no a&e cuts in calderdale & huddersfield v2
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No A&E CUTS IN CALDERDALE & HUDDERSFIELD
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We donʼt NEED any cuts to Calderdale and Huddersfield A&E departments. Calderdale A&E is doing fine by its patients. The Emergency Care Intensive Support Team has just reported positively on Calderdale and Huddersfield A&E departments.
We donʼt WANT to travel extra miles for accident and emergency care, when lives are at risk and transport costs are sky high.
This isnʼt just about closing Calderdale A&E.
THE PROPOSALS ARE ABOUT NHS CUTS AND DISMANTLING HOSPITAL SERVICES IN CALDERDALE AND GREATER HUDDERSFIELD
Hospital services across the board will be reduced. Patients will have to pick up the slack, in a new model of community health and social care services that will “support” people “to take maximum responsibility for their own care and wellbeing”. (The quotes are from an official letter in answer to questions we have raised. Do the officials think we donʼt already take responsibility? Or are their words code for “people will have to put up with cuts to primary health and social care?”)
These community based services would be run by the areaʼs two NHS trusts and Locala (a company that provides community health care in Kirklees), together with GPs and social care and voluntary organisations.
STEALTH NHS PRIVATISATION LEADS TO SECRECY & LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY
This plan has been cooked up by three local NHS organisations that operate as businesses and take decisions without any democratic control and accountability.
SAVE OUR A&E - BAND TOGETHER FOR THE NHS PUBLIC MEETING 12.30pm, SATURDAY 29th MARCH,
HALIFAX LEISURE CENTRE
NO A&E CUTS IN CALDERDALE AND HUDDERSFIELD
Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker E: [email protected]
Contact your representatives in Parliament and Calderdale Council
Calder Valley MP: Craig Whittaker, Tel: 01484 711260. MP's Constituency
Office, First Floor, Spring Villa, 16 Church Lane, Brighouse, HD6 1AT Email: [email protected]
Halifax MP: Linda Riordan, Constituency Office 2-4 Shaw Lodge
House, HALIFAX, HX3 9ET E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 01422 251800. The office is staffed Monday-Friday from 9am-5pm.
Your Councillors: Find their names
and contact details here http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/council/councillors/councillors/search/index.jsp
Contact key NHS bureaucrats and directors
Dr Matt Walsh, Chief Officer,
Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group, Email:[email protected]
Owen Williams, Chief Executive, CHFT, Tel: 01484 355999
Robert Flack, Chief Executive,
Locala, Twitter: @Locala_rflack
Steven Michael, Chief Executive SWYFT. Tel: main switchboard number 01924 327000.
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Fieldhead, Ouchthorpe Lane, Wakefield WF1 3SP
Get involved with No A&E Cuts campaign groups
• Save Calderdale Royal Hospital Facebook Group
• Upper Calder Valley Save Our A&E ([email protected])
• Calderdale 38 Degrees
• Band Together For the NHS
Take part in public events
Campaign stall this Sat, March 1st 10am-noon, in Halifax Town Centre
Calderdale Health & Wellbeing Board, 2pm, Tuesday 4th March, Halifax Town Hall
Calderdale 38 Degrees meeting, 6th March, 6pm,Ringo' Bells pub, HX1 (see map).
STEALTH NHS PRIVATISATION LEADS TO SECRECY & LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY
As businesses in the rapidly-privatising NHS, Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT), Locala (a spin off from NHS Kirklees Primary Care Trust) and South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (the mental health trust) havenʼt had to tell our MPs what plans they were hatching - not even when Linda Riordan MP called a debate in the House of Commons and asked for information from the Secretary of State for Health.
The public and our local Councillors still havenʼt seen the Report thatʼs the basis for the proposals. Councillors have only heard an outline presentation of the Strategic Outline Case. This document contains full information about the plans for reducing our hospital services and replacing them with community services. They havenʼt seen that either.
THESE ARE SOME OF THE REASONS WHY WE SAY,
NO A&E CUTS IN CALDERDALE AND HUDDERSFIELD
What can you do now to stop the cuts?