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Category Archives: Croydon CCG
Sutton GPs denied vital information about secret killer PTHP
The postcode lottery in the health service is putting lives at risk here in south London, with an estimated 400 people in Sutton affected every year Everyone knows about bowel cancer and cervical cancer. They are common enough to be … Continue reading
Sanderstead Clinic facing closure in latest NHS cut-backs
Our health correspondent ALAN FINLAY reports on the threat of closure of an NHS facility, right under the nose of the local Conservative MP There’s another round of cuts in services, closures and re-organisations coming to the NHS in Croydon … Continue reading
Croydon NHS say they’re ‘saving’ £20m by denying treatments
Our health correspondent, ALAN FINLAY, on the latest cuts by stealth being implements in the NHS in Croydon, and across the country Croydon NHS is saving £20million a year through what they call “demand management”. To most reasonable people, it … Continue reading
Mayday Hospital is already operating at 100% capacity
Our health correspondent, ALAN FINLAY, on the latest emerging crisis at the borough’s largest hospital, where there can be four-hour waits for emergency beds Mayday Hospital is already been operating at more than 100 per cent capacity for bed use, … Continue reading
GPs told not to prescribe for colic, diarrhoea or threadworms
A senior Town Hall figure says that he is “appalled” that Croydon’s NHS has asked the borough’s doctors to stop giving prescriptions for minor ailments. The move follows guidance from NHS England on those health conditions that should now be … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Pelling, Croydon NHS, Croydon NHS CCG, Dr Agnelo Fernandes
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Mayday drops blue badge charges after Inside Croydon report
Our transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, on a rapid U-turn in the hospital car park Just days after Inside Croydon highlighted how the management at Mayday Hospital had slapped parking charges on holders of blue badges, they have now slammed on … Continue reading
GPs need to do more to help health of homeless, says report
Croydon’s family doctors need to do more to help the homeless, according to report published this week by Healthwatch Croydon. The study, Experiences of Homeless People Using Health Services, recorded the experiences of homeless people who were referred by the … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon CCG, Evolve, Health, Healthwatch Croydon
Tagged Croydon Healthwatch, NHS Croydon CCG
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81% BME carers given inadequate advice by GPs, report finds
Croydon’s family doctors need to recognise the roles of black and Asian carers and support them more by referring them to relevant services, according to research published today by Healthwatch Croydon. Among its findings, the Healthwatch report found that fewer … Continue reading
Charity volunteers reach out to shoppers about risk of diabetes
Volunteers from the Croydon branch of Diabetes UK and from the borough’s Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Forum, supported by funds from NHS Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group, have been telling people about the real risks of contracting diabetes and steps … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon BME Forum, Diabetes, Surrey Street Market
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Mental health workshop, St John’s Upper Norwood, Oct 17
Posted in Age UK Croydon, Charity, Croydon CCG, Health
Tagged Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, NHS Croydon CCG
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Swann song for NHS chief who has departed unannounced
Paula Swann has been replaced as the chief executive of the Croydon NHS Clinical Commissioning Group, the CCG. No official announcement has been made from the CCG’s offices in Fisher’s Folly, the council headquarters, although a member of staff this … Continue reading
Posted in Bernard Weatherill House, Croydon CCG, Croydon Council, Health
Tagged Croydon, Croydon NHS CCG, Dr Tony Brzezicki, Paula Swann
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‘We need to create a climate of kindness and understanding’
The council, together with the Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), are supporting Dementia Awareness Week, which begins today, by asking residents and their employees to sign-up to the Dementia Friends initiative at http://www.dementiafriends.org.uk. The week’s activities are organised by the … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon CCG, Health, Rachel Flowers
Tagged Alzheimer's Society, Croydon NHS CCG, NHS Croydon CCG
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Under-threat St Helier only London hospital to hit A&E target
St Helier was the only NHS hospital trust in the capital with an accident and emergency department which actually met its waiting time targets, according to the most recent data available. St Helier, of course, is under constant threat of … Continue reading
Croydon’s cuts to IVF treatment are not fair and are not NICE
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Three-quarters of those who responded to a recent consultation on local health services said that fertility treatment should be offered on the NHS. Then the NHS bean-counters, who had failed to review the service for eight years, announced … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon CCG, Croydon Council, Health, Kirstie Smith, Mayday Hospital
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon NHS, Croydon NHS CCG, Tory
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Council hands Hunt final decision over cuts to IVF treatment
The Council’s health and social care scrutiny committee has thrown a curve ball to the Tory government over cuts in NHS provision by referring the decision to end the provision of IVF fertility treatment in Croydon to Jeremy Hunt, the … Continue reading
NHS milk-snatchers are opening the way for more GP cuts
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Earlier this year, a mother wrote of the hardships and difficulties of bringing up babies with allergies which made them dependent on being fed formula milk which is being withdrawn by the NHS in Croydon to save a … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon CCG, Health, Rachel Flowers
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon NHS CCG, NHS Croydon CCG, Tory
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FBI comes to Croydon to learn how to help with FGM
The FBI has come to Croydon. The G-men and women visited Croydon to learn from the borough’s NHS-backed Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) project team to protect girls who are risk and improve the psychological and physical health outcomes for those … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon CCG, Health, Policing
Tagged Croydon NHS CCG, FBI, Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, NHS Croydon CCG
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It’s official: NHS Croydon withdraws milk of human kindness
JAMES KILLDARE, our health correspondent, on how the NHS’s bean-counters in Croydon are refusing to yield to public pressure The NHS’s decision to stop prescribing formula milk to nursing mothers of babies who are allergic to cows’ milk has prompted … Continue reading
Taking the milk from babies is an NHS cut too far
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Our under-funded NHS has chosen to make cuts which will adversely affect women, as KIRSTIE SMITH, pictured, knows very well from her own experience The decision of Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group, or CCG, to stop prescribing specialist baby … Continue reading
NHS cuts prescribed baby milk and closes women’s refuge
NHS chiefs in Croydon confirmed last night that they are going ahead with another £30million-worth of cuts to local services, meaning that local GPs will no longer be able to prescribe gluten-free products, vitamin D for maintenance, self-care medications and … Continue reading
NHS watchdog has ‘crucial role’ to play over STP reform
In what may turn out to be one of its final acts as a publicly funded watchdog for NHS patients in the borough, Healthwatch Croydon has made a call for it to keep a close check on the latest round … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon NHS CCG, Healthwatch Croydon
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Hundreds sign up to petition to save Foxley Lane
A petition has been launched calling for the Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group to drop its plans to close the Foxley Lane women’s mental health respite centre. The online petition has already attracted more than 500 signatures in just a few … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon CCG, Foxley Lane, Health, Purley
Tagged Croydon NHS CCG, Foxley Lane, NHS Croydon CCG, Purley
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Please don’t close Foxley Lane. It saves women’s lives
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Officials in charge of the NHS locally are proposing a range of cuts to services, including the closure of a women’s mental health refuge at Foxley Lane. TANYA McMURRAY, pictured right, says they would be wrong to do … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon CCG, Foxley Lane, Health, Purley
Tagged Croydon NHS CCG, Foxley Lane, NHS Croydon CCG, Purley
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