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Tuesday, 14 January 2020
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Monday, 6 May 2019
HOSPITALS YES – HEALTH CUTS NO
NHS campaigners from Save Our Hospitals and from Ealing Save Our NHS held a lively lunchtime rally in Lyric Square Hammersmith on Saturday May 4th to celebrate the saving of Charing Cross and Ealing Hospitals as major acute hospitals.
However, speakers at the rally who, in addition to campaigners from Hammersmith and Ealing included MP Andy Slaughter and Steve Cowan leader of H&F Council, condemned the scandalous plans by H&F health bosses to cut more than £30m in this financial year from the local health budget.
Initially people in the borough are facing cuts to dementia services, stroke provision, cardiology services, dermatology services and gynaecology services in the community. It is also proposed that financial savings will be made by cutting back night hours from Hammersmith Hospital Urgent Care Centre and by cutting medical hubs from the current three to 2 or even 1. And, on top of all this, GP after hours funding is being cut. The rally condemned these cuts as entirely unacceptable attacks on health provision.
Mention was also made of the digital service, Babylon GP at Hand which campaigners have just learned is taking out more than £20m and rising from local health budgets, thus undermining GP and other health services in the borough.
On a bright afternoon passers-by listened to speakers, took leaflets, signed petitions and engaged with campaigners. In particular passers-by enjoyed campaigners singing and a lively improvised communal dance. The high point was a die-in staged by SOH campaigners – many bloody and bandaged - demonstrating the damaging effects to our health were these cuts to go ahead.
Wednesday, 27 March 2019
WE'VE WON
Today in parliament (26/03/2019) the Secretary of Health Matt Hancock announced that the closure plans for both Charing Cross and Ealing hospitals contained in the cuts & closures plan known as Shaping A Healthier Future have been withdrawn We've won. Its not been easy taking on a well funded posse of spin doctors, management consultants and political ideologues but many thousands of people have done just that and after a 7 year fight we've stopped a closure plan that was downright dangerous. Everyone has done their bit whether that's signing petitions, challenging bureaucrats in meetings, running street stalls , demonstrating, fundraising or delivering & displaying posters. Tonight we should feel really proud of ourselves and celebrate our collective achievement.
Of course there are still huge problems: The £30m primary & community cuts planned for H&F, the state of disrepair in our hospitals, on going understaffing & under resourcing coupled with the threat of privatisation by the likes of Babylon and Virgin. Some may have seen the laughable attempts of local conservative MPs and councillors to claim responsibility for a victory they have consistently done their best to sabotage It's also true that the government could change it's mind and come back with new closure plans in the future.
So we'll have to keep campaigning - we've proven today that campaigning works. But for tonight let's just celebrate a victory won by lots of different people (including you) working together to Save Charing Cross Hospital.
Kind Regards AD(SOH chair)
https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/08822533-8e7f-4b91-bbee-21407e5445e0.
Ealing and Charing Cross A&E closure plans scrapped - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-47708750
Of course there are still huge problems: The £30m primary & community cuts planned for H&F, the state of disrepair in our hospitals, on going understaffing & under resourcing coupled with the threat of privatisation by the likes of Babylon and Virgin. Some may have seen the laughable attempts of local conservative MPs and councillors to claim responsibility for a victory they have consistently done their best to sabotage It's also true that the government could change it's mind and come back with new closure plans in the future.
So we'll have to keep campaigning - we've proven today that campaigning works. But for tonight let's just celebrate a victory won by lots of different people (including you) working together to Save Charing Cross Hospital.
Kind Regards AD(SOH chair)
https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/08822533-8e7f-4b91-bbee-21407e5445e0.
Ealing and Charing Cross A&E closure plans scrapped - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-47708750
Friday, 8 February 2019
You can help save the urgent care centre at Hammersmith Hospital - but you need to act now
It's where you can get vital NHS treatment for things that aren't life threatening
- 15:27, 5 FEB 2019
- There's a chance to have your say before the NHS closes the unit to try to save money (Image: Getty images)
There are plans to close an "underused" out of hours urgent care centre in Hammersmith .
It's where you can go 24-hours-a-day to be seen urgently if your illness is not life threatening.
And, if you have strong views on that, now is the time to speak up.
Residents are to be asked what they think - there are six weeks to have a say.
The closure is one of several options which will be included in a consultation this month as the cash- strapped Hammersmith and Fulham Clinical Commissioning Group looks to save money.
It estimates that shutting one of its two urgent care centres which are open overnight from 8pm to 8am, reducing weekend plus GP appointments from one practice to three and cutting 155 extended hours GP appointments a week, could save £1m a year.
It said it had no plans to close the urgent care centre at Charing Cross Hospital, or reduce its hours from 2am to 6am.
So, how under-used is it?
An average of seven patients are seen at the urgent care centre at Hammersmith Hospital on any night.
Of those, an average of only two need emergency or urgent care, according to the CCG.
It said the highest number of people ever turning up between midnight and 8am was 18.
So it's up and down.
But that's still a lot of people.
In 2017/18, nearly 33,000 people visited, with 47,000 patients turning up at Charing Cross, which has seen a maximum of 20 people during the midnight to 8am slot.
Now the consultation begins
The CCG has already talked to Healthwatch about the best way to consult residents about the options.
MD Janet Cree told Hammersmith and Fulham’s health and well-being board that it was not practical to send letters to every patient. That data is not available.
It has already staged a series of pre-consultation events and discussed ways it will stage the formal consultation.
The CCG’s co-vice chair, Vanessa Andreae, said patients commented at last year’s pre-consultation events that "they were not always aware of what’s available. Having a single location could reduce that complexity".
She added many of the appointments were filled by the practices’ patients.
Ms Cree said: "There is nothing determined until we get that feedback."
Have your say
Councillor Ben Coleman, who is Cabinet member for health and adult social care urged residents to respond.
The Labour politician said:"Our local NHS is under attack from government funding cuts. Almost 50 people attend Hammersmith Hospital's Urgent Care Centre overnight each week and nearly one in three of these requires urgent or emergency treatment.
"This consultation could lead to the service being closed. I urge residents to respond."
The consultation will last six weeks.
Wednesday, 5 December 2018
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Monday, 18 June 2018
Friday, 23 March 2018
Monday, 26 February 2018
Thursday, 7 December 2017
Wednesday, 1 November 2017
Future of Charing Cross Hospital from Westminster Hall 01/11/2017
Future of Charing Cross hospital (1) - Question from Andy Slaughter MP for Hammersmith
Future of Charing Cross hospital (
2
) - Question from Andy Slaughter MP for HammersmithSunday, 29 October 2017
Sunday, 24 September 2017
It is time to march for our Hospitals, join us on the 30th of Sept
Check also Hammersmith and Fulham Council website here:
https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/articles/news/2017/09/residents-urged-rally-against-flawed-hospital-cuts
Monday, 14 August 2017
Millions more are made to wait by NHS and more news...
Paddington Cube roads layout ‘will hinder A&E dash to St Mary’s’
https://www.standard.co.uk/new
Health inequality gap ‘is still growing’ in England, new Department of Health data shows
https://amp.theguardian.com/
https://amp.theguardian.com/
https://www.theguardian.com/
‘Nothing Is Safe’ As Care Home Flogged
https://www.morningstaronline.
https://inews.co.uk/
Tory government quietly doubles number of NHS properties it is selling off
The Tories have quietly DOUBLED the number of NHS properties they're selling off
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/
NHS will be selling surplus land for at least 10 years – but will it make a difference?https://inews.co.uk/
Save Ealing & Charing Cross Hospitals March & Rally Sat 30 Sept 2017
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OH at Barts's Strike
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