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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

2017-01-20 14:38:26 +0000

38degrees new research, picked up by ITV amplifies what we've been saying since May 2016.
Watch now and share!
https://speakout.38degrees.org.uk/campaigns/1836?utm_source=email&utm_medium=blast&utm_campaign=17_1_2017_nhs_itv_share&bucket=email-blast-17_1_2017_nhs_itv_share&utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blast2017-01-17

2017-01-11 16:17:09 +0000

Next Howl January 28th 2017
https://www.facebook.com/events/1599650713674010/
Please sign up for the 'Thunderclap'! The social media 'reach' in December was a million people! Even if you can't attend an event, your social media involvement will be very helpful.

Thunderclap link http://thndr.me/AlqXdn

and check event on FaceBook for updates as even if you are not signed up to Facebook, you should be able to see the page.

Please share the short urls for social media:-

event details http://bit.ly/2j9a4Zt

thunderclap http://thndr.me/AlqXdn

petition https://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/stopNHSattacks

If you can't find a 'Howl' near you please organise one. Tell us through the petition or e-mail STP_Agony Aunt
and we'll share it.
Many thanks.
https://wiggio.com/yui/folder/stream_file.php?doc_key=1f/e2LV8v3jfnVHDMHmhAqErqty6lcS9KCVFA4gCUO8=

2017-01-11 16:08:23 +0000

New Howls on 28 Jan 2017.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1599650713674010/
Please share the short urls for social media:-

event details http://bit.ly/2j9a4Zt

thunderclap http://thndr.me/AlqXdn

petition https://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/stopNHSattacks

Sharing the social media links will be a great help. Thank you.
https://wiggio.com/get_thumb.php?name=howl%20snarl.jpeg&id=8882651&s=l&cv=1

2016-12-21 20:06:45 +0000

http://www.stopthestps.org.uk/communities/4/004/013/485/804//images/4630842697_434x219.jpg

2016-12-21 20:02:56 +0000

We're delivering a letter to NHS England asking the Board Chair and members to resign, at the Leeds Howl. Sign it by 10pm 22 December to be included!
http://www.stopthestps.org.uk/open-howl-at-stp/4593415239
Thanks!

2016-12-18 15:34:17 +0000

Downloadable template to Heath and Wellbeing Board 'Chair' here:-
https://calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.wordpress.com/2016/12/17/ask-your-health-wellbeing-board-chair-to-call-for-suspension-of-2017-19-stp-contract-negotiations/

2016-12-08 02:06:55 +0000

https://calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.wordpress.com/2016/12/08/what-health-wellbeing-boards-can-do-about-stp-two-year-operational-plans-deadline-23rd-december/

https://www.facebook.com/chrissie.a.parker/videos/10211647069961480/

2016-11-21 19:04:25 +0000

The map in this link is being updated daily with new STPs for areas, as they are published.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/topics/stps/mapped-which-stps-have-been-published-so-far/7013064.article
Is yours there yet?

2016-11-18 13:28:04 +0000

Watch the embedded video Jeremy Hunt drops a clanger . It's chiller . Janis T
Thanks Janis.

2016-11-09 16:19:09 +0000

https://calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.wordpress.com/2016/11/09/nhs-cuts-downgrades-and-closures-stp-dirty-tricks-no-1/

This article highlights the need to be aware of appointment clerks telling you there are no appointments in the hospital of your choice, or that there is too long a waiting list, that on Choose and Book, you can choose, but can't book...We have been struggling with these issues in North Kirklees since 2013...and demanding services where we want them. Then there's the phenomenon of GPs sending patients to privately provided Audiology tests and patients not realising they can choose NHS tests (and there being money in it for the GPs allegedly.)

2016-11-07 23:07:58 +0000

Check out our website for the 'flatpack' campaign materials to customise for your area.
http://www.stopthestps.org.uk/

2016-11-07 23:05:31 +0000

Many news items are restricted to local newspapers and news sites.
http://www.northdevonjournal.co.uk/8203-mayor-urges-healthcare-authorities-to-tell-north-devon-what-senseless-cuts-are-planned/story-29865591-detail/story.html

2016-11-07 23:03:25 +0000

It is indicative of how much ordinary people don't know about the fragmentation and profit making companies in the NHS, when you watch this film.
https://youtu.be/8jQPa9uTOSI
How can they know about 9,000 missing NHS records and a private company's involvement:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37874856

2016-11-02 21:00:18 +0000

http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Care-News/another-stp-admits-to-serious-reservations-about-process-and-plan

2016-10-31 19:32:30 +0000

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/30/theresa-mays-claim-on-health-funding-not-true-say-mps

http://news.sky.com/story/governments-nhs-funding-claims-not-true-mps-10639449

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3888398/PM-Hunt-misled-public-NHS-money-says-Tory-Senior-MP-uses-letter-suggest-used-incorrect-figures-hide-extent-cash-crisis.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/sarah-wollaston-nhs-funding-cuts_uk_5816f628e4b0ccfc956304be