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Thousands sign petition against privatising NHS in Croydon
A petition with signatures from more than a thousand residents seeking the protection of Croydon NHS services from the worst effects of privatisation was being presented this morning to Dr Tony Brzezicki, the joint chair of the new Croydon Commissioning … Continue reading
Posted in Health, London-wide issues, Maggie Mansell, Mayday Hospital, St Helier Hospital
Tagged Councillor, Croydon, Labour, Labour Council, London, Petition, Private sector, South Croydon
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Mayday! Croydon hospital on CQC’s staffing danger list
The NHS safe in their hands? So this is how the coalition works: in the General Election the Conservatives promise “no top-down re-organisation” of the NHS. Having failed to win the election, the Tory-led government then pushes forward plans for … Continue reading
Stonecot by-election offers LibDems chance of cheer
A local judgement on Gideon Osborne’s Autumn Statement will come tomorrow in Stonecot ward in Sutton, as they go to the polls in a by-election to replace an outgoing LibDem councillor. The Osborne Budget in the spring brought a litany … Continue reading
Election questions: Marisha Ray, Liberal Democrats
The Croydon North by-election is on November 29, and Inside Croydon has put to candidates a set of questions. We will be putting the responses on the record, published without the artifice, interruptions and grandstanding of the usual hustings. We … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 by-election, Boris Johnson, Croydon North, CSEP, Education, Health, Housing, Libraries, London Road Traders Association, Marisha Ray, Mayor of London, Paul Burstow MP, St Helier Hospital, Tom Brake MP, Transport
Tagged Caroline Pidgeon, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon North, Labour, Liberal Democrat, London, Upper Norwood Library
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A musical evening of NHS protest at Ruskin House
Thornton Heath councillor Pat Clouder has urged residents to join an evening of politics and musical entertainment at Ruskin House this Saturday to protest against dangers to the NHS posed by the government’s shake-up of the health service and against … Continue reading
NHS executive threatens scrutiny body over £23m ‘lost’ funds
So, a public body “loses” tens of millions, yet no one is responsible? ANDREW PELLING attended the latest session of the south-west London NHS scrutiny committee Lawyers, paid for out of precious NHS funds, have been hired by senior health … Continue reading
Sutton shows its neighbours the power of volunteering
With Croydon Council failing to back any local summer fairs or concerts, ANDREW PELLING joined thousands of other residents from the borough at yesterday’s environmental fair in Carshalton Croydon used to be blessed with large community events in its parks, … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Charity, Church and religions, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Education, Environment, Gardening, Health, Jon Rouse, Music, Outside Croydon, Paul Burstow MP, Richard Ottaway MP, Sara Bashford, Selsdon & Ballards, St Helier Hospital, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Walks, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Cancer Research UK, Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, Sutton
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Krugman or Gideon: who’d you trust to get economics right?
It is a simple choice: at a time of the deepest global economic crisis the world has faced, possibly even worse that the Great Depression of the 1930s, whose advice would you take? Would you trust the judgement of two … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Centrale, Health, History, Housing, Libraries, Outside Croydon, Schools, St Helier Hospital
Tagged Britain, Great Depression, Irving Fisher, John Maynard Keynes, Krugman, New York Times, Paul Krugman, United States
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