On 30 July (2pm, Leeds Civic Centre) a meeting in public of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Sustainability and Transformation Plan Joint Health Scrutiny Committee will question West Yorkshire and Harrogate Integrated Care System leaders about what they’re up to. … Continue reading
Underfunded NHS clinical commissioning groups could be spending over £16 million between them, for advice from management consultants on the secretive shake-up of health and social care in England. Unite, with 100,000 members in the NHS, said that health secretary … Continue reading
On 25 August, Calderdale Health and Wellbeing Board meeting discussed 3 documents about Sustainability and Transformation Plans, in order to decide whether to accept the following recommendations that the Health and Wellbeing Board had previously made at a private, un-minuted … Continue reading
There were 15 minutes for public questions at the 25th August Calderdale Health and Wellbeing Board meeting, which discussed recommendations about the Calderdale Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP), from a private meeting on 11th August between the Health and Wellbeing … Continue reading
Digitech is central to NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans, says ex-Cerner Vice President turned NHS England Director. What fresh revolving door horror is this? Before he started his job at NHS England – pushing digitech as key to Sustainability and … Continue reading
A secret process to cut and further privatise NHS services is charging ahead across England. It goes under the name of Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs). England has been divided into 44 Sustainability and Transformation Plan ‘footprints’ which must make … Continue reading
A secret process to cut NHS spending and services is galloping ahead across England. If you think this is all a VERY BAD IDEA, please tell your MP and Councillors. And get in touch with Calderdale & Kirklees 999 Call … Continue reading
The 150th Annual Trades Council Conference has unanimously passed a composite NHS motion from Cheshire, Calderdale and Derby Trades Councils, that calls on the TUC to take action to oppose Accountable Care Systems (rebranded by NHS England as “Integrated Care … Continue reading
How can this Report be independent when you read the identity of two of the three special advisers, and find in footnote 10, the conflict of interest declaration for Chris Ham & Anna Charles (both employed by the Kings Fund)? … Continue reading
Bootham Park Hospital was closed at the end of September 2015 on the sudden instruction of the Care Quality Commission, following their unannounced inspection five days before the contract for running the hospital was due to be taken up by … Continue reading