ShareTweet Video from the defend Whittington hospital demonstration on Saturday 16 March 2013. Roger Lloyd Pack Owen Jones: Whole march sped up: Traffic sounds support for demo: Jeremy Corbyn MP: Video by Dan Poulton
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Video from defend Whittington hospital march
Valentine’s Day in defence of Lewisham hospital
ShareTweet Fantastic film about the Valentine’s Day buggy protest outside Dept of Health in which 150 parents, grandparents, friends babies and toddlers turned up at the Department of Health to demand that Hunt doesn’t rip the heart out of our Hospital!. Jeremy Hunt: we will keep coming back! : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDc6a-5gOYQ&sns=em
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Government to amend controversial NHS competition rules
ShareTweet By Ben Clover The government will amend its controversial competition regulations, minister Norman Lamb has said Since the secondary legislation under the Health Act was laid last month, politicians, competition lawyers and health leaders have said it appears to require commissioners to introduce competition more widely than the government has previously indicated. Ministers came…
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Warning – giant private healthcare companies decide how local health services are provided – beware Regulation 75
ShareTweet Bronwen Handyside, Hackney Coalition to Save the NHS Three years ago our local City & Hackney GP Out of Hours Service was taken away from local doctors, and handed over to Harmoni (a company on which the Guardian recently ran a series of articles, questioning the quality o f…
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Act now to save the NHS
ShareTweet Caroline Molloy, Keep our NHS Public Right now, the government is trying to sneak through secondary legislation (under Section 75 of the Health & Social Care Act) to force virtually every part of the NHS to be opened up to compulsory competitive markets, open to the private sector. We have just over…
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Lies, damned lies, and the Health and Social Care Bill
ShareTweet by Neil Faulkner The National Health Service is perhaps the greatest single achievement of the British people in the 20th century. Outstanding for both efficiency and fairness, it is unsurprising that it remains one of the most popular institutions in Britain. A survey of 20,000 patients in eleven industrialised countries…
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Act today to save the NHS
ShareTweet Wendy Savage, Co-chair Keep Our NHS Public Secondary legislation under Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 We apologise for the short notice about this request for action but have only learned this morning that the deadline for writing to the clerk mentioned below is Monday 25th February so please…
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Defend London’s NHS: week of action 9-16 February
ShareTweet Hospital campaigners unite to call on government to save London’s NHS An unprecedented coalition of London residents, NHS staff, trade unions and health campaigners has come together to raise the alarm regarding the biggest threats to A & E’s, maternity units and in-hospital care for a generation. Closures planned across the capital…
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Events: Defend London’s NHS week of action 9 – 16 February
ShareTweet From Keep Our NHS Public Action to defend the NHS is urgent. At least 10 hospitals in London have casualty and maternity departments threatened with closure. Now they want to sell off half of the Whittington hospital, and even more NHS privatisation is planned. On Saturday 26 Janurary, 25,000 people marched in…
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Video: 25,000 march to save Lewisham Hospital
ShareTweet From Reel News 25,000 people march in Lewisham, South London, to stop the proposed closure of their hospital’s A&E department and downgrading of their maternity ward, cheered on by virtually every shop, pub, cafe and car they pass. Lewisham hospital is solvent and one of the top 40 hospitals in the country, but…
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