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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

2019-12-03 20:26:50 +0000

Areas in England where the US Multinational Optum has been having an influence.
West Midlands, Birmingham, Solihull, Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. It has also gone into partnership with GP “super-practice”, Modality, Cumbria; Cambridge and Peterborough; South East London, Staffordshire and Norfolk, Bedford, Luton and Milton Keynes. Read the whole article here:- https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/the-president-the-us-private-health-giant-and-top-nhs-officials-special-relationships/

2019-11-16 09:17:36 +0000

So much happens that we are unaware of till later...
In 2018 NHS England published "Driving Forward System Working A Snapshot of early progress in collaborative Commissioning"
Optum International representative, Martin McShane is one of 5 "National Thought leaders." Now who thinks there will be a HUGE conflict of interest there?

**https://nhsproviders.org/driving-forward-system-working
The other 4 are Paul Corrigan, Ben Dyson, Nigel Edwards and Michael (opportunities for private providers) Macdonnell.

2019-08-14 14:55:51 +0100

A taste of things to come. Warrington and Halton Hospitals Foundation Trust have, under pressure from anger from the public, temporarily suspended their self-pay option. This is what happens when you divorce the NHS from the politicians to whom it used to be accountable. Bring back the Secretary of State's Duty to provide and secure health services an MPs accountability to their constituents for healthcare.
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2019-08-12 15:43:56 +0100

Hi Please consider supporting this walker as he travels 400 miles for the NHS.

https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/chester-man-marching-400-miles-16740034

https://www.facebook.com/Save-the-NHS-Protest-Walk-to-Parliament-1073704066162244/

2019-08-09 15:59:35 +0100

https://calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.wordpress.com/2019/08/02/optum-scoops-up-7m-over-9-months-for-telling-execs-how-to-shrink-the-nhs/
55 CCGs have been trained up to shrink the NHS, the United Health of America way!.
https://calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/screen-shot-2019-08-01-at-22.55.10.png

2019-07-27 14:53:36 +0100

71 years ago the National Health Service was set up for patients. It is presently not national, and more and more set up to be run by for profit companies who take the easy uncomplicated cheap to deal with patients. So where do the complicated cases end up? When there is only one pot of money for example in an ICS, who decides to spend the limited resources where? This is Bevan speaking about the function of the National Health Service.
https://youtu.be/CCAyUxY0Cm0

2019-07-23 12:49:14 +0100

19 June 19 Three more ICS areas announced
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West - two parts of which, Bucks and Berkshire West, were already separate ICS. The leader of the ICS is Fiona Wise.
The North East and North Cumbria - the largest sustainability and transformation partnership, and now ICS, covering more than three million people, and the existing Cumbria ICS.
South East London - the first ICS in London, covering about two million people.
They join the current 14 ICS, and leave 28 STPs remaining. No new ICS have been announced since spring last year, but NHS England has said all areas will be covered by an ICS by April 2021.
The three additions mean 21 million people will be covered by an ICS.

2019-06-05 07:58:13 +0100

We have to remember that US Health Multinational Corporations are already embedded behind the scenes in the NHS with existing or completed contracts for Commissioning Support and/or Transformation and 'partnerships' with Foundation Trust hospitals in London and just about every other area of England. Hansard quotations from as far back as 2003 here:- http://999callfornhs.org.uk/usa-is-here/4593559082

2019-06-04 19:07:03 +0100

The US Ambassador admits that the US wants the NHS included in the trade deal after Brexit.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/02/us-wants-access-to-nhs-in-post-brexit-deal-ambassador-to-uk-says

2019-05-15 03:22:19 +0100

The STPs are an attack on the whole NHS. The hospital closures are well under way. They are coming for Primary Care that is, GP surgeries, now. Here's a letter to a GP, expressing grave concern. Please consider writing to your own GP when you have read it.

https://publicmatters.org.uk/2019/05/14/dear-dr-williams-primary-care-networks-arent-really-nationalising-gps-are-they/

2019-05-10 18:24:24 +0100

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/the-latest-multi-billion-pound-move-in-nhs-privatisation-is-the-endgame-in-sight/

In spite of Matt Hancock's statement "there's no privatisation of the NHS on my watch" billions of pounds of public money are to be offered to 'Providers.' The article to reveal this, is explicit that the private healthcare sector is central among those now being offered control of at least £2billion of mental health cash.

2019-02-25 15:38:19 +0000

http://999callfornhs.org.uk/communities/3/004/012/553/843//images/4635723199_324x433.jpg

Regulations governing how GPs work are being changed

with no opportunity for debate or discussion by our elected MPs.

The proposed changes seem to allow ANYONE to provide GP services through an Integrated Care Provider contract. The Department of Health’s Directions about this explicitly note the OMISSION of any list of those who are ineligible to provide primary care services.

Centene - assisted by executives from its Spanish subsidiary Ribera Salud - is looking to acquire primary care and mental health companies in the United Kingdom. Last year Ribera Salud appointed the former New Labour Health Secretary Alan Milburn to its Board of Directors, to help it “continue with its expansion plans.”

2019-02-17 20:46:12 +0000

Well for 2019 there's the stepping up our #Justice4NHS campaign

and asking the Supreme Court for permission to appeal.

After discussions with the legal team we don't think the Court of Appeal has properly

got to grips with the issues we have raised about the new payment arrangements

within the contract.

2018-11-13 21:51:20 +0000

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2018-11-13 21:46:15 +0000

#Justice4NHS - Stage 5 - Court of Appeal

Last-minute scheduling because the Court of Appeal has expedited our hearing due to its urgency and public interest. So this means finding an available slot for us - rather than the normal process of scheduling, which would involve a long wait.

Join us at a rally outside the High Courts of Justice
Strand
London
WC2A 2LL (MAP LINK)
1. 20th Nov - 8.30am rally & Press Photo
2. 21stNov - 4.00pm rally to mark the end of the case

There is also space inside the court for people to attend on each day. In Leeds the courtroom was packed with campaigners and this was very inspiring.

If you’d like to take part in the rally outside court and/or attend the court hearing, email [email protected]