| This month we have news of another scandal – this time it’s the ‘high-jacking’ of our medical data held by our GPs. |
| There is some good news too in that the Breast Care Units at Ealing & Central Middlesex Hospital are not going to close! |
| We will be out on the streets later this month and on the National Day of Action on Pay Justice on Saturday 3rd July. The Guest Speaker at our campaign meeting on 15th June is nurse activist Holly Turner, sure to inspire us to take action! |
| CAMPAIGN MEETING TUESDAY 15TH JUNE – ‘THE FIGHT FOR PAY JUSTICE’ It’s our monthly online meeting on the 15th next Tuesday and we will be discussing the latest threats to our NHS and our GP confidential data, the antics of NHS bosses and the upcoming Day of Action. |
| OUR GUEST SPEAKER IS HOLLY TURNER, who is a nurse activist from ‘NHS Workers Say NO’ and a GMB union representative. |
| Holly with be speaking about the fight for pay justice following the insulting 1% pay offer, the mood among frontline NHS workers and the next steps in the campaign. We are delighted that Holly can join us so please come along and take part. You are very welcome to join in our discussion. |
Tuesday 15th June, 7.30pm. PLEASE CONTACT ME TO BE SENT THE ZOOM LINK |
- GP Crisis – Why Patients should support GPs in their Collective Action
The crisis in the NHS is now very much in the news following the publishing of Lord Darzi’s review into the NHS. In July national figures for bed occupancy were on average at 92%, worse in North West London, at 93.2% and in our local Trust at 94.6%. The safe level is 85%. The primary reason for these high figures, as we know, is the unforgivable lack of adequate community and social care to support discharge, which has a knock on effect on A&E waits etc. Pressure on our GPs has reached crisis point after years of underfunding so they… Read more: GP Crisis – Why Patients should support GPs in their Collective Action
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| SESSION 9 – WHERE DID THE MONEY GO? WHAT MUST HAPPEN NOW? |
| 7pm – Wednesday 16 June . registration here |
| This concluding session of the Peoples Covid Inquiry takes an overview: on the policies adopted to address pandemic and related governance issues; why has Government policy been in conflict with national trade unions and what is the role of a trade union in the pandemic; there are important questions to ask, of national and international consequence, about policy and governance around the vaccination programme; and the importance of taking the views of citizens seriously. |
| THE PANEL: |
| Michael Mansfield QC (chair), Professor Neena Modi, Dr. Tolullah Oni, Dr. Jacky Davis |
| Lorna Hackett Barrister (Counsel to the Inquiry) |
| WITNESSES: |
| Kevin Courtney Joint General Secretary, National Education Union |
| Deepti Gurdasani Clinical Epidemiologist and statistical geneticist, Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning, Queen Mary University of London |
| TEST & TRACE COMPANIES CHARGE THE NHS TWICE AS MUCH AS WORKERS ARE BEING PAID! |
| Probably not really a surprise but it is no wonder that Test & Trace is so expensive when companies like Serco pay their call centre staff £9.50 per hour but claim £21.50 per hour from the NHS! This is exactly why you want the NHS running it and not the private sector. The NHS wouldn’t be charging us twice. |
| Read it here |
| GET ‘THE LOWDOWN’: |
| The latest issue is full of yet more revelations on privatisation of our NHS, but here are a few – |
| VIRGIN GETS A PLACE ON NHS BOARD! |
| NHS campaigners have been arguing that the latest NHS re-organisation, in which massive budgets are to be given to regional ‘Integrated Care Systems to plan and shape NHS services will lead to greater influence for the private sector, with a seat on the Boards. It seems that our fears are being realised as reported in ‘the Lowdown’ |
| Virgin Care’s local managing director Julia Clarke is already listed as a member of the Partnership Board, the unitary Board which currently runs the ICS covering Bristol and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW). Not only does she occupy a seat but is actively being allowed to protect the companies interests. Astoundingly the Board has asked private companies to voluntarily contribute £10,000 to the ICS running costs! |
| Read it here |
| NHS FUNDS SIPHONED OFF TO PRIVATE HOSPITALS AS NHS BEDS STAY EMPTY! |
| As a result of the demands on staff, resources and infection control bed numbers have plummeted since Spring 2020. The latest figures show there are 6000 fewer general beds and acute beds then in early 2020! |
| Instead of pumping in resources in to the NHS so it can reorganise and re-open beds in order to bring down the massive waiting lists, the Government is instead diverting up to £10 billion pounds out of NHS budgets to fund up to 90 private hospital & clinics to treat NHS patients with no doubt NHS staff – what a disgrace. |
| Recent research by the ‘Centre for Health in the Public Interest’ revealed that Government spending of up to £2bn of NHS Covid funds on supposedly block-booking private hospital beds in 2020 resulted in just 7 beds a day for Covid patients! It really is a scandal. Read it here |
| A CHANCE TO GET OUT MARCHING SHOES ON AGAIN: |
| PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY: NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION. Saturday 26th June |
| Ealing Save Our NHS is supporting this demonstration and will be meeting up locally to join what will be a big protest against the Government on many issues, including it’s mishandling of Covid -19 and the insulting 1% pay offer to NHS staff. There will be a Health Contingent led by NHS workers and Keep Our NHS Public. |
| The March assembles at 12 noon – Portland Place, W1 and then on to Parliament Square. |
| EALING MEET UP: |
| Saturday 26th June outside Ealing Broadway Station at 11.40am. |
