where there is reduced accountability and a strong possibility of cuts to hard working staff and their employment rights. The NHS and its related services should remain a publicly provided, publicly funded health service for the benefit of all UK citizens, not for the benefit of those who wish to make a profit. Virgin Care Ltd pays no corporation tax in the UK and should therefore not profit from the UK taxpayer. It is part of a group whose ultimate parent company is based in the British Virgin Islands, which is a tax haven. Virgin Care has been quietly picking up multi million healthcare contracts across the UK to run at the taxpayers expense for the benefit of their offshore shareholders. (source: http://bit.ly/virgincareprofile) Help us tell Essex County Council we don't want Virgin Care in Essex.

I am begging people to get behind this campaign.My sister who has a spinal degenerative disease and needs regular pain killing injections in order to function has received a letter from the NHS in Blackburn that funding has been refused for ongoing treatment. She is certainly no alone, and there could be many other people affected by this decision. She has had to pay 864.00GBP in order to get a pain killing injection from her specialist today. What is going on? This is not a cosmetic face lift or botox, we are talking about a pain killing injection that is necessary for her to function. Please help me to expose what is happening to innocent people, many of whom are not in a position to pay. They are being referred back to their GP's who are going to be overwhelmed with patients needing this care. Please help. xxx I am not only fighting for this treatment for my sister but to all the other patients who have received similar letters advising them that their treatment is no longer available.

Lost beds in Derbyshire could mean that people are sent home to recover from illnesses rather than being kept under observation. Let’s make sure that our NHS doctors can make decisions they think are best for patients. Our NHS is already being starved of funds. The percentage of Government spending on healthcare in 2015-16 was 6.6%. It used to be close to 10%. We are now spending about the same as Slovenia and Iceland and behind Greece and Belgium. While there is a need to join-up care in Derbyshire this is being done in the context of £22 billions cuts in the NHS and may well result in loss of nearly a third of hospital beds in Derbyshire. How can we afford to lose more beds? This continued degradation of the NHS will foster the call for further break-up of the NHS and selling off to the private sector. Created on behalf of the Derbyshire NHS SOS Campaign

This winter the Royal Free is not providing night-time cover for the mental health liaison service between 9pm and 8am, which it has provided over the last 2 years. This will have devastating effects for some of the most vulnerable people in London over Christmas. The Camden and Islington Foundation Trust has lobbied to get the funding and is very disappointed that it has not been given. They have identified the following risks this winter: • Service users attending the Royal Free Hospital with mental health needs or on Section 136 of the Mental Health Act between 9pm and 8am may experience long waits to see a mental health professional. • Waits to be assessed by a mental health professional may be even longer for those service users who are not residents of Camden and Islington. • The quality of experience for service users will deteriorate if they are subject to long waits for assessment. The below named service user groups are asking Camden and Barnett commissioners and the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust to pay for this vital service: Camden Borough User Group (CBUG) Islington Borough User Group (IBUG) Nubian User Forum (NUF) Women's Strategy Group Recovery College Camden Frontline Rehabilitation and Recovery Side by side network Substance Misuse Division Care Quality Review Group Personality Disorder Service

Many people in the UK are dying unnecessarily because of a shortage of organ donations available under the current system that requires individuals to register as organ donors. A year ago Wales introduced an 'opt-out' system that assumed a willingness to donate unless one specifically registered an objection in advance. The system still allows for the family to be consulted prior to donation. Since the introduction of the new law in 2015, 160 organ transplants have been undertaken, 39 of which were from 'deemed consent' donors; that's 39 people who's lives have been saved or majorly improved in Wales alone. The Welsh Government hopes to achieve a figure of 25% over time. (International Medical Press, 05 December 2016.) The British Medical Association (BMA) have advocated such a system since 1999 as the best option regarding obtaining consent and passed a resolution on the 22nd of June 2016 to urge doctors to lobby their respective governments to adopt a system similar to that in Wales. (International Medical Press, 23 June 2016.) It's clear from the results in Wales in just one year , that such a system nationwide would save hundreds of lives by making life-saving organs more readily available.

Mental health services are inadequately funded, understaffed and stretched to breaking point. Your Way have long been day services in the area, now they are being restructured to offer 1 to 1 support, in the community. 1 to 1 support is being undertaken by various other organisations. Your Way are the main day services and have started to turn existing service users away and not encouraging new service users. Continuing down this route will increase dependency on mental health services, increase risk of suicides, increased hospital admissions and fail the needs of the community.

These proposals are untried and not deliverable. The downgrading of acute services at the Horton General will have devastating consequences on Banbury and the surrounding area. This will also increase pressure on neighbouring hospitals who are already under pressure with the increased demand.

Taylor Unit was opened in 1994, for the people of wigan Bolton salford and leigh. It is a dedicated neurological rehabilitation unit, offering exceptional care.

999 Demand is rising fast. In 2005 Ambulance Services received around 5 million calls. In 2015 they received over 9 million. Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) statistics show that the number of Qualified Ambulance Staff on the frontline only increased by 283 over the same period. It is recorded that there were 17417 Qualified Ambulance Staff in 2005 and 17700 in 2015 over a period where demand increased by over 4 million calls per year. The government correctly states that there are over 2000 more Paramedics in the NHS now than in 2010 but many of these staff were already counted in the Qualified Ambulance Staff bracket, having previously been Emergency Medical Technicians. Also, many newly qualified Paramedics simply fill vacant positions created by Paramedics who are leaving the service at a rate of around 1000 per year. Paramedics who are leaving the service often cite the stress and pressure associated with the high demand as a contributory factor to their decision to leave. Staff often work long shifts (10 or 12 hours) without rest breaks or with only a short rest break taken after hours of back to back jobs. On most shifts there are already calls waiting when ambulance crews become available again after an emergency call. They often work longer than their contracted hours due to calls that take them over their finishing time. A growing number of people are calling 999 with conditions which could be more appropriately managed in the Primary Care setting, such as their GP Surgery. Patients are reporting difficulties with arranging routine appointments because of the pressure on other areas of the NHS. Historically, these patients have been transported to A+E like any other 999 case even though they do not necessarily have an acute medical problem which requires emergency treatment. Now the focus is on taking healthcare to the patient in order to reduce unnecessary A+E attendances. Over the last decade, ambulance staff have taken on extra skills, responsibilities and autonomy in order to assist them with recognising, treating and referring these patients to the most appropriate alternative care pathways rather than using A+E by default. Entrance into the profession is now via higher education, with student Paramedics attaining degree level qualifications. Some Paramedics have also undertaken further education and training in order to work in more advanced roles, such as Critical Care or Urgent Care Practitioners. This might mean they are able to provide more advanced care in an emergency, prescribe antibiotics for minor ailments or suture minor injuries without the patient needing to attend A+E. All but one of our Ambulance Services have reportedly failed to hit government imposed response time targets recently. Because of the high demand, the government are changing response time targets so that Ambulance Services now have longer to assess calls which are not deemed immediately life threatening and longer to respond to them. Conditions such as Chest Pain and Difficulty in Breathing, which used to have an 8 minute response time, may now have a 19 minute response time in order for the Ambulance Services to identify and allocate the most appropriate resources rather than focussing solely on the response time. A number of media outlets have also reported that ambulances are often unable to respond to emergencies due to the length of time they are queuing to handover patients at A+E departments. Hospital handover and ambulance turnaround times are strictly monitored and partnership systems have been implemented to try and speed up the process. Despite these changes and initiatives, statistics show that our Ambulance Services are still struggling to keep up with demand and staff are feeling the pressure. Are our Ambulance Services in a position to take up the strain of other areas of the NHS without further investment? Ambulance Services are doing their best to innovate and make the best use of the resources at their disposal. More funding would allow Ambulance Services to increase the number of staff and resources, try new initiatives in order to meet the high demand, reduce the burden on already over crowded A+E departments, relieve the pressure on ambulance staff who are trying to keep up with demand, improve patient satisfaction and could ultimately save lives. If you agree that the government should provide more funding for our Ambulance Services, please sign the petition.