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Campaigns (37)

• Sutton Coldfield
  

  Save Good Hope Hospital

  Many patients are very anxious about the future of their local hospital, particularly after various media disclosures, including the announcement that 1,000 beds in hospitals across the city (of Birmingham) are due to be axed! Our campaign group, Save Good Hope’s Local Services, brings together local people who use and care very much about our local hospital, Good Hope, in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands. We are independent of any political party and are campaigning to stop the closure of key departments at our hospital. Closures of key departments at Good Hope Hospital could be the start of a slippery slope: in many areas of England, hospitals have already either been downgraded or even closed. One of our main aims, as stated in an earlier petition, has recently been successfully achieved. A public meeting to discuss the Trust’s proposals finally having being held in October, after much campaigning! And now we are calling for people across Birmingham to say NO to the closure of key departments at the hospital. These were revealed in the Trust's document (before the consultations had even finished!) as the following: 1. The transfer of Trauma FROM Good Hope to Heartlands Hospital; 2. The transfer of Orthopaedics, Ophthalmology and Colorectal Surgery FROM Good Hope to Heartlands and Solihull, both great distances to travel for many people and particularly difficult for carers and those they care for, the elderly, very young and disabled. In response to concern already expressed by many people at the ongoing consultations regarding transport, the Trust have suggested the equivalent of `taxi’ ambulances so to speak. But who would pay for this? Even if it was to be the Trust, how long would they actually pay before saying they had run out of funds? Would patients then be expected to pay, including those from other areas even further out, such as Tamworth & Lichfield? The Heart Of England Trust has been reported in the media as being the highest earning Trust IN THE COUNTRY from car parking charges, netting an annual profit of nearly £4million! At the public meeting, one of our campaigners asked the Trust why and if that money could be used to help keep our hospital services local? At present, it is obvious that this Trust STILL lacks openness, transparency and empathy with patients. They need to really start to `think like a patient’, because at the moment, they don’t.

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• Darlington
  

  Save Accident and Emergency in Darlington

  There are 181 Accident and Emergency Departments in England and Wales. There is a plan to reduce that number to only 70 Major Emergency Departments. There may be as few as 40. This plan must be stopped. We must keep all of our A and Es..Darlington is in danger of losing the Accident and Emergency Department designation.

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  Fair Funding for Buckinghamshire

  For a substantial amount of time now, Buckinghamshire has received less funding per capita than most of the country for our hospitals. This ‘cash-starving’ or 'squeeze' contributed to downgrades at Amersham and Wycombe hospitals and our Trust has recently been in 'special measures'. Since the downgrades at Wycombe hospital, many people have suffered and neighbouring hospitals have been overwhelmed. Staff, patients and their loved ones deserve better.

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• The Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield
  

  SAVE GOOD HOPE'S LOCAL SERVICES

  UPDATE 17/10/14: Please join us for the public meeting about Good Hope Hospital at Sutton Town Hall on Thursday, October 23rd at 7pm: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/events/save-good-hope-public-meeting We'll meet beforehand at The Royal Hotel, Sutton Coldfield at 6pm. Our Campaign Group, `Save Good Hope's Local Services', is a group of local people who use and care very much about our local Hospital, Good Hope in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands. We are independent of any political Party. Our aims are simply to ensure i) the Heart Of England Trust hold a Public Meeting to explain to their very worried patients from all areas covered by the Hospital what the proposals for change are in detail and so to also enable the patients to voice their concerns and maybe even be reassured; ii) Saying NO to any closures of key departments within the Hospital, as some of the proposals for change allegedly involve the transference of certain key services from Good Hope to other Hospitals within the Trust, Heartlands and Solihull; both great distances to travel for many people and particularly difficult for Carers and those they care for; the elderly, very young and disabled. We were very close to achieving the first aim earlier this year, when the previous Chair of the Trust (who is apparently leaving this month!) along with another Trust official, asked some of our Campaign Group who attended meeting with them in January of this year, to jointly organise such a Public Meeting with the Trust in March. That meeting was suddenly stopped after local MP's met with Trust leaders. Since then, we continued campaigning. However many people are very anxious about the future of their local Hospital, particularly after today's Newspaper headlines, stating the axing of 1000 beds in Hospitals under this Trust across the city (of Birmingham). The Trust have stated several times in the media that they would consult with the public, but so far have refused to name a date for any such consultation/meeting. Therefore, we are asking for one asap, because of the great anxiety regarding details about the Trust's proposals. We and many others feel that now openness and transparency from this Trust towards the huge number of patients it serves, is urgently needed. It is greatly lacking at present and we are asking the Trust to start to `think like a patient' and honour their promise.

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• Stockport
  

  Reject privatisation of Stockport G.P. Locally Enhanced Services

  GP surgeries could lose up to 15 per cent of their income from April if some services they currently offer such as spirometry, ECG and 24-hour blood pressure are given to private providers. This financial loss could harm the overall work of the surgeries, while patients would have to travel further to access the privatised services. The threat of privatisation of LES services arises from the Government's unleashing of competition law on the NHS. But Stockport CCG should stand up to the pressure, as some other CCGs have done - we need to tell them this urgently, at their February 12 meeting.

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• Bring back £1.2m in primary health care services to Haverhill.

  Half of Haverhill is one of 20% of the most deprived health in Suffolk. How would you feel if you had a young child or an elderly parent that could not get to a doctor at weekends, evenings or night and an out of hours doctor that has to cover 120 square miles.

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• Haverfordwest
  

  Stop the closure of the Special Care Baby Unit at Withybush Hospital

  The Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) is the only one in Pembrokeshire. By closing it, newborn babies will have to be sent to Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen, a round trip of around 80 miles in a rural area. Many babies will not survive this trip and parents will not be able to visit their babies due to the long distance and difficulties with transport in this area. This will have a long-term knock-on effect with the parents not being able to bond with their babies. My daughter was born six weeks premature and without the care she received immediately after birth in SCBU she would not have survived. She is now a healthy 25 year old with two sons and a daughter of her own, my gorgeous grandchildren who are the light of my life. My youngest granddaughter also needed special care when she was born prematurely, she was several months early and tiny. She is now, thanks to the care and dedication of the staff on SCBU, a healthy and happy 3 year old. My son and his wife would have been unable to spend any time with her if they had been forced to travel to Carmarthen. Giving birth to a baby that needs special care is stressful enough without adding extra problems for the parents. They need to be able to visit their baby often, especially if Mum is breastfeeding and forcing them to travel to Carmarthen will make an already hard time even harder. Most young families don't have their own transport and public transport in this area is almost non-existent.

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• Swanage
  

  Keep Swanage Hospital

  The isolated position of Swanage (27 miles by road from the nearest large hospital) and the fact that it is a holiday town receiving up to 250,000 holiday makers during peak holiday weeks. The hospital provides a range of specialized facilities including 15 beds for multiple use and specialist care as well as a vital minor injuries unit that can be accessed on a walk in basis. The hospital is highly rated with a matron in charge and has excellent fund raising support with money available for proposed expansion work. It should be regarded as a jewel in the crown for NHS Dorset

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• Provide NHS dental care for new patients in Kirklees

  Many are being forced to go private in desperation, but even private dental provision is nil at the moment in Kirklees, so they have to go out of area. Health suffers, and many are in pain or despair. I recently broke a tooth very badly, but it took me three weeks to find a PRIVATE dentist well out of the area who would treat me. I know of others in other areas who have waited 18 months to get on an NHS dental list and have a 90 mile round trip. One such was examined and told the earliest NHS appointment she could have was in 3 months' time, by which time the tooth was in such a state it had to be extracted.

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  B12 Testing & Treatment

  Its Important that this test is done as symptoms can be relieved by supplementing with B12 which cost as little as 50Pence per Ampule , saving NHS Billions Pounds, and saving Billions on welfare assistance , saving millions of people in UK from suffering from this deficiency and getting diagnosed with more serious conditions . Dr. Chandey as done so much research into this condition and as helped Thousands of people back to Health , many have been in Wheelchairs. Also Martin Hooper as just published a book on The Forgotton Illness . This as long been neglected by NHS not testing for B12 deficiency .!!

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