No A&E CUTS IN CALDERDALE & HUDDERSFIELD

We don!t NEED any cuts to Calderdale and Hudderseld A&E departments. Calderdale A&E is doing ne by its patients. The Emergency Care Intensive Support Team has just reported positively on Calderdale and Hudderseld A&E departments. We don!t WANT to travel extra miles for accident and emergency care, when lives are at risk and transport costs are sky high. This isn!t just about closing Calderdale A&E.

THE PROPOSALS ARE ABOUT DISMANTLING HOSPITAL SERVICES IN CALDERDALE AND GREATER HUDDERSFIELD Hospital services across the board will be reduced. Patients will have to pick up the slack, in a new model of community health and social care services. The community health and social care services would support people to take maximum responsibility for their own care and wellbeing. (The quotes are from an ofcial letter in answer to questions we have raised.) These community based services would be run by the area!s two NHS trusts and Locala (a company that provides community health care in Kirklees), together with GPs and social care and voluntary organisations. OUR NHS IS ACTING IN SECRECY, AS BUSINESSES INSTEAD OF A PUBLIC SERVICE The public and the politicians who represent us have heard next to nothing about what kind of health and social care we will receive in this new system.

SAVE OUR A&E - BAND TOGETHER FOR THE NHS PUBLIC MEETING 12.30pm, SATURDAY 29th MARCH,
HALIFAX LEISURE CENTRE
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OUR NHS IS ACTING IN SECRECY, AS BUSINESSES INSTEAD OF A PUBLIC SERVICE This whole plan has been cooked up by three local NHS organisations that operate as businesses and take decisions without any democratic control and accountability: Calderdale & Hudderseld NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT), Locala and South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (the mental health trust). As businesses, these organisations haven!t had to tell our MPs what plans they were hatching - not even when Linda Riordan MP called a debate in the House of Commons and asked for information from the Secretary of State for Health. The public and our local Councillors still haven!t seen the Report that!s the basis for the proposals. Councillors have only heard an outline presentation of the Strategic Outline Case, that contains full information about the plans for reducing our hospital services and replacing them with community services. They haven!t seen that either.

THESE ARE SOME OF THE REASONS WHY WE SAY,

NO A&E CUTS IN CALDERDALE AND HUDDERSFIELD

Contact your representatives in Parliament and Calderdale Council
Calder Valley MP: Craig Whittaker, Tel: 01484 711260. MP's Constituency Ofce, First Floor, Spring Villa, 16 Church Lane, Brighouse, HD6 1AT Email: ofce@craigwhittakermp.co.uk Halifax MP: Linda Riordan, Constituency Ofce 2-4 Shaw Lodge House, HALIFAX, HX3 9ET E-mail: riordanl@parliament.uk Tel: 01422 251800. The ofce is staffed MondayFriday from 9am-5pm. Your Councillors: Find their names and contact details here http:// www.calderdale.gov.uk/council/ councillors/councillors/search/ index.jsp

Contact key NHS bureaucrats and directors

Dr Matt Walsh, Chief Ofcer, Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group, Email:matt.walsh@calderdaleccg.nhs. uk Owen Williams, Chief Executive, CHFT, Tel: 01484 355999 Robert Flack, Chief Executive, Locala, Twitter: @Locala_rack Steven Michael, Chief Executive SWYFT. Tel: main switchboard number 01924 327000. South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Fieldhead, Ouchthorpe Lane, Wakeeld WF1 3SP

Get involved with No A&E Cuts campaign groups

Save Calderdale Royal Hospital Facebook Group Upper Calder Valley Save Our A&E (changingmorethanlightbulbs@gmail .com) Calderdale 38 Degrees Band Together For the NHS

Take part in public events

Campaign stall this Sat, March 1st 10am-noon, in Halifax Town Centre Calderdale Health & Wellbeing Board, 2pm, Tuesday 4th March, Halifax Town Hall Calderdale 38 Degrees meeting, 6th March, 6pm,Ringo' Bells pub, HX1 ! (see map).