STOP the destruction of our NHS. Call a halt to the Sustainability and Transformation Plans now rebadged as Integrated Care Systems, NOW
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
(5) http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/nov/11/uk.publicservices
(6)https://youtu.be/GHkzmCL-uNE
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
The odds were not in the claimant's favour in the Judicial Review. The ruling displays too many serious flaws.
Problems: 999campaign wanted the hearing over 2 days like the JR4NHS, but was only allocated a half day in the end. This truncated hearing left the judge to ask himself the wrong question! And more.... Read a full account here:-
http://999callfornhs.org.uk/999-judicial-review-april-18/4594271627
How the JR went.
http://bit.ly/999JRreport
The Choir
https://youtu.be/IvuXsoTylnk
The Judicial Review happened yesterday and we are now waiting for the ruling which could take weeks. Both this review and the next one to be heard on 23rd and 24th May have significantly slowed NHS England's plans for dismantling the NHS evidenced by the fact that the Dudley contract has not been awarded and the Manchester one also is on hold. However, there is an ominous development, mentioned in this article which intimates Government is going to announce changes to Health and Social Care later this year.
Why is there a Judicial Review on 24 April 2018? Here's an explanation.
https://www.facebook.com/999CallForTheNhs/videos/1657225861034596/
Coming up on 24th April 2018, the first National Judicial Review challenging the contract NHS England developed for the 'New Care Models'
http://999callfornhs.org.uk/999-judicial-review-april-18/4594271627
http://999callfornhs.org.uk/communities/3/004/012/553/843//images/4634298352_986x492.jpg
https://i1.wp.com/www.sochealth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/acs-map.jpg?w=783&ssl=1
Graham Winyard, one of the people bringing the JR4NHS legal challenge says...
"Yet because ACOs are to be established by a commercial procurement process their legal form cannot be specified. They can be partnerships that include private health and care providers, and private insurance and property companies, which will make money from charging. We could easily end up in a situation where it is in the financial interest of an Accountable Care Organisation to progressively reduce care provided free from public funds, in favour of means tested care packages."
These on the map were due to 'go live' this month (April) but NHSE has mandated they are not to issue the new contracts until after the Judicial Reviews and consultation.
GPs are now at risk from NHS funded, for profit companies who cherry pick their healthy patients, and thus reduce their lists and therefore funding. Please read this useful leaflet from Keep Our NHS Public.
https://keepournhspublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/GP-at-Hand-KONP-national-EMAIL-version.pdf
GPs are now at risk from for-profit companies cherry picking their healthy patients and reducing their lists (and therefore funding,) to those who need more services. When they can not afford to stay open, more GPs surgeries, especially in London, will close. Please read this very useful leaflet from Keep Our NHS Public.
https://keepournhspublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/GP-at-Hand-KONP-national-EMAIL-version.pdf
GPs are now at risk from NHS funded companies who cherry pick healthy patients. Keep Our NHS Public has produced an explanatory leaflet. Boycott GP at Hand.
https://keepournhspublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/GP-at-Hand-KONP-national-EMAIL-version.pdf
Hospital chiefs said that some highly-paid surgeons had been out of action for four or five weeks because of the cancellations.
There were no beds for recovering patients, the article says, but even so, up and down England the move to reduce bed numbers still further, continues.
The Health Select Committee invited representatives from groups challenging the newly named Integrated Care Systems (formerly Accountable Care Systems) to present evidence.
Said someone afterwards, " It was not a meeting of minds." See what happened here.
http://999callfornhs.org.uk/democracy-what-democracy/4594236056
NHS Improvement, which is being set up with its values and culture, by KPMG according to Private Eye, has gone into partnership with US Virginia Mason Institute.
https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/virginia-mason-institute/
Are SubCos a secret way to transfer £millions of buildings and land into private companies?
Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships’ ‘Care Closer to Home’ schemes have fuelled a £10m corporate purchase of a doctorpreneurs’ out-of- hours/urgent care company that provides services to over nine million patients across England.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09s2dvb/south-today-evening-news-23022018
Watch from 9 minutes as a campaigner explains the impact of hospital closures in Devon.
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