STOP THEM WRECKING OUR HOSPITALS

Healthcare in North West London is being put

UNDER THE KNIFE!

WE HAVE TO STOP THE PLANS TO CUT & WRECK

OUR HOSPITALS ! 

North West London NHS Bosses are launching a “consultation” over plans that could:

ã Cut 5,600 NHS jobs in North West London

ã Close Central Middlesex Hospital’s Accident & Emergency and 3 others

ã Undermine and perhaps close whole hospitals

ã Split up health services ready for privatisation 

If you are interested in helping to build a campaign to stop these plans, please come along to the

Organising meeting

Tuesday, 3^rd July

7.30 p.m.,

Trades Hall, 375 High Road, NW10 2JR

(close to Willesden Bus garage)

Damning report on NW London NHS hospital closure plans

Plans to drastically cut health services are exposed in a hard hitting Report “North West London’s NHS - Under the Knife”, written by John Lister, Director of London Health Emergency.

 

The Report, commissioned by Ealing, Brent and Harrow Trades Union Councils, shows that far from improving or modernising services, the outcome of the NWL NHS plans, “Shaping a Healthier Future” , would inevitably be a massive reduction in both hospital beds and services, without any corresponding increase in alternative provision.

  

Dr Lister states that the proposals “could result in the loss of 1750 NHS jobs in 12 months, and 5,600 jobs by 2015, along with the downgrading and downsizing of many local hospitals and services, and the closure of up to 4 of its 8 A&E units.”

 

Although NWL NHS try to avoid stating which hospitals and A&E Departments are under threat; Dr Lister’s analysis shows that the targets of the cuts are likely to be Ealing, Central Middlesex, Charing Cross and Hammersmith, leaving a massive area of London without A&E provision.

 

He goes on to say that “trendy arguments ... suggesting that new “settings” can deliver services more efficiently and effectively than hospitals: the only snag is that these “settings” and services exist only on paper, lacking the funds, facilities, staff and any political commitment to make them a reality.”

 

Dr Lister will be the headline speaker at the Ealing TUC public meeting on Tuesday 26th June at 7.30pm in Ealing Town Hall.  

The report is posted below:

 

UNDER THE KNIFE

BRENT TRADES UNION COUNCIL

Public Meeting with

Dr John Lister,

London Health Emergency

Candy Udwin,

Chair London Keep Our NHS Public

UNITE Health Union representative

WEDNESDAY JUNE 13 th 7.30 pm

Harlesden Methodist Church

25 Harlesden High St, NW10 4NE

Nr Harlesden Jubilee Clock

Proposed changes to local health services

could mean the merger of Ealing, Northwick

Park and Central Middlesex Hospitals with

the loss of A & E at CMH or Ealing or both

and moving many more services out of

hospitals into the community, opening them

up to the private sector to be run for profit.

Say NO to cuts and privatisation

DEFEND OUR LOCAL HEALTH SERVICES

Ann John ousted as Council leader

Muhammed Butt, deputy leader of Brent Council, ousted Ann John at the Labour Group AGM this weekend by 21 votes to 19.  His election as Brent Council leader is subject to confirmation at the Full Council meeting on Wednesday.

Cllr James Powney survived a challenge from Cllr Claudia Hector.

On Thursday Brent Fightback will be making representations on the Council leafleting licensing scheme at the Call In Overview and Scrutiny Committee.

In his acceptance speech Muhammed Butt said:

“It is an honour to be elected to this position.

I would like to pass my deepest thanks to my predecessor Cllr. Ann John and look forward to her continuing to be deeply involved in the Borough that I know she has loved and served for many years.

These are the toughest financial times in the history of Brent. I want to develop a new approach to the relationship between Councillors and Officers, between front and back benchers and between the Labour Party and our residents. I believe that the more united we are as a Borough the more effective our fight back against this government will be.

I stand for responsibility, fairness and the values of equality that underpin the Labour party and I look forward to beginning the hard work for Brent residents in my new role”.

That should read:

The next meeting of Brent Fightback, the local anti-cuts campaign, is next Monday, 14th May, 7.30 p.m. at Brent Trades Hall, 375 High Road, NW10 2JR.

 

The next meeting of Brent Fightback, the local anti-cuts campaign, is next Monday, 14th May, 7.30 p.m. at Brent Trades Hall, 375 High Road, NW10 2JR.

Among other things, we will be discussing:

* Local campaign against the loss of NHS services;

* Cuts in benefits and how it will affect Brent residents;

* The defence of local education against the spread of Academies and free schools;

* Latest on libraries;

* opposing Brent Council’s plans to restrict the right to leaflet.

All welcome

May 10th Strikes

 Several unions are on strike this coming Thursday (May 10th) against the government’s plans to worsen their pensions. Unite in the NHS, the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), and the University and College Union (UCU) will be taking action locally.

Fightback supporters are being asked by the PCS to show support at the picket lines at the Jobcentres in Wembley (6 St. Johns Rd, HA9 7JD) and Kilburn (3 Cambridge Avenue, NW6 5AH, staff entrance in Coventry Close). There will also be strikers outside the College of North West London sites in Willesden and Wembley and Central Middlesex and Northwick Park Hospitals. If you can get along to show support, it is always welcome.

There is a central London march for strikers and their supporters from St Thomas’s hospital (Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7EH) at 12 noon to Central Hall SW1, followed by a rally in the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster (Storey’s Gate, SW1H 9NH) from 1 p.m.

The next meeting of Brent Fightback is on Monday, 14th May, 7.30 p.m. at the Trades Hall, 375 High Road, NW10 2JR. All are welcome