Save CRH Outcome was that the Council & CCG voted NOT to extend HCRG's 7 yr contract to 10 yrs but then extended it for 1 yr to 2025 to allow options appraisal/new procurement process. Bath, Swindon & Wilts ICB now doing the procurement but 'commercial confidentiality' limits public info

Pretty much the whole Western political establishment has spent 6 months brazenly backing the mass murder of children.

The effect on global consciousness will be profound and permanent.

There is no way back from this, no matter how much money they throw at their think-tanks.

free access, bmj
why the fuss about PAs?
bmj.com/content/385/bm…

Feels like it hasn't received as much attention as last year, but ambulance handovers were more delayed than ever this winter

28.7% of ambulances that arrived at hospitals waited >30 minutes, up from 24.8% in 2022/23

More also waited >60 mins: 11.2% up from 10.3%

Tower Hamlets KONP 💙 HCRG's owner, private equity firm Twenty20 Capital, has form in keeping their deals secret from commissioners - acquired Virgin Care (HCRG), provider of community healthcare in Bath & NE Somerset, in 2021 without telling commissioners or its own staff until 3 weeks later!

Thank you for covering this and thank you to all who shared their experiences. In a retention crisis we need to value staff

Save CRH twitter.com/ProtectourNHS/…

Save CRH NHS North East London Yes, Twenty20 Capital has form in this sphere - acquired Virgin Care (HCRG) in Bath & NE Somerset in 2021, so our community health & care services passed into ownership of a private equity firm ... without the commissioners or staff being informed until 3 wks after deal was done!

Save CRH AT Medics part of the Operose Health Group Operose Health Do u know if Virgincare sought the required permission to transfer community services to HCRG Care Group & Twenty20 capital in West Lancs?
Is it Cheshire & Merseyside Health & Care Partnership or LSC Integrated Care Partnership who should have given/applied for it?

virgin.com/about-virgin/v…

A recruitment pause and pause on new investment at OUH to tackle a £53m deficit. Not by any means a unique position...

Sustained train delays/cancellations, slashed timetables, overcrowding, fare hikes, poor customer service prompt calls for nationalisation.

In the last decade alone rail companies received £75bn subsidy.

Privatisation has failed. Time to end the scam.
archive.ph/2024.04.15-052…

Labour's Wes Streeting takes £175k from donors linked to private health firms thenational.scot/news/24250557.…

Ooh looks good

Ed Miliband Jen Craft This is from the Govt's REUL (Retained EU Law report published in January 2024.
'Most notably we have revoked the unnecessary Port Services Regulations which were designed for the EU’s publicly owned ports and were unsuited to the UK economy'.
Are people aware that +600 UK/EU…

We face a Labour meltdown after the election taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/1… Without any apparent plan for government, or the slightest hint of any guiding principles, Labour looks as if it will be totally rudderless on the day it, almost inevitably, reaches office. This might be…

This was 2023 but nothing has improved since.
Ros Atkins BBC looked at NHS funding since 2000 & compared UK healthcare spending with the richest EU members. And then looked at how funding connects to the current NHS crisis.
5 mins on what was found.