SECRET PLAN TO AXE HOSPITALS...

​http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3932864/Secret-plan-axe-hospitals-Maternity-units-Es-threat-NHS-tackle-budget-crisis-warns-respected-think-tank.html

​http://www.londonnewsonline.co.uk/9411/threadbare-health-plans-savaged-campaigners/

Secret NHS plans to shut hospitals, maternity units and A&E departments revealed - is your local service at risk?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/secret-nhs-plans-shut-down-9254830

NHS reforms ‘will put savings before patients’ http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/saving-cash-rather-than-patients-is-focus-of-health-service-reforms-x7lbcr9fz?shareToken=97405adee5e2c6054e71c9806747c485

NHS bosses 'trying to keep cuts secret'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37943379

​​NHS chiefs 'tried to keep cuts plan secret'

https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/health-and-care/nhs/news/80745/nhs-chiefs-tried-keep-cuts-plan-secret

NHS plans to close hospitals and A&E departments kept secret from the public, investigation finds
Health managers have been told not to reveal the plans to the public or the media
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/hospital-closures-stps-secret-kept-nhs-ae-public-kings-fund-england-chris-ham-stp-a7415836.html

'Secret' plans to close A&E departments could put lives at  risk, leading doctors warn http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/13/secret-plans-to-close-ae-departments-could-put-lives-at--risk-le/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

5 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT STP
https://nhaspace.com/2016/08/28/5-things-you-should-know-about-stp/

Sustainability and transformation plans in the NHS
How are they being developed in practice?

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/stps-in-the-nhs

Shortage of 3,000 A&E doctors revealed amid warnings NHS faces 'toughest winter yet'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/03/shortage-of-3000-ae-doctors-revealed-amid-warnings-nhs-faces-tou/

For those who think privatisation of our NHS is a myth/conspiracy,
please read:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/11/virgin-care-700m-contract-200-nhs-social-care-services-bath-somerset?CMP=share_btn_tw

Jeremy Hunt is criticised for his role in £650m Virgin hospital deal

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/sep/09/jeremy-hunt-virgin-hospital-deal

Virgin Care among firms with lucrative NHS deals and a tax haven status
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/21/ow-lucrative--deals-go-to-firms-that-use-tax-havens?CMP=share_btn_tw

Campaigners demand Brexiteers live up to £350m NHS promise and pay junior doctors more
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/350m-nhs-brexit-promise-bus-junior-doctors-chris-grayling-a7415286.html?utm_content=bufferaf0bf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

It looks to me that the NHS is on the verge of a collective nervous breakdown.
http://myemail.constantcontact.com/How-difficult-is-that.html?soid=1102665899193&aid=9ioK0cmKVwI

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"​

Heartening to see 'Save Charing Cross Hospital' posters going up in H&F residents' windows. Public 

​meeting​

 at Town Hall on 29 Nov, 7.30pm.

​" Cllr Ben Coleman