Today’s (26/5/2016) Epsom Guardian reports that the CQC (Care Quality Commission) have recently criticised a care home in our area, run by Care UK. The CQC carried out an inspection on the Milner House Care Home in Leatherhead, and have judged that the safety of the establishment is “Inadequate”, and said that it “required improvement” in […]
Month: May 2016
G4S AGM today, a protest, and why KOSHH were there
Today (26/5/2016) saw the Annual General Meeting of G4S, held in the Holiday Inn in Sutton town centre, and a protest outside which KOSHH attended. The protest event page on social media by the “Stop G4S” campaign group lists the following as the reasons for the protest: KOSHH campaigners were there to show our […]
Video: Jeremy Hunt finally admits the direction of travel for your NHS
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has gone on the record, and given a flavour of his intentions for the NHS. This clip, recorded at a Health Select Committee, oral evidence session, and in it, Mr Hunt has explained his intended direction of travel for your health service, as “moving forward” towards a system like that employed by […]
Press: Not So Super Hospital
For the second week running, the future of St Helier Hospital has, quite rightly, been front page news in the local Guardian newspaper. Partly in response to our article about hospital bed provision which you can read here, the Sutton Guardian have run the following piece on the front page of today’s paper. This follows last […]
KOSHH at the Cheam Charter Fair, 2016
The Cheam Charter Fair happened today (14/05/2016) and KOSHH campaigners were there to deliver leaflets and speak with the people about the threats faced by St Helier, Queen Mary’s, and Epsom hospitals. Hundreds of leaflets and window signs were given out, and people were very interested and concerned for the future of our hospitals, and […]
Epsom & St Helier, the plot sickens
The Wimbledon Guardian have today run a front page article about the threat to St Helier, but recent developments have been a little confusing. For clarity, we have put together a brief timeline of events over the last year or so. In January 2015, Daniel Elkeles started work at Epsom & St Helier Trust, as […]
KOSHH Takes To The Streets for the Croydon May Day Parade
KOSHH campaigners were very proud to be a part of the this year’s Croydon Trade Union Council’s annual May day Parade through Croydon, followed by a rally at Ruskin House on Saturday the 30th of April 2016. We had arrived at Ruskin House before the march, in order to set up our gazebo and stall in […]