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Video: Justice For Health vs Jeremy Hunt

On the morning of 28th of September 2016, Victoria Derbyshire interviewed three junior doctors about the legal case brought by the Justice For Health team against Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt. The judgement for this case was passed last week, but was due to be announced shortly after this interview. The attempt to […]

Video: Friend and Supporter of KOSHH releases protest song

Friend and supporter of KOSHH, Dr Rishi Dhir, who has been a junior doctor for 10 years, has released the song entitled ‘Stand Up’ as an anthem of solidarity as junior doctors voted on whether to accept proposed new contracts. The proceeds from this song will be going to charity.   On Monday the 4th […]

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 […]

The truth can be scary

KOSHH Campaigner, Georgia Lewis shares her thoughts on scaremongering: “You’re scaremongering!” It is a common accusation when you are campaigning to save your local hospital and, indeed, the wider NHS. The “scaremongering” accusation is often used to either try and shut a discussion down or as a way of sticking fingers in ears and burying […]

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 […]

Where do this MPs loyalties lie?

Further to our recent post, which explained that MP for Sutton and Cheam, Paul Scully, who did not turn up on either of the recent junior doctors’ picket lines, was due to attend a ceremony at a private hospital in the constituency, it would appear that he did indeed attend. Spire St Anthony’s hospital are […]

Tory MP, Paul Scully to celebrate with private hospital

Only a week since Conservative health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced his intention to impose a new contract upon NHS junior doctors, and the Sutton Guardian have reported that Conservative MP for Sutton and Cheam, Paul Scully intends to attend a “topping out” ceremony to celebrate the building of a new facility at a private hospital […]

Urgent: Save Our Pharmacies

The Epsom Guardian have published another very thorough article, this time on the looming threat to local Pharmacies. You can read the online edition of the report by clicking here, and we have provided a copy for your reference below. “At a meeting of MPs and peers at the All-Party Pharmacy Group in January, Mr Burt […]

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