Sustainability in healthcare & NHS reforms
Event date: January 29, 2011 09:00
Tagged as: austerity cuts health privatisation
The Healing Clinic, Club Chambers, Museum St, York. YO1 7DN
Places: york
Medsin Alumni is hosting an event in York to bring Medsin Alumni, Medsin Students and other healthcare professionals to discuss and to form a plan of engagement on two very important issues facing the NHS today: Sustainability in healthcare and the proposed NHS reforms.
The way we operate healthcare puts huge demands on human, financial and ecological resources. The NHS plays no small part in contributing to climate change and the greater ecological crisis. We also risk a bottleneck in healthcare as depleted resources puts a greater strain on the NHS.
As we all have heard, the Coalition Government has decided to press ahead with changes to the NHS for which they do not have a democratic mandate. These proposals are broadly unpopular, and Andrew Lansley knows this. They are wide-reaching, dramatic changes, arguably unnecessary, possibly damaging patient safety and very costly. The changes will allow privatisation in through the back door. How best can we oppose these changes?
As mostly junior doctors across the country, Medsin Alumni has an opportunity to bring like-minded people together in our local areas to address these urgent issues. Medsin, Alma Mata, Medact and other non-medical groups share a lot of cross-over. How are to best share resources, contacts and know-how, to contribute to the growing climate and anti-cuts movements? We will brainstorm and plan for developing local groups to improve our capacity to campaign on health issues.
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Contact email: alumni@medsin.org
Additions are not allowed on this event.
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