Protest at Derbyshire County Council & present the protect 535 hospital beds petition

We are planning to protest outside the next meeting of Derbyshire County Council, to present the petition that you have signed, and to use this to trigger a 30 minute debate inside the next Council meeting, on February 7. We want the County Council to publicly distance itself from any talk of cutting beds.

The Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) now being put into action across England are premised on targets to reduce the number of hospital beds that the NHS will need by 2020. The talk in the Derbyshire (Joined Up Care) Plan is to shed 535 beds. Yet the Office of National Statistics’ figures for population in the coming years, suggests that the NHS faces a very large potential increase in demand for both admission and stays in hospital.