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
2 more areas now on the list for fast tracking to Accountable Care Systems (ACS) are West Yorkshire
http://www.wyhpartnership.co.uk/blog/weeks-message-sent-rob-webster-ceo-lead-west-yorkshire-and-harrogate-wyh-health-and-care-partnership-you-can-find-out-more-about-1
and Cornwall....
https://cornishstuff.com/2017/11/28/fast-tracked-toward-an-aco-is-cornwalls-nhs-being-americanized/
Is this a TTIP type legal suit about loss of future earnings? Virgin Care gets undisclosed sum for not being awarded an extension to it's contract!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5022569/bransons-health-firm-wins-high-court-battle-with-nhs/
https://keepournhspublic.com/news/virgin-threats-net-2m-from-nhs-in-surrey/
And here is news of a 'partner' in the West Yorkshire Sustainability and Transformation 'Partnership', soon to be Accountable (or Accountant-led) Care System (ACS).
https://calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.wordpress.com/2017/11/30/councillors-scrutinise-the-whole-nhs-slash-and-trash-plan-including-intended-switch-to-accountable-care-system-next-april/
Here is a 'partner' in the Surrey Sustainability and Transformation 'Partnership'.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5022569/bransons-health-firm-wins-high-court-battle-with-nhs/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/28/nhs-pays-virgin-threatens-sue-losing-contract/
https://keepournhspublic.com/uncategorised/virgin-threats-net-2m-from-nhs-in-surrey/
How is this fair?
Having to go home in a taxi following open heart surgery would be dangerous and a possible outcome may be sudden readmission. What have we become, to condone this?
At the meeting the CEO representing the 3 Leeds CCGs commented that the 3 Leeds GP Federations, were going to remain 3 Federations and not combine or merge in the same way as the Leeds CCGs were working together. However he hinted that there may be on overarching 'umbrella' organisation, to keep then together, in the future. Why did I think of Sodexo facilities management company, in the meeting? Strange!
Are you in one of the 8 areas fast tracked to being an Accountable Care System or Organisation?
South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw
Frimley Health;
Nottinghamshire;
Blackpool and Fylde Coast;
Dorset;
Luton, Milton Keynes and Bedfordshire;
West Berkshire; and
Buckinghamshire
This is what it means for patients.
https://www.facebook.com/999CallForTheNhs/videos/1486337558123428/
The 3 Leeds CCGs are discussing the move to become an ACS at their Meeting in at 1pm in the Civic Hall Leeds 14th November 2017
http://democracy.leeds.gov.uk/documents/s167092/System%20Integration%20-%20cover%20report%20and%20CCG%20report%20combined%20-%20final.pdf
A packed public meeting in Ludlow where people tell Philip Dunne MP that they do not want the closure of their local Ludlow hospital.
https://www.facebook.com/UnderMinion/videos/368206163604439/
Stage 2 of a legal challenge, to stop the new contract for the STPs as they become Accountable Care Systems and Organisations, also called Multispeciality Community Providers..
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/our-nhs-comprehensive-health-for-all/
Southend Hospital backs off 'Airbnb beds' plan
The latest money making STP wheeze in Southend seems to be driven by conflicts of interest.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/oct/25/nhs-to-pilot-airbnb-type-scheme-for-patients-recovering-from-surgery?CMP=share_btn_link
Southend Save NHS campaign says "The Care Rooms company is advised by former NHS England Director Mike Bewick – who co-incidentally is also the Independent Chair of the Mid and South Essex Success STP. This is just another example of our local STP attempting to cut costs at the expense of people’s care. "
https://www.facebook.com/SaveSouthendNHS/posts/248321219027450
Campaigners buoyed up by the success of the Horton Hospital Judicial Review.
http://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/nhs-campaigners-across-england-encouraged-by-horton-court-result-1-8148448
Can this be replicated elsewhere?
How come in the US in 2014, the third most likely cause of death was preventable medical error? Concerned Doctors trying to improve outcomes there, always come up against the stumbling block of 'Commercial Confidentiality.' Companies will not disclose their procedures or practices in case a competitor sees them, therefore scrutinising doctors on examining committees, do not know how they can put these said practices right. This may begin to happen here in England, as more and more services are 'outsourced'.
http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/news/bath-news/virgin-care-asks-bath-staff-581823
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