Year: 2017
Appeal to fund Judicial Review vs Jeremy Hunt and ACO imposition
Notice of intention to seek judicial review served on Hunt Co -author of the NHS Reinstatement Bill (with Peter Roderick) Professor Allyson Pollock, Dr Colin Hutchinson, Professor Sue Richards and Dr Graham Winyard, have written to […]
Docs Not Cops – ‘Protect access to NHS on basis of need’
Our thanks to Docs Not Cops for this guest post on their work and recent concession won from the Department of Health. Docs Not Cops is a group of NHS staff and patients that work to combat […]
Press Summary – 27th October
27th October There was outcry amongst campaigners, press and politicians following the disclosure of Southend University Hospital Trust’s plans to trial an ‘Airbnb’ style plan of sending discharged patients to private spare rooms. These plans […]
Trust disowns scheme putting patients in ‘Airbnb style’ local homes – for now!
The plan to discharge inpatients to care of local residents with spare rooms at £50 a day has been put on hold following an outcry from campaigners, press and politicians. The HSJ today (26 October) […]
NHS start charging migrants and visitors under new Government rules
A variety of news outlets have reported the change in rules that have recently come into force in the NHS; that migrants and visitors to the UK will now be made to pay upfront to […]
Smokers and the overweight banned from non-urgent surgery in Hertfordshire
[Jeremy Hunt’s Tate & Lyle lanyard after speech on obesity – Conservative Party Conf.] On the 12th October Herts Valleys and East & North Hertfordshire Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) announced a number of distressing decisions […]
Hunt and Department of Health consider ban on patients walking into A&E
On the 13th October The Pulse Today reported that NHS England was considering a pilot scheme to stop walk in patients in A&E departments. Under the scheme patients would have to be referred by either 111 […]
Press Summary – 17th October
16th October Brexit causing European staff to leave the NHS A BBC analysis shows that there is a greater proportion of EU Nationals leaving the NHS and many fewer joining, presumably in reaction to their […]