The TUC: LESE is the Trades Union Congress region that is responsible for London, the east and the south east of England has released its most recent newsletter which covers the Corona Virus outbreak. The see the newsletter click here. It contains information about working and working from home with respect to the virus plus…
Waveney and District Trades Council joined the Extinction Rebellion protest outside the Full Council meeting at Riverside on the 26th February 2020. The protest called for better energy efficiency to be enforced for new planning applications so that Homes are Fit For The Future and also Fit For Today.
Friday 6th December 7:00pm – 9:00pm (door open 6:30pm) Lowestoft Football Club Sonia Barker (Labour) Helen Korfanty (Liberal Democrat) Elfrede Brambley Crawshaw (Green Party) David Brennan (Christian Peoples Alliance) Despite being invited and given alternative dates and times Peter Aldous MP (Conservative) declined to attend. This event is being organised by the Waveney Trades Council…
Friday 20th September from 12:00-13:00 Outside the Britten Centre, Lowestoft High Street Rally in support of the Climate Strike. More information about the local event to follow. For more information about the Climate Strike see https://www.campaigncc.org/climate_strike_20_september There will be a highly visible presence with patches, bags and (hopefully) a pink boat. Share the event on…
Tuesday, 13 August 2019 from 19:30-21:30 United Reform Church, London Road North, Lowestoft Worried about • Climate Change • Plastic Pollution • Loss of WildlifeThis is not a talk about climate change and the environment but an organising meeting about what WE are going to do about it. There will be no main speakers –…
Sunday 1st September 2019 Free transport from Great Yarmouth Gt Yarmouth Troll Cart 8:45 am James Paget Hospital 9:00 am Royal Green Lowestoft 9:30 am Beccles Bus station 9:45 am There is also subsidized transport from Leiston Leiston OldPost office square 9:00 am Saxmundham Old Post Office 9:20 am Bungay Buttermarket Bus Stop 10:00 am…
DOORS OPEN FOR THE FREE FESTIVAL AT 1.00pm 1.45 POLITICAL ADDRESS: GRAHAM WHITE (retiring County Secretary, National Education Union NEU) 2.00 – 3.00 THEATRE: FLIP THE FLOP An afternoon of fun, theatre, games and exploration. GIBBONS & GAULIER present the first ever FLIP THE FLOP REVUE. Expect to see comedy, drama, clown, bouffon, poetry and…
GPs label private care home placements“wrong” Patients have to return to the James Paget Hospital when out-of hospital care fails The site for a North Lowestoft medical centre is inadequate The attempted sale of the Lowestoft Hospital site has fallen through Speakers include Chris Brooks (presentation on the history of Lowestoft Hospital), Bill Adnams…
In 2013 a decision was made to close and sell off Lowestoft Hospital. A public meeting called by the Great Yarmouth and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group overwhelmingly opposed the plan. In a straw poll carried out by Lowestoft Coalition Against the Cuts 190 out of 194 opposed the closure. Nonetheless the plan to replace the…
You may have heard of STPs (Sustainability and Transformation Plans) which aim to integrate health and social care in the Norfolk and Waveney region. When they have finished “planning” we will have an ACO (Accountable Care Organisation) which will hold all the money for the region, limited to a per head total. Cuts of £300m…
About 15 demonstrators gathered outside a little publicised meeting in The Waveney House Hotel, Beccles (7th March) to discuss the future of the NHS, a future which apparently lies as part of new corporate bodies now to be known as ICOs. (Integrated Care Organisations). This astonishingly radical reorganisation aims to bring together a host of…
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) aim to integrate NHS provision (eg NHS hospitals) with social care (funded by County Councils and mainly privatised). This is a massive, complex and costly task imposed on services that are chronically underfunded and understaffed. So why now? Norfolk and Waveney NHS and social care budgets are to be cut by…
The coach leaves from James Paget University Hospital at 7am. Picking up in Lowestoft at 7.30am and one or two stops further south on the A12. For further details and to book a seat, phone / leave a message on 01502 574010.
Resolution To be put to Stop the NHS $windle Meeting, Mon 4th Dec 2017. URC London Road North 1. This meeting condemns the secrecy and the haste with which such a radical and disruptive reform of health and social care, the STP, was conceived only three years after the radical reform of the NHS, the…
