November - 2016

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Telegraph Hill Ward

Sleep walking into full NHS privatisation, from Accountable Care Organisations, Sustainable Transfor

Sleep walking into full NHS privatisation, from Accountable Care Organisations, Sustainable Transfor

Today I attended the London Councils Summit at the Guild Hall. It is the first time I've been to such an event. One of the meetings in the afternoon was about health and social care. With Sustainable Transformation Partnerships (STP) being so topical, I thought we'd dwell on them for the entire hour. Not to be. The first speaker, leader of the London Borough of Redbridge told us about how the London boroughs of Redbridge, Barnet & Dagenham and Havering were forming an Account

My speech to Lewisham Full Council opposing the STP, full public disclosure

My speech to Lewisham Full Council opposing the STP, full public disclosure

Here is the reality The NHS and free health care is about to be taken from us The Sustainable Transformation Partnership (STP) is yet another nail in the coffin with a £1bn cut disguised under the lies of "Our Healthier South East London". They will use accountants rather than clinicians to judge whether the NHS is a success on unrealistic expectations with "upper quartile performance" which is code for impossible targets to dismantle, fragment and replace with Virgin Care an

My speech to the Co-op Party Councillors Conference, on social care

My speech to the Co-op Party Councillors Conference, on social care

I am also a Labour councillor and a co-op party member. I am going to talk about the following: What are the current issues in adult social care UNISON’s experience of organising in this sector and the Ethical Care Charter Links between the charter and co-operative values But I want to begin by spending some time going over the results of UNISON’s Suffering Alone at Home report which was released in January with a focus on the lack of time in our homecare system because I bel