No to fire-sale of NHS sites
https://keepournhspublic.com www.nhsbillnow.org
SALE - NHS Land and Buildings GOING CHEAP
NHS land and buildings belong to us. Don't let this Government get away with selling them to property developers then forcing the NHS to rent new privately owned buildings!
The Government plans to underfund the NHS by £26billion a year by 2021 compared with 2015 levels. The main way it will do this is through closing local hospitals, GP surgeries and community buildings, selling these sites & replacing them with far fewer, larger hospitals and ‘community hub’ clinics – meaning long distances and travelling times for patients.
The 2017 Naylor Report proposes selling up to £5.7billion-worth of NHS land and buildings. Property developers will handle sales – and share the receipts. As well
as empty sites, the Government plans to sell ‘inefficiently used’ buildings. An arbitrary definition of ‘efficiency’, based on space allocated to clinical services, means facilities for patients & visitors or even extra wide corridors can be used to justify closure.
Government says new and larger premises, ‘community hubs’, are needed for specialist services – but long journeys are costly, difficult and affect health.
Most GP & community services can
be delivered effectively, much more conveniently for patients, in local services.
Local government is promised new
land for housing, and many councils
are jumping at the chance – even though the new housing will be unaffordable to NHS staff and most people, and private developers already hold much unused land.
Property developers will build the new ‘hubs’, saddling the NHS with decades- long extortionate repayments. Huge profits will be syphoned off by developers as in previous, exorbitantly expensive PFIs and Public Private Partnership deals. Plans for NHS sites and buildings
are being developed in secret by corporate consultants. There has been no meaningful public engagement in developing plans or consultation on changes to services and sites.
•Plans must set out implications for changes to patient journeys, including cost and travel options for patients throughout the area, and must take account of specific needs of vulnerable people, those with mobility impairments, young children etc.
•Current and future need for new NHS facilities must be considered first, followed by potential use for other public services. Creation of a local land-bank of publicly- owned sites.
•No sale of any NHS land or buildings without full consultation & public consent.
•Local authorities to oppose sell-offs that don’t comply with above, including through refusing planning permission.
We demand
•Meaningful engagement and full consultation with local clinicians and public in the development of local NHS and social care plans, including all proposals for site changes.
What else you can do:
•Join Keep Our NHS Public and campaign with a local group
•Find out what’s happening locally about NHS sites
•
•on their actions to save the NHS
Write to your NHS Trust, CCG, MP
and local councillors, especially those responsible for health and social care, wellbeing, planning decisions and scrutiny committees, demanding action. Make sure they know your vote depends
Keep your local paper informed
https://keepournhspublic.com #keepournhspublic
https://keepournhspublic.com www.nhsbillnow.org
SALE - NHS Land and Buildings GOING CHEAP
NHS land and buildings belong to us. Don't let this Government get away with selling them to property developers then forcing the NHS to rent new privately owned buildings!
The Government plans to underfund the NHS by £26billion a year by 2021 compared with 2015 levels. The main way it will do this is through closing local hospitals, GP surgeries and community buildings, selling these sites & replacing them with far fewer, larger hospitals and ‘community hub’ clinics – meaning long distances and travelling times for patients.
The 2017 Naylor Report proposes selling up to £5.7billion-worth of NHS land and buildings. Property developers will handle sales – and share the receipts. As well
as empty sites, the Government plans to sell ‘inefficiently used’ buildings. An arbitrary definition of ‘efficiency’, based on space allocated to clinical services, means facilities for patients & visitors or even extra wide corridors can be used to justify closure.
Government says new and larger premises, ‘community hubs’, are needed for specialist services – but long journeys are costly, difficult and affect health.
Most GP & community services can
be delivered effectively, much more conveniently for patients, in local services.
Local government is promised new
land for housing, and many councils
are jumping at the chance – even though the new housing will be unaffordable to NHS staff and most people, and private developers already hold much unused land.
Property developers will build the new ‘hubs’, saddling the NHS with decades- long extortionate repayments. Huge profits will be syphoned off by developers as in previous, exorbitantly expensive PFIs and Public Private Partnership deals. Plans for NHS sites and buildings
are being developed in secret by corporate consultants. There has been no meaningful public engagement in developing plans or consultation on changes to services and sites.
•Plans must set out implications for changes to patient journeys, including cost and travel options for patients throughout the area, and must take account of specific needs of vulnerable people, those with mobility impairments, young children etc.
•Current and future need for new NHS facilities must be considered first, followed by potential use for other public services. Creation of a local land-bank of publicly- owned sites.
•No sale of any NHS land or buildings without full consultation & public consent.
•Local authorities to oppose sell-offs that don’t comply with above, including through refusing planning permission.
We demand
•Meaningful engagement and full consultation with local clinicians and public in the development of local NHS and social care plans, including all proposals for site changes.
What else you can do:
•Join Keep Our NHS Public and campaign with a local group
•Find out what’s happening locally about NHS sites
•
•on their actions to save the NHS
Write to your NHS Trust, CCG, MP
and local councillors, especially those responsible for health and social care, wellbeing, planning decisions and scrutiny committees, demanding action. Make sure they know your vote depends
Keep your local paper informed
https://keepournhspublic.com #keepournhspublic