Consultation News

Thousands of campaigners are expected to march this weekend against cuts to hospital services in east Kent. East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has been widely criticised in recent weeks after announcing stroke patients will temporarily not be taken to Kent & Canterbury but instead to other hospitals in Ashford and Margate. It followed […]

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People power has scored a major victory after planners scrapped a move for a second biomass plant to be built in a Fife town. The decision to throw out the controversial planning application follows an unprecedented wave of public objection to plans for a 19.8MW Biomass plant that would have been sited on land owned

Sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) are fundamentally flawed and an attempt to dismantle the NHS, GP leaders warned at last week’s LMC conference in Edinburgh. A strongly-worded motion backed by LMC leaders last week set out a series of reasons why STPs were ‘fundamentally flawed’. GP representatives agreed that the process was run by ‘undemocratically

This article was originally published by Matthew D’Ancona on The New European ‘People in this country have had enough of experts’: the assertion was striking not only because of its audacity, but because of the person making it. Michael Gove, the then Justice Secretary, was one of the most intellectual members of David Cameron’s Cabinet,

Hundreds of people joined a march through Southend to protest against proposals that could see Southend Hospital’s emergency department downgraded. Campaign group Save Southend A&E, which describes itself as non-political, organised the protest along High Street on Saturday, May 20. It comes in response to The Mid and South Essex Success Regime’s Sustainability and Transformation

Campaigners have called for the consultation on the closure of Chiltern Edge School to be shut down. The school in Sonning Common has been threatened with closure after it was placed in special measures due to an “inadequate” Ofsted report in April. The calls follow a meeting between Oxfordshire County Council and Reading Borough Council at county

The Green Party has pledged to scrap Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) among key policies on the NHS and wider public services set out in its election manifesto. As part of efforts to ensure public services are “run by the people for the people”, the party said it would bring in new legislation to protect

Plans to relocate the branch to the far end of the village have been scrapped following a public consultation Intense public pressure in Staplehurst has forced the Post Office to U-turn on its plans to relocate the branch. Proposals were announced earlier this year to move the branch from its current position in the Hight

Fears have been voiced for the welfare of some of the most vulnerable residents in north Norfolk if health chiefs push ahead with plans to remove beds from a local healthcare unit. Norfolk Coalition Against the Cuts staged a roadside demonstration outside Benjamin Court in Cromer on Monday ahead of a petition against the proposals