Lewisham A&E under threat + campaign

[ska invita]

They have a very well organised communication channel. Although unmeasurable, I think its at least admirable. Keeping up the pressure on cunts like hunt needs good organisation. For that, I don't care if a bit of self back patting is included in the propaganda.

agree, but the problem with Tories like Hunt is they are immune from pressure, as his actions here show. He had to answer to the judge eventually, but he doesnt give a shit what the public think, what health professionals think, and he certainly doesnt care what 38 degrees petitioners think. In this case, however hopefull a petition might jog someone in parliament from allowing this law change to go through.

i met up with a friend this weekend who is a civil servant - she's served under the last labour government and now under the coalition, she was saying that the thing about the Tories is they genuinely do not give a shit what happens to people - they routinely ignore advice from the civil service and are immune to emotion as to how their policies effect (normal) people on the ground.

 

[ska invita]

BBC TV Question Time Lewisham - Save our NHS Demo Thursday 09.01.14

Save Our NHS Protest in Lewisham Thursday 09.01.14 Outside BBC TV Question Time Lewisham!

ASSEMBLE: From 17:30, Thursday 9th January, 2014

LOCATION: This will be published via our Facebook, Twitter, email and text messaging facilities as soon as we know the location. It is LIKELY to be EITHER:

A) Outside Main Building, Goldsmith's University, Lewisham Way, SE14 6NW OR

B) Outside Catford Theatre, Catford Road, SE6 4RU (next to Lewisham Council offices)

It has been said Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt MAY be on the Question Time panel in Lewisham this Thursday. We have NOT been able to confirm this BUT whether he is there or not ConDem politicians WILL be on the panel so we must be there to make it clear we will NOT stand for the privatisation of our NHS. The company SERCO is right now trying to take a group of workers at Lewisham Hospital into the private sector - the GMB union is saying NO - come and join them alongside other NHS campaigners to make the message loud and clear - NO PRIVATISATION of our NHS!

The last 2 protests organised by KONP supporters outside BBC TV Question Time events have received national media coverage. This protest is worth it - TURN UP!

PLEASE 'like' us on Facebook, join the demo event as well. Also follow us on Twitter - details below...

SPREAD THE WORD NOW PLEASE:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SouthEastLondonKeepOurNHSPublic

Twitter: @SELondonKONP

Web: www.selondonkonp.org.uk (note this website is not yet live but will be available soon)

Get involved & see you this Thursday,

Helmut
South East London Keep Our NHS Public

 

[ska invita]

ASSEMBLE: From 17:30, Thursday 9th January, 2014

LOCATION CONFIRMED: Outside Goldsmith's University, Main Building (Richard Hoggart Building), Lewisham Way, SE14 6NW

 

[Chris Moore]

You have mentioned great information, thanks for sharing it. It really helpful for the people.

 

[ska invita]

New past tense book on hosptial occupations::

A New Publication from Past Tense

Occupational Hazards
Occupying Hospitals: Some inspirations and issues from our history.

past tense have recently published a dossier on some of the history of
occupying hospitals in the UK, with some longer accounts of a couple of
occupations, and shorter summaries of some twenty others.

Through the 1970s, 80s and early 1990s, more than twenty hospitals were
occupied either by NHS workers or people from local communities, usually
to prevent closures of wards or buildings. Occupational Hazards recounts
the stories of some of these actions, with first hand accounts of some,
and raises some questions about who controls the occupations and work-ins.

Can tales of these events be useful the face of current closures in the
NHS? We hope this dossier can be something of a contribution to
discussions about what control workers and 'users' can have over the NHS,
how occupations could defend services that we have now, and what
possibility there might be of extending that control. 'Occupational
Hazards' is not a finished product, more of an opening of a conversation.

Format: A4.
Cover price: £5.
84 pages
plus 40 page supplement: 'Something Should be Done'

Occupational Hazards is available by post for £5 plus £1.50 P&P

from: Past Tense
c/o 56a Info Shop
56 Crampton Street,
London
SE17 3AE

or from the publications page at our website: http://www.past-tense.org.uk

 

[ddraig]

http://dpac.uk.net/2014/03/lewisham...-of-clause-119-to-every-community-in-england/

Michael Mansfield QC, Baroness Mary Warnock and Blake Morrison, the Lewisham People’s Commission Panel, along with Lord Owen and expert medical specialists make the risks clear in relation to the case of Lewisham Hospital – which the government tried and failed to close in 2013, using the existing Trust Special Administrator (TSA) process. The insertion of Clause 119 – previously 118, into the Care Bill is an action which now puts all hospitals in England at grave risk under a distortion of the same process. Clause 119 is a cuckoo in the nest of the Care Bill which is deliberately loosely written to enable a TSA to be appointed to hospitals which are described as failing (by whatever criteria is selected) – then to be empowered to fast-track the closure of services at any other hospitals, however successful or however far away, but which are deemed to be linked to the hospital trust to which the TSA has been appointed. This potentially puts your own local hospital in danger, along with hundreds more.



- See more at: http://dpac.uk.net/2014/03/lewisham...ign=Feed:+uk/BHMU+(DPAC)#sthash.hisuaYAt.dpuf

 

[ska invita]

i fear this will pass

 

[ska invita]

Lewisham Keep Our NHS Public Open Meeting

The privatisation of your NHS continues week by week. Dreadful Private Finance Initiative contracts are also taking large sums of money from our NHS pockets. Just this week BUPA won a £235 million contract in Chichester:
http://www.chichester.co.uk/news/local/update-235m-orthopaedic-contract-awarded-to-bupa-1-6279559

The privatisation must be stopped and reversed. Our local group and a national campaign must be built. Only you can make that happen.
Upstairs at The Goose on The Green pub, Rushey Green, SE6 4BD. Opposite Catford Theatre. Tuesday 16th September, 19:30. All welcome.
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/811920025526218
Twitter SELondonKONP
See you there,
Lewisham Keep Our NHS Public

 

[ska invita]

Maybe of interest to those involved in the campaign seeing the day draws closer (hurdles and so on):

The South London Women’s Hospital Occupation 1984-85

nice piece here: """"Recently I marked the 30th anniversary of the eviction of the South London Women’s Hospital occupation with five or so friends.....https://rosannerabinowitz.wordpress.com/2015/05/04/history-is-not-just-about-the-past/ """""