Sheff Save Our NHS

A grassroots movement comprising people from all walks of life affected by cuts to NHS services. Standing for free, universal, public healthcare.

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My warning to Health Sec on £571m funding gap. Read more: https://t.co/ULMoj3IGpb @SheffSaveOurNHS @unisontweets @theRCN @MidwivesRCM

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#Sheffield #dementia services facing closure due to funding shortages: https://t.co/MHqsGVEPig

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Save #Sheffield dementia respite services at Hurlfield View - sign the @38_degrees petition https://t.co/SzKnetxY8j

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Join local support groups to #savethenhs

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Privatisation will come if we don't stop certain types of trade treaties like ttip #savethenhs

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What cost is the lowest tender competition doing to how we value the NHS #savethenhs

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Response: charging patients not best way of reducing missed appointments, shifts problems

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Question about responsibility of employers, should we ask more from our employers providing health care #savethenhs

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Get rid of purchaser/provider and just be people working together #savethenhs

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Discussion how to save the NHS @ quaker meeting house

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Tim Moorhead: @SheffieldCCG avoids compettive tendering where possible as a waste of time, effort, willpower - but often hands are tied

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John C provides an international perspective: entrenched class ideology in UK reflected in purchaser/provider interactions. In#NHS too?

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Comment from floor: is prevention anything to do with the #NHS? Health services are just inheritors of failed social policy...

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Comment from floor: do we need people to take more responsibility for their wn health? (And do social pressures prevent this?)

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Kirsten M reminds us: admin is vital to #NHS care, frontline services would be useful without it! But is market-related admin adding much?

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Tim Moorhead states @SheffieldCCG requires strict division between service providers, but they want to break down these barriers

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What are costs of #NHS privatisation/marketisation? One economist's estimate - £9 bilion every year. And what value to patients..?

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Onto questions from the floor: @SheffieldStar asks - is there a #NHS funding crisis in #Sheffield and how will this develop to 2020?

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How to support #NHS staff: learn from @MichaelMarmot - limit demand, provide support, increase control

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3rd: adapt and improve. Why does #NHS find change so difficult? Contradictory demands; paralysis by anxiety