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Category: Health and Social Care Act 2012

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: […]

Part 1 – They want to take away your Acute Hospitals – ACT NOW!

On the 10th of November 2017, the Epsom & St Helier Trust Board decided to proceed with their plan to remove Acute Services from one or both of Epsom hospital AND St Helier hospitals. At a board meeting on the 10th of November 2017, despite significant opposition, a whole series of relevant questions being raised, […]

Lib-Dems were “Complicit In The Destruction Of Our NHS”

On Sunday the 23rd of April 2017 the BBC show, The Sunday Politics’ London edition, included a piece with the current Lib-Dem MP for Carshalton and Wallington, Tom Brake. St Helier Hospital is contained within Mr Brake’s constituency. During the 2010-2015 coalition Government, Mr Brake was a Minister in the Government, and he, along with […]

Video: Excellent motion on the NHS

On the 27th of September, at Labour Party Conference, a “contemporary motion” was put forward by a number of Constituency Labour Parties. We at KOSHH were very pleased to see that it was passed unanimously by the Conference. Disclaimer: For absolute clarity, KOSHH is not affiliated to any political party. We are a politically diverse […]

Video: Parliamentary debate on STPs

On Wednesday the 14th of September, Parliament debated the evil “Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) – a mechanism devised to enact the demands of Simon Stevens’ privatising 5 Year Forward View. This plan could see the number of NHS hospitals in the country slashed by half, or perhaps even worse, and right now, this is the […]

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 […]

What’s really at stake with the junior doctors contract?

Junior doctor, friend, and supporter of KOSHH, Aislinn Macklin-Doherty has written the following piece about the junior doctors’ contract, and how the struggle is about so much more. Crowning Glory The NHS is one of Britain’s greatest crowning glories in history, if not the greatest. Britain demonstrated to the world that it is possible for […]

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