Diary date! This Thursday! Merton CCG AGM! The Merton Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is one of the big decision-makers for healthcare services in South West London. Thanks to the Health and Social Care Act 2012, the CCGs are the groups that hold the pursestrings when it comes to the funding of our essential healthcare services. […]
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Healthwatch Sutton diary date, for those who can make it…
Healthwatch Sutton diary date, for those who can make it… Healthwatch Sutton is holding a semi-public meeting about the Epsom-St Helier Hospital Estates Review. We say “semi-public” because people who want to attend cannot simply turn up on the day. Instead, they must RSVP in advance. We are not sure how many people will be […]
Update on personal health budgets in South-West London/Surrey
Update on personal health budgets in South-West London/Surrey We received an excellent response to our blog post on personal health budgets, the poor media reporting of these budgets and what they may mean for health services in our area. Thank you to everyone who took the time to read the blog post and share it. […]
Summer houses on the NHS? Cutting through the news reports with questions for our CCGs!
Summer houses on the NHS? Cutting through the news reports with questions for our CCGs! Sky News led its bulletin this morning with attention-grabbing headlines about summer houses, holidays and sat-navs being funded by the NHS. Sky News didn’t actually research the story themselves – that was done by Pulse magazine, which investigated how personal […]
CCGs (or why campaigning to save the local hospitals is so hard…)
CCGs (or why campaigning to save the local hospitals is so hard…) Campaigning to save your local health services often feels like being at the foot of a mountain. You start to climb, you feel like you’ve made some progress, and then someone at the top of the mountain drops a giant bucket of mud […]
KOSHH speaks out on CCG staff taking lavish trips
KOSHH speaks out on CCG staff taking lavish trips The Epsom Guardian today reported that staff from Surrey Downs CCG and North West Surrey CCG went on a luxury spa trip to Germany funded by a pharmaceutical company. Click here to read the story online. We were asked to comment and, in short, we smell […]
KOSHH campaigner in the news!
KOSHH campaigner in the news! It has never been easier to write to your local newspaper in this era of email. And with newspapers now online, the reach of newspapers goes beyond the traditional audience of people who actually buy newspapers or have them delivered. We urge everyone to be heard via the letters pages […]
What are we celebrating on #NHS67?
What are we celebrating on #NHS67? Today the NHS turns 67. It should be a proud day of celebration. We should be able to go about our business today relaxed in the knowledge that the NHS is properly funded, properly managed and always there for us when we need it. But we are living in […]