North Cornwall Labour Party

Posted 8th February 2019 By Graham Smith The sale of Cornwall’s community health facilities is expected to bag £11.17 million, according to NHS England.  The sites will be used to build 206 houses. The cash which will stay in Cornwall, however, is nearly £400,000 less than the market value.  Whitehall plans to keep the surplus. NHS Kernow, however, is still refusing to publish full details of the sales, as it has yet to start a public consultation procedure over the…

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Inside Kennally Care: details start to emerge of how charities and companies are now taking over Cornwall’s health service – with orders to cut spending Posted 8th February 2019 Historians will eventually decide if this was a revolution or a coup.  It was certainly not announced.  But 23rd January is a date which deserves to be recognised as the moment the National Health Service in Cornwall was yanked into a brave new world of “place-based care” which at its heart relies…

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Today’s publication follows three phases of public consultation and draws new boundaries for each council division across Cornwall. The Commission’s final recommendations propose that Cornwall should be represented by 87 councillors in the future: 36 fewer than the current arrangement. The recommendations also propose that those councillors should represent 87 one-councillor divisions across Cornwall. Professor Colin Mellors, Chair of the Commission, said, “We are extremely grateful to people across Cornwall who took part in the review. The Commission has looked…

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19th November 2018 By Graham Smith A clear majority of Cornwall’s MPs appear set to vote against Theresa May’s proposed Brexit deal.  It is less clear if they have also called on Mrs May to resign. All six of Cornwall’s MPs are Conservatives and at least four of them have now declared their opposition to the proposed deal.  The alternatives, assuming that the Prime Minister survives any attempts to unseat her as leader of the Tory Party, are (at the…

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19th November 2018 By Graham Smith A legal challenge to Accountable Care Organisations – which many see as an existential threat to the National Health Service – is set for a crucial week.  The outcome of the case will determine whether Cornwall Council’s “Kennally Care” project, which seeks to centralise strategic health commissioning at County Hall, makes further progress. The Court of Appeal is due to hear a case brought by the campaign group 999 Call for the NHS tomorrow…

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To all North Cornwall Labour Members Next Tuesday evening, 30th October and the following Tuesday evening, 6th November we have joined with TEX https://texwithbenefits.com/ to make some dignity bags for the food bank. We are intending that each volunteer makes a bag appropriate for either a male or female and between now and the 14th December we will fill them up with personal items to take to the food bank as our contribution to the homeless for Christmas. The sessions will…

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18th October 2018 By Graham Smith Cornwall’s social workers are reeling this morning (Thursday) from news that their leadership team at County Hall is to leave. The three most senior figures in the Children’s Services department – Trevor Doughty, Jack Cordery and Jane Black – will all leave Cornwall Council next year.  All three are highly regarded in their sector and are credited with having rescued a service which had been previously been condemned as “inadequate” and which had been…

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The Kennally Care project to restructure Cornwall’s health service approaches a “gateway” – with lawyers and politicians in close attendance 8th October 2018 By Graham Smith Cornwall’s health and social care chiefs are preparing to pass through the first of their self-defined “gateways” to embrace a radical restructure of the National Health Service, putting County Hall in charge of strategic commissioning and paving the way for the possibility of greatly increased privatisation. The tortuous creation of what is now called…

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  by North Cornwall Delegate, Ray Shemilt. Before getting on to my main report I am going to say a few words with reference to my Labour Journey so far: Back in June 2015, I re-joined the party to support Jeremy Corbyn’s candidacy for leadership. I had resigned in 2003 following TB’s invasion of Iraq and standing with my fellow comrades, including of course Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, on that massive “Stop the War” march in February 2003. The…

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