The 26th of April 2016 saw the first ever “all out” strike by NHS junior doctors, in response to the threatened imposition of an unsafe contract. On the same afternoon, a protest march went from St Thomas’ Hospital to Downing Street, where a rally took place. During the rally, friends and supporters of KOSHH, the National […]
Month: April 2016
Faith
Video: The BBC finally talk about the TTIP
As regular readers of this website will know, the BBC have not exactly covered themselves in glory in terms of accurately reporting the news, especially with regard to progress on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), but something seems to have happened at BBC towers – They appear to have spent quite a lot […]
These kids support the junior doctors – It’s their NHS too.
Junior doctors Industrial action planned for 26 and 27 April 2016. This will amount to a full withdrawal of labour between the hours of 8am and 5pm on Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 April (18 hours in total) This wave of industrial action was escalated to a full withdrawal of labour by junior doctors between […]
Happy St George’s Day
As regular readers of this website will know, we at KOSHH are not normally prone to announcing days of national pride. We feel that the National Health Service, as originally conceived is the finest creation of any nation, this post is perhaps more about our neighbouring hospital which happens to be named after the patron saint […]
Trust plans “third world” hospital bed provision
The Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust are working on plans to “Reconfigure” hospital services in our area, and they are due to announce these in June 2016. Plans were first leaked during the “Traingate” incident, where an 800-bed “Centre” was proposed as a “replacement” for Epsom, St Helier and Queen Mary’s hospital for […]
Update on Blurry Estates Review Pictures
We have today received the following email from the Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. We assume that this is in response to this article. We’re not sure why no change was made when we first pointed this problem out to the Trust, but we commend them for correcting the problem. It’s just […]
It’s all just a blur
As we have previously highlighted (see links here, here, and here especially) the Epsom & St Helier Trust has produced a document they call their “Estates Review”. The document is riddled with contradictions, some of which we will go into elsewhere. It appears to have been drafted to give the impression of a hospital trust whose buildings are […]
The tale of the tarpaulin
As we have previously highlighted (see links here, here, and here especially) the Epsom & St Helier Trust has produced a document they call their “Estates Review”. The document is riddled with contradictions, some of which we will go into elsewhere. It appears to have been drafted to give the impression of a hospital trust whose buildings are […]
You can’t have it both ways
As we have previously highlighted (see links here, here, and here especially) the Epsom & St Helier Trust has produced a document they call their “Estates Review”. The document is riddled with contradictions, some of which we will go into elsewhere. It appears to have been drafted to give the impression of a hospital trust whose buildings are […]