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VIDEO(s): Public Meeting, Epsom, May 2019

The KOSHH Campaign held a public meeting in Epsom Methodist Church on the 21st of May 2019. The meeting was well attended, with over 100 people present. Below, you will find videos from the event. Please check back as we will be adding new content over the next few days:   First, some background information: […]

Video: Dr Bob Gill on the proposed junior doctor contract

GP, campaigner, friend and supporter of KOSHH appeared on Sky News on 7/7/2016 to discuss the proposed new junior doctor contract.   Dr Bob Gill explains some of the problems with the government’s proposed junior doctors contract, which the majority of junior doctor members of the BMA have recently, and quite rightly voted to reject. […]

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 supports junior doctors on strike day #5 (06/04/2016)

KOSHH Campaigners went to today’s picket line outside St Helier Hospital to support the junior doctors in their struggle and were joined by representatives of Merton & Sutton TUC. Once more the weather was foul, but it’ll take more than inclement weather to stop this group of determined folk. The level of support from the general public was […]

Green Wing stars to support junior doctors

Actor, and star of channel 4 comedy drama, The Green Wing which was set in a fictional hospital, but filmed largely in Northwick Park Hospital, Stephen Mangan has said that he, and some of his co-stars will be attending and supporting the junior doctors strike on the 6th of April 2016. We salute you and your […]

Press: KOSHH in the news, A&E waiting time targets.

The Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust have missed the government target for A&E waiting times every month since August 2015. Until recently, the government target for the percentage of A&E patients to be seen within 4 hours was 98%, but in June 2010, the Con-Dem government relaxed this target to 95%. There are a number […]

Video: Multi-talented healthcare professionals at St Helier Hospital

During the junior doctors’ strike on the 9th of March 2016, we were treated to several excellent musical performances by various healthcare professionals.   You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone BMA Rep, and junior doctor Davey Thaxter treated us to a great rendition of the Joni Mitchell classic, Big Yellow Taxi. The […]

Friend of KOSHH on some of the threats to General Practice

Friend of KOSHH, and GP, Dr Yourself El-Gingihy has written a very elightening article on some of the current threats to General Practice by this government. Regular visitors to this webite will be familiar with the techniques of outsourcing, cuts, privatisation, downgrading, the looming threat of a new, less suitable contract, and general chipping away […]

NHS staff “must stick together”

Friend and supporter of KOSHH, GP Dr Bob Gill speaking to Jon Snow of Channel 4 news at the “emergency protest” called in the wake of Jeremy Hunt’s announcement that he will impose the new junior doctors’ contract.  

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