Oxford Health Newswire Archive

19-01-2015 15:59 | 0 comment(s)

Southern Health NHS Trust, a Drowning and a Call for Better Care Everywhere

A young man is left in a bath to drown while in the care of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, led by Chief Executive Katrina Percy, who sees no reason to resign in spite of ongoing failings at facilities she is ultimately responsible for.

A recent inspection report at the only remaining in-patient service on the same site has identified problems that include extremely stressed and exhausted staff on duty and on call for unacceptably long hours because of under-staffing. This is not a problem confined to Southern Health, but what are we going to do about it?

23-05-2014 07:27 | 0 comment(s)

IT SHOULD HURT TO BE A CHILD ?

IT SHOULD HURT TO BE A CHILD ?

Please Share and comment on the article the more evidence the better.

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02-05-2014 01:26 | 0 comment(s)

Protective Shielding

Most people do not realise that our bodies and minds are being subjected to toxic electronic smog and at times electro-magnetic attacks. Read more >>

25-02-2014 15:57 | 0 comment(s)

Personal Budgets: It Is Working?

Free Workshop for Service Users, Carers, and ‘Frontline’ Workers

12.00pm - 3:15pm, Saturday 8th March 2014,

West Oxford Community Centre Read more >>

08-11-2013 19:50 | 0 comment(s)

£83k grant will help get homeless off the streets

A GOVERNMENT grant will help a homeless charity give one-on-one help to rough sleepers in Oxford to get them off the streets. Read more >>

07-03-2013 13:28 | 3 comment(s)

Food Lovers set to besiege Vale of Evesham Vegan Fair, Sat 23 March

The Vale of Evesham Vegan Fair on Saturday 23rd March is expected to attract hundreds of local residents and people from across the region. With lots of delicious FREE food, 20 stalls, talks and cookery demos, this is the biggest vegan event ever staged in Worcestershire!!
At Evesham Town Hall, 10.30am - 4pm. FREE admission, all welcome!

http://www.veganmidlands.org.uk
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05-03-2013 15:07 | 0 comment(s)

OSARCC is recruitment helpline and email support volunteers

We are currently looking for new volunteers to staff our telephone and email helplines. Read more >>

29-01-2013 16:25 | 0 comment(s)

Vale of Evesham Vegan Fair, Sat 23 March

Vale of Evesham's first ever Vegan Fair!
Featuring lots of FREE food samples, 20 stalls, cookery demos, talks, vegan cafe and lots more...!
FREE admission - All welcome!

http://www.veganmidlands.org.uk/events/evesham13.html Read more >>

01-12-2012 09:31 | 2 comment(s)

Cameron heckled at Xmas lights ceremony

Prime Minister David Cameron was heckled on Friday evening at a Christmas lights ceremony in Witney by several people angry at the impact of welfare reforms and cuts. The protesters read the names and details of people who had died as a result of these policies, and held placards accusing Cameron of having "blood on his hands". Read more >>

30-08-2012 11:54 | 0 comment(s)

OSARCC is now recruiting for volunteers

We are currently looking for new volunteers to staff our telephone and email helplines. Full training will be provided and we look for women who are sympathetic to our principles and who are team players. We require volunteers to have a good level of English and they must be able to be involved for a minimum of 18 months. Training commences in October 2012 and runs over a series of evenings and weekends. Read more >>

30-05-2012 12:05 | 2 comment(s)

Keep Gloucestershire's NHS Public Rallies Sat 16th June: Save Our NHS!

The Keep Gloucestershire's NHS Public campaign hit the headlines earlier this year when a legal challange by 76 year old Michael Lloyd, supported by Gloucestershire anti-cuts groups, forced local NHS bosses to stop plans to take community health services out of the NHS and hand them over to a 'community interest company'.
The battle to keep these services out of the hands of private sector health multinationals is not over, however, and co-ordinated county-wide protest rallies are taking place in Gloucestershire on Saturday June 16th. Read more >>

21-04-2012 14:48 | 2 comment(s)

Virgin Keep our NHS Public Picket: report and pics

Saturday 21 April saw about 30 activists descend on the Virgin shop in Cornmarket to protest Branson's plans to start buying bits of the NHS to run as competently as he runs trains, no doubt. Read more >>

20-04-2012 09:28 | 2 comment(s)

Keep Virgin Profiteering Out of Our NHS!

Keep Our NHS Public will be picketing the Virgin Store, Cornmarket, Oxford, 12 noon this Saturday. Read more >>

20-03-2012 17:23 | 3 comment(s)

2nd occupation in opposition to NHS reforms

another occupation Read more >>

16-03-2012 15:52 | 4 comment(s)

Interview with PCT occupiers

Interview with occupiers Read more >>

16-03-2012 13:59 | 7 comment(s)

We are occupying PCT headquarters in oxford ...

We are occupying PCT headquarters in oxford ... Read more >>

09-03-2012 17:23 | 0 comment(s)

Volunteer for Oxford's rape crisis centre (repost)

OSARCC is now recruiting volunteers. Read more >>

09-03-2012 10:19 | 1 comment(s)

Save Our NHS, Public Meeting, Stroud 15 March 2012

Following a high court challenge by Stroud resident Michael Lloyd, NHS Gloucestershire has withdrawn plans to transfer our local hospitals & 3000 NHS health workers out of the NHS. This is great news, but this is just the first step in keeping our health services in the NHS. The campaign to Keep Gloucestershire’s NHS Public needs your support now more than ever. Read more >>

05-03-2012 15:52 | 0 comment(s)

Wake Up Call follow-up: Oxford coaches NHS rally in London this Wednesday

Following the screening of Wake Up Call, a series of three films explaining the Coalition Government's proposals for the privatisation of the NHS, there was quite a lot of interest from people interested in getting hold of the film and also to go to the rally to be held this Wednesday. Read more >>

15-10-2011 10:28 | 0 comment(s)

Weekly blog roundup

The following is drawn from a variety of local activist blogs

23-09-2011 15:21 | 0 comment(s)

National treasures 'under the hammer' as campaigners auction off public services

Protest against the government's plans to sell off ALL our public services. Meet outside Westminster tube station (opposite Big Ben) in London at 1pm this Saturday 24 September. (Ring Cat Hobbs for more information or to join the protest 07817 885 131.) Read more >>

21-06-2011 12:35 | 0 comment(s)

Oxford City Council - Chipping away at Democracy with a Sledgehammer

Wed 22 June at 4:50pm Oxford Town Hall, St Aldates, Oxford.

Labour councillors have again tried to shut down public views/democracy by preventing public speaking at City Executive Board meetings. At 5pm (prompt)on Wednesday 22 June at the Town Hall, 128 public questions which have been submitted, will be asked! Read more >>

29-05-2011 23:30 | 0 comment(s)

Return of the Big Society Hospital

The Big Society Hospital returned to Oxford on Saturday as activists fro Oxford Save Our Services, Keep Our NHS Public, and several other groups converged on Cornmarket to highlight the disastrous implications of the NHS reforms & cuts. Would you let a Big Society volunteer operate on you? Read more >>

19-03-2011 17:51 | 6 comment(s)

Oxford's Big Society Hospital - Video & Photos

Today campaigners staged a 'big society hospital' in Cornmarket. Patients were operated on by volunteer doctors recruited from shoppers in central Oxford in a satire of the government's 'big society' plans that imagine volunteers can take on the roles of skilled public sector workers. Read more >>

18-03-2011 16:02 | 2 comment(s)

A feast of anti-cuts actions in Oxford

Anti-cuts campaigners are ramping up the pressure to fight cuts in our public services. Here's a selection of protests and meetings that you can get involved in. Read more >>

15-02-2011 12:40 | 0 comment(s)

Anti- GM Protestors Target Oxford Tesco

[Oxford] This morning, as part of a nationwide day of action on genetically modified (GM) products in UK supermarkets, two groups of protesters entered Tesco’s on Cowley Road in Oxford to warn customers who might be unwittingly buying GM products. Read more >>

15-01-2011 22:03 | 0 comment(s)

The Case to Close Temple Cowley Pools is Crumbling...

We are getting more and more information, mostly forcing it out of the council via Freedom of Information requests, that refutes all the arguments they have used to push forward with their scheme to close TCP. Read more >>

19-11-2010 17:59 | 1 comment(s)

Pool in peril (Oxford)

The council are not only demolishing our livelihoods – while lining their own pockets – they are also just stupid. The decision to close Temple Cowley Pool is a clear example.

Article taken from Issue 1 of The Ox-Fly - Oxford's radical newsletter:

http://theoarc.org.uk/oxfly.pdf

http://theoarc.org.uk/oxfly_hires.pdf

http://theoarc.org.uk/oxfly.txt Read more >>