Shire Hill Decision : On Tuesday afternoon, I visited Dukinfield Town Hall to attend a meeting of Tameside Council’s Strategic Commissioning board, one of the committees effectively established as part of the Devo Manchester works, which will effectively see Tameside Council assume responsibility for and in time consume the various health bodies (Clinical Commissioning Group […]
Save Shire Hill Hospital Motion : This time last week, after attending the Gamesley Christmas Market, I was in Buxton for the final full council meeting of the year. You can see the details for the full agenda by clicking here, with a particular note of interest been agenda item 9 the motion on the […]
At a meeting of the Tameside and Glossop Clinical Commissioning Group’s single commissioning board that took place yesterday (22nd August), the board agreed to start a consultation for 12 weeks on the arrangements for ‘Intermediate Care in Tameside and Glossop” You can read the paper that board considered by clicking here along with appendixes mentioned […]
Manor House / Healthwatch Derbyshire – Doctors’ Appointments : If you, like me you are a former patient or Dr Parikh or just one of the many other Glossopians at Manor House Surgery in either Glossop or Hadfield, changes are coming to the way you will book an appointment in the future. In a post […]
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust are the health body that provide mental health services to people living in Glossop. They provide a range of services for people who have serious mental illness such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, as well as those that have more common mental health problems including depression, anxiety and dementia. On […]
A well put together video by my union Unite, highlighting a national demo which will take place outside the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester on Sunday 29th September. To get further details on the campaign or the demo goto : http://www.unitetheunion.org/saveournhs
From the 1st April this year, ‘public health’ will return to local government, as it once was in years gone, and to some extent at least in Victorian time the very reason for local government to exist in the first place, with those early works to stop the spread of diseases such as cholera by […]
On Wednesday 6th February in the Edale Crescent area, a range of local services will be available to local residents in a way not tried before with the services coming to you on your doorstep. It’s an initiative from the Gamesley Financial Inclusion Partnership which will see the council’s e-bus (a mobile customer services setup) hosting representatives […]
On Friday, along with various other councillors’ from across the country, (including former local county councillor John Bull) I was in Manchester at the Unison Office to attend a rally for the ‘NHS pledge’ – a five-point practical attempt to limit the damage of the NHS reorganisation. The event was encouraging councillors to act as […]
The Ambulance Service in both Glossopdale and the High Peak is under threat, the East Midlands Ambulance Service due to the cuts and the North West Ambulance Service because of the ‘privatisation’ agenda of the current Government. Although on the face of it, the East Midlands Ambulance Service changes won’t affect folk in Glossopdale as […]