{"id":1121,"date":"2017-11-03T12:44:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T12:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2017-11-03T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T12:44:13","slug":"protest-against-huge-privatisation-of-nhs-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/?p=1121","title":{"rendered":"Protest against huge privatisation of NHS services"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m_583065204149453860yiv8398636510yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509552135939_8433\">Campaign group Ealing Save Our NHS has protested against plans for a huge sell off of local health services.\u00a0 \u201c<i id=\"m_583065204149453860yiv8398636510yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509552135939_8434\">It\u2019s totally horrifying<\/i>\u201d said Oliver New, Chair of the Campaign.\u00a0\u00a0<i id=\"m_583065204149453860yiv8398636510yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509552135939_8435\">\u201cThe NHS is an essential public service that should never be given over to private companies who\u2019s bottom line is shareholder profits.\u201d<\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_583065204149453860yiv8398636510yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509552135939_8437\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_583065204149453860yiv8398636510yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509552135939_8439\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171031_133257.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1123 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171031_133257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171031_133257.jpg 5312w, https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171031_133257-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171031_133257-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171031_133257-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171031_133257-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171031_133257-678x381.jpg 678w, https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171031_133257-1320x743.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Ealing Clinical Commissioning Group are offering a contract to a single provider to manage\u00a0<b id=\"m_583065204149453860yiv8398636510yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509552135939_8440\">all<\/b>\u00a0NHS community based, or \u201cOut of Hospital\u201d services including community nursing, diabetes, mental health, dementia and audiology.\u00a0 On 31<sup id=\"m_583065204149453860yiv8398636510yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509552135939_8441\">st<\/sup>\u00a0October they held a public consultation in Ealing Town Hall, which led to the protest.\u00a0 During the meeting angry residents demanded that the whole project be halted or reviewed, while the organisers insisted they were only willing to discuss public feedback on operating principles of the scheme.<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_583065204149453860yiv8398636510yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509552135939_8443\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_583065204149453860yiv8398636510yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509552135939_8445\">Oliver New stated that the Health bosses had no explanation about how any private operators would be accountable to the public, nor would they give any estimate of the value of the contract.\u00a0\u00a0<i id=\"m_583065204149453860yiv8398636510yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509552135939_8446\">\u201cMake no mistake, this is huge, we believe that it\u2019s worth far more than a billion pounds of public money over the ten-year period of the contract.\u00a0 Why on earth should private companies be allowed to make profits using the NHS logo \u2013 it\u2019s the very opposite of everything the NHS stands for\u201d\u00a0<\/i>he said.\u00a0\u00a0<i id=\"m_583065204149453860yiv8398636510yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509552135939_8447\">\u201cPrevious experiences have been that large contracts to operate NHS services have ended in tears.\u201d<\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_583065204149453860yiv8398636510yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509552135939_8449\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_583065204149453860yiv8398636510yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509552135939_8451\">Official plans for the NHS in North West London have already proved very controversial. \u00a0\u00a0The \u2018<i id=\"m_583065204149453860yiv8398636510yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509552135939_8452\">Shaping a Healthier Future\u2019<\/i>\u00a0Plan has already led to the closure of the Accident and Emergency Departments at Central Middlesex and Hammersmith Hospital, along with the Maternity and Children\u2019s Wards at Ealing.\u00a0 Future plans include cutting 500 hospital beds across North West London and closing Ealing &amp;Charing Cross A&amp;Es, to be replaced by \u201cOut of Hospital\u201d services in the 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