NHS children's community health services and the inpatient adolescent mental health service in Bristol & South Gloucestershire are in the process of being recommissioned. The first stage of this campaign has already been successful with the recent announcement that the interim contract to deliver community children's health services for one year during 2016/17 has been won by a partnership made up of Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) and two social enterprises, Sirona Care & Health CIC and Bristol Health CIC. The adolescent inpatient mental health unit, the Riverside Unit, will also be provided by AWP, with private company The Huntercombe Group, acting in a 'consultancy' role. However, AWP will be running the unit on a day-to-day basis and staff will be employed by AWP, so it will essentially remain within the NHS. The demand that services remain integrated has also been won, with the announcement that for the longer-term contract these services will be commissioned together by the Clinical Commissioning Groups and their partners. However, the campaign is not over yet. The next stage of the process during which the same services will be commissioned for the next 5 or 7 years from 2017 has begun. We must keep the pressure on to protect children's health services in Bristol for the long-term. And now we know it can be done! The next stage of this campaign will focus on bringing all of these services entirely back into the NHS for the long-term. We know private companies are planning to bid to run them. There should not be a role for companies who seek to make a profit or for social enterprises (many of whom operate in a similar way to private companies) in the delivery of our health services. There are two reasons why this campaign is vitally important: Firstly, children and young people in Bristol and South Gloucestershire need to get the best possible care and treatment. This means having services which are integrated and can work together, provided by people who are interested in delivering top quality care, not making maximum profit. Secondly, every time an NHS service in the UK is privatised we are a step closer to a US-style health system which would mean the end of free-at-point-of-need healthcare. The evidence is mounting that this government is not fully committed to a future publicly-owned health service. We are a group of concerned local people, including service users and NHS staff, who understand how damaging the consequences of moving these services to a private provider could be. We think the principle of 'people before profit' in the NHS is fundamental in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and the rest of the UK. Join our campaign at https://www.facebook.com/ProtectCCHP or search 'Protect CCHP' on Twitter for more information.

There is an increase of hospital admissions due to anaphylactic shock and presently not all frontline emergency response personnel are trained and equipped in the use of adrenaline auto-injectors. This has lead to an increase in tragic and unnecessary loss of life due to an uprise in people experiencing severe allergic reactions.

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On the 10/08/2015, levels of cash support for asylum seeking families will be cut drastically by the Home Office. Children will no longer receive more (needed as they are growing): every asylum seeker will receive £36.95. At least £16 per week cut per child. Children's health will suffer as a result. Say no to this amendment to asylum support and ensure basic conditions are met for these vulnerable children.

I apparently ticked the wrong box for free dental care before having a filling costing £51. I sent the paperwork in to show I was claiming Job Seekers allowance, (after being made redundant after 14 years as a civil servant) & 20 years in full time work. I now have apparently fraudulently received free dental care (as I didn't read the small print) and now owe the NHS £200, £51 plus the £149 worth of charges. I've only just got back into work and my husband lost his job at the same time and hasn't got regular work. We've got young children. We can't pay the government or another third-party agency £149 for sending out two letters and for me ticking the wrong box. Its just not fair. I didn't really understand the difference between the two allowances anyway and no one explained that I would not be entitled to free dental care. (but apparently it was in some small print). Its just not fair on individuals who have no intention of defrauding the NHS and are just claiming Job Seekers Allowance (which they have paid in to). I'm now back in work (after 5 months unemployed) and would pay £51, but they won't accept that.

I am against the NHS being privatised and this Contract is important as it deals with Patients records and sending letters to Patients . The private Company Capita intends to close 29 offices used now and run from just 3 offices with 800 redundancies of NHS Staff . Local knowledge will be lost with the closure of these offices

Hundreds of PATIENTS HAVE have been patient and tolerant awaiting long and hard for this new Purpose built Centre.Their hearts have been broken by the long delays and dragging of heels by the Scottish Borders Health Board.

This represents a fundamental change to the society that can be considered to be "British". Any move, unsupported by referendum, to follow through with this seismic change to to the social environment represents a complete disregard for the wishes of the general population. This is nothing short of a conscious, deliberate attack on our way of life.

Too many residents with dementia are denied regular access to outdoor spaces, eg gardens, patio areas, around the nursing home. The barriers I come across are "they feel secure inside"; "they may fall and hurt themselves" Sadly these residents only feel secure indoors because they have been locked in under DOLS regulations, for months and years , on end; the same could be said of prisoners in Belmarsh ! they would feel insecure outside after being locked away for ages ! The only way some of these residents with dementia experience the outdoors is if family or friends take them out; due to age and infirmity , family sometimes cannot manage this. People with dementia are no different from others in their need for sunshine and Vitamin D; in their need for emotional and spiritual uplifting by experiencing wind in their faces, hearing birdsong; looking at flowers and colours; in their need for mental and sensory stimulation; in fact they need these benefits more so than others who have the liberty to go where and when they please. people in nursing homes are prone to osteoporosis, (fragility of bones) , partly because they do not have exposure to sunshine, and also to exercise. I see them languishing in wheelchairs often for the whole day; pale certainly; apathetic often, in need of sensory and mental stimulation; Half an hour twice a day in the garden in the company of a care assistant would make a big difference to their lives. My husband is in a lovely nursing home, with kind staff and carers; he is fortunate that I can and do take him out regularly ; even in inclement weather; not everyone has the same opportunity.

Like many people I have found myself on the receiving end of ATOS deciding I am fit to work. Despite my GP sending me to the assessment with a supporting letter. My GP knows I am not fit enough to work. And there are thousands of people out there who are the same. Forcing people into situations that they can't cope with will cause more deaths, more illnesses and cost the NHS more in the long run. It's. It through choice I don't work. I am a qualified teacher. And shortly after qualifying was told by a school they didn't think I was capable of 'keeping up'. My health drastically deteriorated and now I can't work. Yet ATOS seem to think me and thousands of others out there are able to work..... and work any job. The whole system needs looking at and revising. How many people need to die before something is done about this.

This is so important because many of those most in need of a National Health Service are the poor and long term chronically sick. These people cannot afford or get private health care. Without the NHS, we will be like America with 40% not having any health care cover. Once lost the NHS will NEVER be recovered, so act now to keep it. The NHS is the most cost effective & efficient health care system in the world, despite what the politicians keep saying about it. Love your NHS & fight to save it, it's the best thing Britain ever created and it's worth fighting for. The rest of the world knows it, we know it, the government knows it - so tell them to keep their grubby hands off!

Lord Prior, has just suggested to parliament that he plans to launch an inquiry to consider whether we should move away from a tax-funded NHS towards one funded by insurance and co-payments. This is an attack on the core principles of the NHS that have been in place since 1946.