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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

2017-04-11 20:53:43 +0100

Unfortunately for us, Mrs May is choosing not to put enough money into the NHS, but this is part of the plan to dismantle it.
Hammond's economic plan for the NHS, through the Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships as they now are...is to bring hedge funds and international capital into its very heart. Thus draining it of life blood for very many years as the interest has to be paid...for 30 years, 60 years?
Tentative deals have been drawn up with a number of hedge funds and investment companies, reported the newspaper – but these can only go ahead with Government approval. Do we approve? WE DO NOT!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-plans-borrow-10-billion-hedge-funds-healthcare-desperate-treasury-gp-infrastructure-jim-mackey-a7675751.html

2017-04-07 19:23:35 +0100

About as close to terrorism without actually bombing your own country. It's contract killing made legal for Govt and companies to make a fast buck. What other way is there to see this? Is there no concern for the population, or the country?

Lyn V. 4 days ago
Thanks Lyn

2017-04-05 16:28:48 +0100

It should be made clear that NHS England under Simon Stevens, has embedded private companies in the deep structure of the NHS, with for-profit companies 'helping' CCGs with their commissioning roles. At the top of the list with the most influence is United Health, and American health insurance multinational, which also has a subsidiary providing services. United Health is NHS leader Simon Stevens', former employer. A parasite is an organism which the host does not recognise as a danger. These companies have specialities. One, BDO is an expert on insolvencies. Now when will that come in useful?
https://wiggio.com/get_thumb.php?name=SuppliersList.jpg&id=8958088&s=m&cv=1

2017-03-29 15:23:27 +0100

In November 2016 David Mowatt MP Under Secretary of State for Community health and Care said at the National Children's and Adult Services Conference, that the Footprint STPs would not go ahead "if councils believe they have been marginalised." At least 26 Councils now oppose their 'footprint' STP. Primary complaint? They were marginalised.
Sign our letter asking David Mowatt MP.... "Have you stopped these STPs?"
http://www.stopthestps.org.uk/david-mowatt/4593766519

http://www.stopthestps.org.uk/communities/4/004/013/485/804//images/4631880549_989x492.jpg

2017-03-27 17:16:27 +0100

https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/stewart-player/accountable-care-american-import-thats-last-thing-englands-nhs-needs
Now, how is Simon Stevens going to manage the conflicts of interest of profit driven providers compared with publicly run providers like Hospital Trusts all within ACOs, when Virgin Care Services Limited is actually suing NHS England as part of it's action against 6 CCGs and a Council following it's failure to win a £83m Children's Services contract?:-
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155006802942488&set=gm.243594489381252&type=3&theater
virgin taking 6 CCGs to court
https://t.co/9YMnMrf0RM

2017-03-16 16:52:53 +0000

Update March 2017

Behind the derisory £325m STP funding in Hammond’s Spring Budget (for a few “most advanced” STPs) is the plan for 50% of STP funding to be sourced from private companies via Local Economic Partnerships by 2020 – please see section below: “Strategic partnerships with the NHS and the 39 Local Economic Partnerships”

https://calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.wordpress.com/2016/11/10/stps-must-encourage-long-term-nhs-partnerships-with-the-private-sector/

2017-03-14 10:20:32 +0000

More councils have rejected the STP plans, is yours mentioned here:-

https://calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/13-more-councils-oppose-their-areas-footprint-sustainability-and-transformation-plans/

2017-03-11 15:17:58 +0000

Although TTIP is just about defunct, CETA is still very much on the table. Now Trump has the upper hand and wants more of his Corporations to muscle in on our health care.

https://calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.wordpress.com/2017/03/11/invasion-of-the-us-nhs-snatchers/
The STPs make this much easier for them. Stop the STPs. Tell your friends, share the petition.

2017-03-03 14:08:41 +0000

The big NHS Demo in London tomorrow is concentrating minds....however we must not let the simple call for more NHS funding, to take our minds off the real reason for concern, which is the NHS service redesign to suit profiteers.
https://calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.wordpress.com/2017/03/01/wake-up-to-the-accountable-care-organisation-threat/

2017-03-03 14:05:32 +0000

Simon Stevens is getting worried and reporting that he is asking Trusts not to cut any more beds until Care in the Community can be demonstrated to be reducing hospital attendance. This was reported yesterday in the Times as well (with a paywall).
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/02/nhs-england-chief-brings-in-new-rules-on-hospital-bed-closures

2017-02-27 16:57:21 +0000

Which company wrote the STP document for your footprint? Attain wrote the one for West Yorkshire footprint number 5 and now we find Pricewaterhouse Cooper (PwC) involved in Lincolnshire. Has your hospital reconfiguration been referred to the Independent Reconfiguration Panel(IRP),the Chair of which is hospital reconfiguration advisor to PwC it seems?
https://calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.wordpress.com/2017/02/24/a-few-interesting-facts-about-the-independent-ahem-reconfiguration-review-panel/

2017-02-16 04:48:48 +0000

Published today the full list of A&E downgrades and closures with some still to be decided.http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/health/the-full-list-of-the-24-a-e-units-marked-for-closure-1-7822357
As predicted in our petition started last May.

2017-02-07 20:16:46 +0000

While the press kept everyone talking with the 'dead cat' strategy of immigrant charges, news was quietly slipped out about 1 in 6 A&E closures or downgrades.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/06/one-in-six-ae-departments-at-risk-of-closure-or-downgrade

2017-02-02 16:24:06 +0000

https://twitter.com/OurNHS_oD/status/827142276010934273

2017-02-02 16:20:31 +0000

https://calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.wordpress.com/2017/01/21/west-yorkshire-harrogate-nhs-slash-trash-and-privatisers-blunder-deeper-into-mire-of-secrecy/