Update on our meeting with Merton CCG! KOSHH campaigners had planned to meet with Merton CCG on 13 October. However, we have decided to postpone the meeting until after the Merton CCG has release its public response to the Epsom-St Helier Estates Review document. Click here to read the document for yourself. In September, we […]
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KOSHH in the news! Featuring Tom Brake MP making curious statements…
KOSHH in the news! Featuring Tom Brake MP making curious statements… KOSHH has made it to the front page of today’s Sutton Guardian. It is always encouraging to get coverage in the media although we wish the future of our local health services was assured and we didn’t have to keep waking people up to […]
Merton CCG AGM: KOSHH’s concerns
Merton CCG AGM: KOSHH’s concerns We attended the Merton Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Annual General Meeting last Thursday night and our concerns for the future of St Helier Hospital remain as strong as ever. The AGM organisers called for questions in advance. Despite this, the only questions submitted were from KOSHH. Our first question was […]
Diary date! This Thursday! Merton CCG AGM!
Diary date! This Thursday! Merton CCG AGM! The Merton Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is one of the big decision-makers for healthcare services in South West London. Thanks to the Health and Social Care Act 2012, the CCGs are the groups that hold the pursestrings when it comes to the funding of our essential healthcare services. […]
Healthwatch Sutton diary date, for those who can make it…
Healthwatch Sutton diary date, for those who can make it… Healthwatch Sutton is holding a semi-public meeting about the Epsom-St Helier Hospital Estates Review. We say “semi-public” because people who want to attend cannot simply turn up on the day. Instead, they must RSVP in advance. We are not sure how many people will be […]
Update on personal health budgets in South-West London/Surrey
Update on personal health budgets in South-West London/Surrey We received an excellent response to our blog post on personal health budgets, the poor media reporting of these budgets and what they may mean for health services in our area. Thank you to everyone who took the time to read the blog post and share it. […]
Summer houses on the NHS? Cutting through the news reports with questions for our CCGs!
Summer houses on the NHS? Cutting through the news reports with questions for our CCGs! Sky News led its bulletin this morning with attention-grabbing headlines about summer houses, holidays and sat-navs being funded by the NHS. Sky News didn’t actually research the story themselves – that was done by Pulse magazine, which investigated how personal […]
CCGs (or why campaigning to save the local hospitals is so hard…)
CCGs (or why campaigning to save the local hospitals is so hard…) Campaigning to save your local health services often feels like being at the foot of a mountain. You start to climb, you feel like you’ve made some progress, and then someone at the top of the mountain drops a giant bucket of mud […]
KOSHH speaks out on CCG staff taking lavish trips
KOSHH speaks out on CCG staff taking lavish trips The Epsom Guardian today reported that staff from Surrey Downs CCG and North West Surrey CCG went on a luxury spa trip to Germany funded by a pharmaceutical company. Click here to read the story online. We were asked to comment and, in short, we smell […]
Asking questions of the Epsom-St Helier Trust, Part I
Asking questions of the Epsom-St Helier Trust, Part I Yesterday, we informed the public that the Epsom-St Helier Trust’s Estates Review document is not a benign document about mere bricks and mortar. It is about the very future of our local hospitals. KOSHH campaigners are systematically going through the document and we have already started asking […]
