Save Hinchingbrooke Hospital

Well, it's been a few days since my last post, I have been really busy.
I was asked to organise a Rally/March for the Trade Unions at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, and also
there have been meetings to attend on behalf of these bodies too.
The Rally/March is going ahead and it starts at 11:00 on the 17th March 07, with speeches by
activists at 11:30 followed by a march to the hospital at 12:00
I was asked by the Police to restrict this event to Activists of all Trade Unions and we are basing this on the MHS Together framewaork, but the Police asked me to consider a Community March.

So the result of this is that I have one organised

The date is..................28th April 2007

The time...............meet at 11:00

Speeches ....................11:30

Marching starts..........12:00

This is being organised to allow the People of Cambridgeshire to have been to the Public Consultations and seen the Consultation document and hopefully digested and picked
out the flaws contained within.
The real deal is 99.9% services retained (by using consultants who network between hospitals)

25% cut in activity (38,500 proceedures/patients not seen)

20% job losses (400 staff)

Now the spin says that the patients/proceedures will be done in the community, but in reality
with the commisioning projections and the policy not to treat certain problems, it realy means that these won't be done at all and no community provision will be in place

The spin for Job losses is there will be no redundancies just Natural wastage, I'm sure there are not 400 staff members who will be retiring ot leaving their job in the next 2 years, what it
really says is we have no redundancy budget, so we will over work the current staff till they leave and then we should have the master plan in place for the staff that are left.

SO THE PUBLIC NEED TO HAVE THEIR SAY..........................
TELL THE PCT TO STOP CUTTING SERVICES AND LOBBY FOR THE RIGHT LEVEL
OF FUNDING..................WE CURRENTLY GET £1000 PER PERSON YET CAMDEN GET'S
£2000 PER PERSON..................AND UNFAIR SYSTEM THAT NEEDS A LEVEL PLAYING
FIELD, IF WE MANAGE OUR BUDGETS THEN WE CAN INVEST IN FUTURE HEALTHCARE OR OTHER AREAS AS SPECIALIST TREATMENTS, NOT MAKE THE PATIENTS AROUND HERE SUFFER BECAUSE THE CASH ISN'T AVAILABLE

SO.................... 28TH ARPRIL 07 IS ON...............