The Sutton Guardian have today run a story in the print edition of their newspaper, covering the fact that the Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust have missed the government’s A&E target for 95% of patients to be seen within 4 hours, for August 2015, September 2015, October 2015, November 2015, December 2015 […]
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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: KOSHH Support the junior doctors at strike day #3
On the third day of industrial action (9th of March 2016) KOSHH campaigners were out to show our support for the junior doctors on strike at St Helier Hospital. Members of Merton and Sutton Trades Council were also present to show their support, including the chair, Maisie Carter (see video below). No show by any […]
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NHS staff “must stick together”
KOSHH stands shoulder to shoulder with the junior doctors
Campaigners from KOSHH were out to show their support for the junior doctors at the picket lines today, at St Helier Hospital and Sutton train station. Lots of people driving past showed their support by sounding their horns enthusiastically. Read the KOSHH statement on the junior doctors strike here, here and here.
“Record numbers of patients at Epsom and St Helier” – and what it means for you
The Epsom and St Helier Trust have announced “record numbers” of patients during 2015, an increase on 2014’s figures of “over 11,000”. See the press release here. KOSHH commends the hard work of the excellent staff at Epsom and St Helier in coping with this increase. It is important to remember that early 2015 saw […]
Are you extracting the urine Mr Cameron?
At Prime Minister’s Questions today (25 Nov 2015) Mr Cameron said (as part of his claim to be looking after the interests of women): “We’ve also done more than any previous Government to help in terms of … preventing the horrors of FGM that don’t just happen in Nigeria and countries in North Africa, they […]