{"id":2661,"date":"2022-05-13T12:10:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T12:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/?p=2661"},"modified":"2022-09-02T15:28:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T15:28:26","slug":"the-nhs-needs-our-support-more-than-ever%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/?p=2661","title":{"rendered":"The NHS needs our support more than ever!\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Yet none of this causes \u2018our\u2019 Government to change course. Instead they have pressed ahead with the Health & Care Act, which will only make matters worse, and have set impossible financial targets for NHS Trusts and the newly created \u2018Integrated Care Boards\u2019. If they comply with these targets it will mean a much worse service for all patients.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
All the more reasons for us to keep up our campaigning!!<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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**ESON CAMPAIGN MEETING: TUESDAY 17th MAY**<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
We hope you can join us at our\u00a0online<\/strong>\u00a0Campaign Meeting next Tuesday\u00a0at\u00a07.30pm<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
From\u00a07.30 – 8.15pm<\/strong>\u00a0we will hear from our\u00a0Guest Speaker,\u00a0Paul Day, Director of the \u2018Pharmacist Defence Association and Union\u2019 (PDA)<\/strong>. The PDA represents and supports individual pharmacists (and pharmacy students). Pharmacists played a fantastic role in supporting the roll out of the Covid vaccine and are under increasing pressure from the Government to play an even greater role in patient care without extra resources. Paul will be happy to answer questions, including concerns about drug supplies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
From around 8.15pm<\/strong>\u00a0we have the business part of our meeting where we will be discussing our Stall at Hanwell Carnival on 18th\u00a0June, campaigning in \u2018NWL\u2019, ideas for leaflets and a report back on our meeting with local NHS officials on mental health and future NHS organisation in the Borough.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
You are very welcome to join our meeting at 7.30pm on the Zoom link\u00a0here\u00a0<\/a>\u2013<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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EALING BROADWAY STREET STALL \u2013 SATURDAY 21ST MAY:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Our next Stall will be from\u00a011.30 \u2013 1.00 pm<\/strong>\u00a0outside Marks & Spencers in Ealing Broadway. As usual we will have plenty of leaflets to give out and our Petition to reinstate acute mental health beds in the Borough.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
If you can help for a while we will be very pleased to see you.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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A ROUND UP OF WHATS HAPPENING IN NORTH WEST LONDON NHS:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Ealing Hospital<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/strong>A review of services is to take place at long last! We are pleased to report that the new Chief Executive of London North West NHS Trust, Pippa Nightingale, has agreed to meet us to discuss this and other concerns.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
North West London:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Along with other campaigners in North West London we attend the \u2018in-public\u2019 meetings of the North West London CCG, which covers eight Boroughs and is soon to be replaced by the North West London Integrated Care System (ICS). It is an opportunity for campaigners to gather information and ask questions about what\u2019s happening to our NHS services.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Some of the highlights from the recent NWL CCG meeting are –<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Unacceptable levels of bullying and harassment in NWL NHS<\/strong>:\u00a0This was revealed in the National NHS Staff Survey along with general dissatisfaction among staff across the Board. The new NWL CEO Rob Hurd is making it his top priority to address it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Finances under the Cosh<\/strong>: Plans to reduce their \u2018projected\u2019 \u00a392.9million deficit – and the Government\u2019s unreasonable targets of pre-Covid levels + 4% for elective care activity will only lead to more cuts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Apparently NWL ICS is the lead for the London Ambulance Service and its \u00a369 Million deficit, so more cuts for this struggling service no doubt.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Private Contracts<\/strong>:\u00a0There are literally\u00a0hundreds of\u00a0contracts\u00a0but we only get to hear about the eight over \u00a35million. BMI\/Circle are doing very well with a \u00a36 million contract for \u2018increasing elective care capacity\u2019. Apparently the NHS can\u2019t meet the Government\u2019s 104% target without them.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Performance<\/strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0Pretty much a tale of long A&E waits, emergency calls not being answered in 30 seconds as required and in some cases being ABANDONED. Shockingly people needing a Mental Health assessment routinely wait 12 hour in A&E and this was normal even before Covid!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\u2018HEALTH & CARE ACT \u2013 AN ATTACK ON THE NHS\u2019 :<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The Health & Care Act, which has just been passed by Parliament, is an attack on the NHS, breaking it up into 42 regional and separate units, called Integrated Care Systems (ICS),<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
These Integrated Care Systems cover huge areas. The North West London ICS, which includes Ealing, covers eight boroughs with a population of over 2.2 million.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
It will have a massive budget (tightly controlled by Central Government) and total control over who delivers services and indeed what services are provided across the whole of North West London.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
It will also open the doors to even greater privatisation and doing absolutely nothing to address the massive shortages of staff and chronic underfunding.- in fact there is even a threat to national pay and conditions for NHS staff.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
We have a short article on our website that explains the new NHS structures and the threat of the Health & Care Act to the NHS.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s an easy read and it would be great\u00a0if\u00a0you could circulate it to friends and family.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n
READ IT\u00a0HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Please support the latest Petition from \u2018Keep Our NHS Public\u2019\u00a0on their website.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
The aim is to keep up the pressure on the Government to change course.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
The Petition demands that Health Secretary Sajid Javid takes urgent action to:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n