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To: Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Health and Amanda Pritchard, CEO NHS England

STOP the new plans to dismantle our NHS.

STOP the destruction of our NHS. Call a halt to the Sustainability and Transformation Plans now rebadged as Integrated Care Systems, NOW

Why is this important?

This is the biggest attack on the NHS you've never heard of.

For the last few years the news has been full of winter and summer crisis in the NHS, with A&E's closing their doors and ambulances unable to discharge their patients.(1) In late 2015 the Chief Executive of NHS England, Simon Stevens, created a plan to solve this by CLOSING more A&Es. He thinks if you close hospitals people will stop using them. (2)

Called Sustainability and Transformation Plans he has split England into 44 areas - called 'footprints'. Each 'footprint' was told in late December in 2015 that they must have a plan by 30th June 2016 to completely change the way the NHS works. To work they had to be able to prove they could clear their massive debts within a year.

To do that they have to close services and sell land and hospitals.

Has a hospital closed near you? Is it under threat? Simon Stevens says that to make the NHS affordable we, the public, must get used to no longer having a major hospital within easy reach. This was planned in 2013, but shelved until after the 2015 election as being 'politically sensitive'. It looks like the STP has taken that off the shelf and that is very bad news. In 2013 there were 140 full A&E hospitals in England. We could be be left with between 40-70 A&Es. Closing A&Es is very bad for your health. (3)
 
There was a link to TTIP.
Jeremy Hunt hired Simon Stevens to take over NHS England in 2014. Before that he was President of global operations for United Health of America where he was a lobbyist for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. He didn't oppose it. He fought to open up public health services like our NHS to US private health corporations. We know TTIP and the NHS are top campaigns for 38 degrees members. (4)

Now he's in charge of our NHS! He is driving through a change which will eradicate our NHS and replace it with a US style health service. These new organisations could even be run by US corporations, holding the budgets and deciding what care will be provide and who can get it. This is what the Sustainability and Transformation Plans are doing to our NHS. See blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2016/08/05 and Updates, below.

TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE THIS A MILLION SIGNATURES FOR THE NHS!

We think this is the last big battle to save our NHS. If you want it to be there for your children and grandchildren in their time of need then fight now. (6)
 
BECAUSE WHEN IT’S GONE, IT’S GONE

https://youtu.be/0HyL-riKqqc

(1)  http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2015-01-07/hospital-alerts-whats-the-state-of-your-local-hospital/

(2) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/simon-stevens-nhs-will-be-unaffordable-without-radical-reforms-10099433.html

(3) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2200339/NHS-Cuts--Savage-consequences-revealed-pensioner-waits-6-hours-ambulance.html

(4) http://healthcare-competitiveness.com/wp-content/uploads/Medtronic-UnitedHealth-Group-want-to-export-U.S.-health-care.pdf

(5) http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/nov/11/uk.publicservices

(6)https://youtu.be/GHkzmCL-uNE

Also:-
https://opendemocracy.net/ournhs/deborah-harrington-madeleine-dickens-and-caroline-molloy/hunt-and-stevens-leaving-their-dirty

Another dreadful week for Jeremy Hunt:
https://opendemocracy.net/ournhs/caroline-molloy/you-don-t-have-to-be-brain-surgeon-to-know-hunt-is-wrong-this-week-everyone-d

I've also grouped them together on a page here:
http://bit.ly/NHSfootprints

Find out which 'Footprint' you are in by scrolling down to the map here:-
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/stp-footprints-march-2016.pdf

http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2016/08/05/tory-plans-for-nhs-privatisation-released-during-parliamentary-recess/

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Updates

2017-07-10 21:11:37 +0100

A small rebellion by Hospital Trusts....
"Hospital Trusts in the 14 most underfunded NHS areas have staved off about half of the £470m cuts that NHS Improvement and NHS England ordered them to make, through the new Capped Expenditure Programme that was imposed in April this year".

https://calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.wordpress.com/2017/07/10/hospital-trusts-tell-government-quangos-where-to-put-their-spending-caps/

2017-07-10 21:08:40 +0100

A small rebellion by Hospital Trusts...

https://calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.wordpress.com/2017/07/10/hospital-trusts-tell-government-quangos-where-to-put-their-spending-caps/

2017-07-01 13:50:39 +0100

‘Project Phoenix’- Fire Sale of NHS Land Via Public Private Partnerships

The Naylor Report expects Public Private Partnerships, being hatched way down under the radar by ‘Project Phoenix’, to be the route to private capital. These new Public Private Partnerships will be worth £3bn-5bn.

https://calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/sustainability-and-transformation-plans-and-the-corporate-gravy-train/

2017-06-29 09:15:16 +0100

Letter from CEO of NHS Improvement to "All Provider CEOs engaged with the Capped Expenditure Process."

https://twitter.com/justinmadders/status/879976332112822272

2017-06-29 09:12:30 +0100

Accountable Care Organisations are now up and running in Northumberland and in the process of being introduced in North Tyneside driven by the CCG deficits due to underfunding.

Lesley S 27/06/2017 Thanks Lesley

2017-06-08 19:26:27 +0100

https://calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.wordpress.com/2017/06/05/new-spending-caps-that-will-undermine-the-nhs-to-be-announced-after-the-general-election/

https://calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/capped-expenditure-process-14-areas.jpg?w=723

2017-05-29 14:26:42 +0100

https://calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/rob-webster-west-yorkshire-harrogate-stp-leader-is-a-world-economic-forum-global-corporate-stooge/

2017-05-29 14:25:24 +0100

Going, going, g.........
Theresa May fully supports the proposals in the Naylor Report which incentivises Hospital Trusts to sell their land at a lower than market price. See link. These proposals must be built into the Sustainability and Transformation Plans, or the Hospital Trust will not have access to public money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=tx3hrpDCct8

2017-05-05 16:46:11 +0100

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/brexit-latest-news-repeal-law-public-health-threat-warning-fundamental-right-eu-charter-uk-law-white-a7714081.html

People in Britain risk losing their “fundamental right to health” after Brexit, a barrister and public health professor have warned.

2017-04-30 09:55:04 +0100

https://www.crowdjustice.org/case/challenge-stp/
The next phase in our campaign has begun. We are challenging the STPs in the courts. Our crowd funder is now live. Details in the link.
http://bit.ly/999JudicialReview

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-staff-shortages-paediatrics-children-sick-wellbeing-compromised-a7704081.html

2017-04-24 17:04:59 +0100

http://999callfornhs.org.uk/communities/3/004/012/553/843//images/4632050182.jpg

2017-04-22 13:49:49 +0100

NHS detectives will be in Huddersfield on Saturday 29 April in St Georges Square HD1 1JS from 10:30am. Join us for the Huddersfield march for the NHS.
http://999callfornhs.org.uk/communities/3/004/012/553/843//images/4631930924_345x207.png

2017-04-21 17:24:42 +0100

William A said...
"We cannot let the NHS serve us with less hospitals and staff than we already have. After Brexit there should be much more funding available to the NHS so why start talking about reducing it NOW!. Join the petition if you agree."
Thanks William, good point!

2017-04-16 20:35:24 +0100

A diagram of the for-profit companies which are involved in 'commissioning' services in the NHS which was in the other link which broke, here:-
American Corporate Foxes to ransack NHS henhouse in £3bn - £5bn privatisation.
http://www.energyroyd.org.uk/archives/14951#comment9068united%20health%20csu%20diagram

2017-04-11 21:10:48 +0100

If you see any letters in the press about the STPs let us know via our facebook page or e-mail
[email protected]
Here's one from London.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155194208971726&set=a.10151488438081726.1073741825.508421725&type=3