{"id":2818,"date":"2023-01-27T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2023-02-01T16:48:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T16:48:15","slug":"support-our-nhs-workers-day-of-action-in-ealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/?p=2818","title":{"rendered":"Support our NHS Workers – Day of Action in Ealing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Ealing Save Our NHS is proud to have started our campaigning year by joining with striking nurses earlier last week. Along with ambulances workers they are absolutely determined to\u00a0continue to fight for pay justice, but also to defend our broken NHS.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Patients are being harmed as a direct consequence of underfunding and government policies as staff struggle to deliver the quality of care they strive for every day. Horror stories abound of ambulances queuing hours to drop off patients preventing them from getting to emergencies on time, and 1000\u2019s of people waiting 12 hours or more on trolleys in overcrowded A&Es – all due to lack of beds, social care and staff shortages.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
According to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, failures in emergency care are causing\u00a0up to 500 excess deaths a week<\/strong>. How awful it must be for those working on the emergency front line.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
The Tories have certainly done their best to avoid any responsibility for the crisis. It\u2019s all down to Covid, bad management of funding, flu- anything but them. Even their own supporters don\u2019t believe them as polls show 73% of Conservative voters think they are responsible!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
NHS staff taking strike action are our beacon of light shining a spotlight for everyone to see on the true state of our NHS and\u00a0rightly deserve our absolute support<\/strong>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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PLEASE JOIN US ON 28TH JANUARY<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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28TH JANUARY \u2013 DAY OF ACTION IN SUPPORT OF NHS WORKERS \u2013 JOIN US IN EALING<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
SOS NHS and Keep Our NHS Public have called a National Day of Action in support of NHS staff and demanding that the Government take emergency action to save lives now!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Ealing Save Our NHS will be supporting the action with a\u00a0Street Stall outside Marks & Spencers in Ealing Broadway from 11.30 \u2013 1.00pm.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
We have leaflets<\/a>, \u2018I Stand with NHS Staff\u2019\u00a0<\/a>window posters<\/a>\u00a0and badges and will be encouraging people to write a short message of support on post it notes, which we will share on social media and with NHS Staff on picket lines \u2013 Should be fun!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
If you can join us\u00a0we will be very pleased to see you.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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1000 LOCAL PEOPLE OPPOSE CLOSURE OF EALINGS MENTAL HEALTH BEDS!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Ealing Save Our NHS has shone a spotlight on West London NHS Trust plans to permanently close the Hope and Horizon Wards at St Bernard’s Hospital cutting 31 much needed mental health beds and leaving Ealing with NO BEDS for seriously mentally ill residents of working age.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Ealing residents are the\u00a0main user of beds<\/strong> in all three Boroughs covered by the Trust ( Ealing, Hounslow & Hammersmith) and despite some replacement of beds in Hounslow there is an overall loss of 14 beds despite a growing Mental Health crisis!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
We recently presented our 1000 strong Petition ( picture above), which calls for these vital beds and those for children and young people to be re-opened, to both West London Trust, who are responsible for mental health services and Ealing Council, who are responsible for scrutinising theses services.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
As part of the current \u2018engagement process\u2019 being carried out by the Trust we also submitted a detailed critique of the plan, which has been widely read and is available\u00a0on our\u00a0<\/a>website<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Ealing Council has responded, by saying they are also concerned at the loss of acute mental health facilities. We know from talking to people on the streets how much local feeling there is about this issue. In a letter to ESON, Council Leader Peter Mason and Health Lead Joshua Blacker wrote:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt is vitally important that Ealing is adequately served with the acute mental health services our residents require. We have been clear with the Trust that we would not want to see any loss of resources for Ealing residents, and expect the return of acute mental health facilities back into the Borough.<\/em>\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Our campaign has certainly made an impact, contributing to the Trust extending it\u2019s \u2018public engagement\u2019 and has got some very favourable coverage in the local media.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
You can\u00a0read the Ealing News report here<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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SOLIDARITY WITH STRIKING NURSES:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Ealing Save Our NHS joined other local NHS campaigns last week to show our solidarity with striking nursing staff at University College Hospital. They are mainly young, angry and absolutely determined to fight on until they win but not just for themselves but for the NHS they support every working day.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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At 3.00pm we all set off to march to Downing Street in a demonstration organised by Keep Our NHS Public, NHS Workers Say No and NHS Staff Voices. All along the streets, buses and cars hooted their support and many people waved and cheered. Support is as strong as ever despite the best efforts of the media and Government to misrepresent them!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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SUPPORTING OUR LOCAL AMBULANCE WORKERS:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Ambulance workers up and down the country have taken the unprecedented step of taking strike action and are being blamed by Tory Ministers for putting peoples lives at risk.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPeople\u2019s lives are already being put at risk every day because we don\u2019t have the resources or staff.\u201d<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
(\u00a0Antonia Goswell Unison Rep and paramedic)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
The statistics speak for themselves with average waits now up to an average of 10 Minutes for life threatening calls – instead of the 7 minute Target and average waits of over an hour for suspected strokes and heart attacks- nothing to do with strikers at all.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n
On Monday (23rd January) Unison ambulance workers across London took strike action and ESON supporters joined them at Hanwell Ambulance Station<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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FAT CAT PRIVATE HEALTH BOSSES SET TO MAKE MORE \u00a3 OUT OF NHS CRISIS!<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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In December the Government announced the creation of an an \u2018Elective Recovery Taskforce\u2019 to provide advice on how to\u00a0\u201c turbocharge NHS recovery from the pandemic, reduce waiting times for patients and eliminate waits for routine care over a year\u00a0by 2025<\/strong>\u00a0\u201c Not much of a turbo charge really!<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
The membership of this Taskforce has been kept secret but thanks to \u2018Open Democracy\u2019\u00a0we now know the launch event was attended by seven CEOs of private health care firms (including the Chief Executives of the UKs two largest private hospital providers, Circle Health Group and Spire Healthcare) some of whom are listed as members of the new Taskforce.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
It is rather disappointing that Labour\u2019s Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting sees the private sector as part of the solution to the NHS crisis and is calling for more use of private hospitals \u2013 despite the evidence that billions have been wasted on such schemes, especially during and since the pandemic.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe private sector was bailed out during Covid, has a lucrative four-year \u00a310bn deal ongoing and is also in a position to earn massive profits from patients forced to go privately to avoid NHS queues of 7.2 million.<\/em>\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
( Tony O\u2019Sullivan Co-Chair \u2013 Keep Our NHS Public)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
You can read the\u00a0full story\u00a0<\/a>here<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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PRIVATISATION – 557 DEATHS TOO MANY \u2013 JOIN THE ACTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Anti privatisation campaign\u00a0\u2018We Own It’<\/em>\u00a0are planning their biggest action ever against NHS privatisation on Saturday 25 February (from 2-4pm at Parliament Square)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
The goal is to bring together 557 people at Parliament Square, the number of people whose deaths have been linked to privatisation, according to a recent Oxford University study. And really highlight what privatisation of the NHS really means.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n