Vigil outside the full Council meeting about the attacks upon the NHS .
By next Wednesday the Derbyshire 'Sustainability and Transformation Plans' (STPs) will have been published despite the NHS order not to release them until the NHS has had a chance to airbrush.
Despite the fine words and obvious need to connect the different services these plans are about cuts and privatisation.
One of our supporters, Lynn, is putting the question below to the full Council meeting. Come and hear her and the response in the public gallery 6:00 pm onwards (this should be done by 7:00 pm)
“Within the context of a new round of financial cuts to the funding of health, a new structure is emerging which incorporates several C.C.Gs. into a bigger financial Structure called a Sustainability Transformation Plan (S.T.P.). Across the whole of Derbyshire the NHS providers, including the Local Authorities, have been combined in Derbyshire to form ‘Footprint 12’.
The Government’s own Health Committee review in a Cross-Party committee (which included 5 Conservative M.Ps. including Maggie Throup M.P. for Erewash), concluded that ‘the funding allocated to the NHS is less than would appear from official pronouncements’. Furthermore 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 per head as Slovenia and Iceland and behind Greece and Belgium.
Derby Save Our NHS campaigners note that the NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans will:
1. Contribute to cuts of at least £2.5bn nationally this year, and £22bn
within the next five years, to wipe out the NHS so-called financial deficit.
2. Achieve this by implementing ‘new models of care’ that are set out in
NHS England’s 5-Year Forward View (2014).
3. Limit NHS bodies in how they can oppose these cuts because they risk losing access to the £8bn NHS Transformation Fund.
Will Derby City Council delay its sign up to any STP local proposals until the details, including the extent of the cuts, have been published and genuine public consultations have taken place? “
Despite the fine words and obvious need to connect the different services these plans are about cuts and privatisation.
One of our supporters, Lynn, is putting the question below to the full Council meeting. Come and hear her and the response in the public gallery 6:00 pm onwards (this should be done by 7:00 pm)
“Within the context of a new round of financial cuts to the funding of health, a new structure is emerging which incorporates several C.C.Gs. into a bigger financial Structure called a Sustainability Transformation Plan (S.T.P.). Across the whole of Derbyshire the NHS providers, including the Local Authorities, have been combined in Derbyshire to form ‘Footprint 12’.
The Government’s own Health Committee review in a Cross-Party committee (which included 5 Conservative M.Ps. including Maggie Throup M.P. for Erewash), concluded that ‘the funding allocated to the NHS is less than would appear from official pronouncements’. Furthermore 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 per head as Slovenia and Iceland and behind Greece and Belgium.
Derby Save Our NHS campaigners note that the NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans will:
1. Contribute to cuts of at least £2.5bn nationally this year, and £22bn
within the next five years, to wipe out the NHS so-called financial deficit.
2. Achieve this by implementing ‘new models of care’ that are set out in
NHS England’s 5-Year Forward View (2014).
3. Limit NHS bodies in how they can oppose these cuts because they risk losing access to the £8bn NHS Transformation Fund.
Will Derby City Council delay its sign up to any STP local proposals until the details, including the extent of the cuts, have been published and genuine public consultations have taken place? “
Starts on
Wednesday, 23 November 2016 at 5:30 PM GMT
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