KOSHH are holding a public meeting at 7:30pm on the 20th of October. The meeting is at the Thomas Wall Centre, 52 Benhill Avenue, Sutton, SM1 4DP. Please share this post using the social media share buttons below the video. We need your help! Facebook event page click here More info click here
Category: St Helier Hospital
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 […]
IMPORTANT! Public Meeting – 20th October 2016
Public Meeting: They plan to close your hospitals: Who will save St Helier? Thursday 20th Oct 2016 at 7.30 pm Thomas Wall Centre (formerly, Sutton Adult School) 52 Benhill Avenue, Sutton, SM1 4DP MASSIVE NHS CUTS AND CLOSURES PLANNED FOR SOUTH WEST LONDON On 23 December 2015 NHS England announced the enforced balancing of […]
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 […]
Happy St George’s Day
As regular readers of this website will know, we at KOSHH are not normally prone to announcing days of national pride. We feel that the National Health Service, as originally conceived is the finest creation of any nation, this post is perhaps more about our neighbouring hospital which happens to be named after the patron saint […]
Trust plans “third world” hospital bed provision
The Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust are working on plans to “Reconfigure” hospital services in our area, and they are due to announce these in June 2016. Plans were first leaked during the “Traingate” incident, where an 800-bed “Centre” was proposed as a “replacement” for Epsom, St Helier and Queen Mary’s hospital for […]
Update on Blurry Estates Review Pictures
We have today received the following email from the Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. We assume that this is in response to this article. We’re not sure why no change was made when we first pointed this problem out to the Trust, but we commend them for correcting the problem. It’s just […]