North Cornwall Labour Party

10th April 2019 By Julia Penhaligon The Minor Injuries Unit at Bude-Stratton hospital will remain closed overnight until at least October, the local Community Network Panel heard this week. The MIU closed suddenly in December as a “temporary” measure, with Cornwall’s health bosses claiming staff shortages were to blame. The Cornwall Partnership Foundation Trust initially promised it would return to a 24-hour service by February, but triggered further concern by then shifting its assessment of Bude’s needs, claiming that an…

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By Julia Penhaligon Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn will today (Monday) try to slow the “Kennally Care” takeover of Cornwall’s NHS, with an obscure Parliamentary tactic designed to halt the national roll-out of Integrated Care Provider contracts. The government is attempting to break-up the NHS into small, local contracting units previously known as Accountable Care Organisations.  It is doing this without Parliamentary scrutiny and has introduced a Statutory Instrument (known as SI 248) intended to amend the way GPs are contracted to…

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Cornwall’s Disintegrating Care Partnership – the wheels start to fall off Kennally Care, as even the Liberal Democrats start to talk about Section 30 referrals Posted By Julia Penhaligon on 27th February 2019 The impact of the advancing “Kennally Care” project to take over Cornwall’s NHS will come under renewed scrutiny next month as a result of the loss of a high-profile mental health service which suggests the future is more about the disintegration of health and social care, rather than working closer together….

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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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