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Tag Archives: Croydon NHS CCG
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difficulties of bringing up babies with allergies which made them dependent on being fed formula milk which is being withdrawn by the NHS in Croydon to save a … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon NHS CCG, NHS Croydon CCG, Tory
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Mayday taken out of special measures, but more cuts to come
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, the body responsible for Mayday and Purley Hospitals, has been taken out of financial special measures, it was announced yesterday. According to the press release issued last night by the Croydon NHS Trust, it has … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon NHS CCG, Croydon NHS Trust, Mayday Hospital
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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
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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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Local charities carrying burden as NHS fails asylum seekers
Asylum seekers are being left behind in using health services, because their greatest need is just surviving the day, rather than health issues, according to a report from Healthwatch Croydon. The report – Refugees and Asylum Seekers: The health and … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon Council, Health, Healthwatch Croydon
Tagged Croydon Healthwatch, Croydon NHS CCG, Lunar House
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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
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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
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Fiddling the figures won’t help to save our NHS
CROYDON COMMENTARY: NHS bureaucrats try to deny that they are planning significant closures to south London’s hospitals, while working on a plan which offers two ‘hypotheses’, neither of which include maintaining all five of the current sites. Here ANDY FORD, … Continue reading
Purley NHS women’s centre to close: now you can have a ‘say’
JAMES KILLDARE, our health correspondent, on the latest step towards the privatisation of health service provision through the erosive withdrawal of NHS services Having already made the decision to close the women’s mental health facility at Foxley Lane as part … Continue reading
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Croydon’s GPs are offering protection against the flu
Croydon’s local doctors are encouraging their patients to have a jab to protect themselves against the flu this winter. “Flu is a very infectious disease with symptoms that can come on very quickly, and is most prevalent during the colder … Continue reading
Healthwatch Croydon’s CEO to leave post after 18 months
Charlie Ladyman is to step down as chief executive of Healthwatch Croydon, after just 18 months in the post. Healthwatch Croydon is the body which represents NHS patients and users of social care in the borough, dealing with those who … Continue reading
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Croydon GPs criticised for failure to return vital diabetes data
Croydon’s NHS GPs have an “unacceptably low” number of practices collecting and supplying data about patents’ diabetes checks, according to a national charity. The charity, Diabetes UK, is urging Croydon’s NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), to ensure that they all … Continue reading
IVF treatment may be withdrawn in Croydon in NHS cuts
IVF treatment could be withdrawn from health services in Croydon as one cut-back to balance the books of the under pressure local clinical commissioning group (CCG), was yesterday placed under “special measures” by Jeremy Hunt’s [sic] Department of Health. As … Continue reading
NHS patient and public involvement forum, Jul 6
The next NHS Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group Patient and Public Involvement Forum on Wednesday July 6. The Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Forum is an opportunity for NHS Croydon CCG to share ideas with the public and learn from residents’ … Continue reading
Watchdog is seeking volunteers to check on health services
Healthwatch Croydon, the official consumer group for local health and social care services, is seeking volunteers. They say, “We make a difference to health and social care services in the borough by receiving the views of residents, analysing the comments … Continue reading
Capital’s cost of living leaves London short of 10,000 nurses
London’s NHS nursing shortage has got significantly worse in the past year, with more than 10,000 unfilled posts in the capital’s health trusts in 2015, according to figures published today by the Royal College of Nursing. The impact on patients … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon CCG, Health, Mayday Hospital, Purley Hospital
Tagged Croydon NHS, Croydon NHS CCG, Mayday Hospital, Purley Hospital
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Croydon NHS urgent care service review, public meetings
NHS Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) plans and buys most health services in Croydon. The current contracts for urgent care services end in March 2017, which means that they have started reprocurement for these services. The CCG needs to make … Continue reading
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Croydon NHS Public Involvement Forum, Fairfield Halls, Sep 23
Everyone needs urgent care and fast treatment when they feel really unwell, or have a serious illness. Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group is developing proposals to improve health services in Croydon which deliver this important care such as the Walk In … Continue reading
