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Campaigning

At the bottom of Causewayhead

At the bottom of Causewayhead

Presenting the 24/7 opening of WCH UTC

At the bottom of Causewayhead

Newlyn raft race

Newlyn raft race

After the pop up shop on Market Jew St

At the Community Action Fest

Presenting petition to Downing Street

Trip to London

Day off, being pirates

NHS is 70

Meeting the Duchess of Cornwall

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West Cornwall HealthWatch press clippings

Presscutting: picture crowd with banner "Treat our children in Penzance" (Steve Fletcher, The Cornishman) "Please don't risk our lives" Local children and their muns this week added their weight to Penwith's mass protest against proposals to shut local hospitals and axe children's services at West Cornwall Hospital...

Presscutting: Will Edward Hain become another Poltair? Do you want the good news or the bad? Today's report is a mix of the two!...

Presscutting: Picture of ambulance. Outsourcing transport services is not the right road for our NHS. At West Cornwall HealthWatch we have had major concerns about patient access to services for a very long time...

Presscutting: Too much emphasis on structures. Last month we reported that our local NHS organisation has agreed to set up an Accountable Care System (ACS) to be officially launched on April 1st, with plans to go live in April 2019...

Presscutting: Will barriers be removed? As January comes to its wet and windy end, there is no let-up in the raft of news about ambulences stacked up outside accident and emergency departments...

Presscutting: Last January we wrote "A new year! Can we look forward with optimism?" Twelve months on no progress has been made on transforming and improving local healthcare...

Presscutting: Patient Transport Cuts will have a huge impact. Public transport in Cornwall is a problem isn't it? The County os long and thin and rural...

Presscutting: As summer draws to a close and Poldark seekers begin to drift back across the Tamar, we reflect on what we have been hearing from local people while out and about in Penwith....

Presscutting: June already! Another election - this time to select a government for five years. We have asked the prospective parliamentary candidates for St Ives and Hayle/Camborne to committ to...

Presscutting In the run-up to the Cornwall Council Elections we have contacted all the candidates in the old Penwith and Kerrier districts, asking them to sign up to five pledges around health and social care provision in Cornwall...

Presscutting: March has been a busy month for West Cornwall HealthWatch. At least 500 members of the public passed through the doors of our pop-up shop, all keen to talk about the future of the NHS and Cornwall's Sustainability and Transformation plan (STP)....

Presscutting: Campaign passes milestone. Picture Nigel Morson (bearded man in blue coat) Ethna McCarthy (long haired woman in black and Jane Varker (short haired woman in tan jacket) Picture of display boards. West Cornwall HealthWatch celebrated its 20th anniversary at its AGM...

Presscutting: Health watchdog marks 20 years of campaigning (Tom Gainey, The Cornishman) West Cornwall HealthWatch is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year...

Presscutting: Picture protesters with banners in the rain, Penzance. "Protesters make a stand for the NHS. People across West Cornwall took to the streets in a wave of action to support the NHS starting ath the most south-westerly tip [St Just] of the country up to Truro..." Cornwall Live

Spring is in the air and with it a hint of optimism. Can pressure from health campaigners, the BMA and the daily onslaught by the media about the state of the NHS bring about a positive outcome...

Presscutting: 2017 has kicked off with the people of Penwith showing their concern about what is happening to out local health and social care services. The STP engagement event at St John's Hall had one of the largest attendances of all the events scheduled...

Presscutting: The question 'who can we trust?' has never seemed so relevant as Cornwall's Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) finally makes an apperamnce, all beit a glossy PR version of the actual outline business case...

Presscutting: This month we are thinking about the old phrase 'squaring the circle', which is a neat way of saying attempting to do the impossible, and applying it to the Sustainability and Transformation plan for Cornwall...

Presscutting: St Ives Times and Echo "The real problem is that there are no longer any community beds in Penwith" letter from Jan Williams and Jane Varker

Presscutting: Our September column focuses on NHS England's Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) and its implementation through 44 'Footprints' or local STPs, Cornwall being designated as number 38...

Presscutting: Augist has arrivedalong with school holidays, lots of tourists and West Cornwall HealthWatch's new website. Summer is a difficult time for local NHS services, but in today's climate of austerity and financial restraint, this year looks set to be particularly challenging...

Presscutting: Midsummer's eve, Mazey Day and the EU referendum have all come and gone. Meanwhile more than half the population of Penwith believe the NHS will soon be in reciept of £350 million per week, while the other half are more likely to believe in the tooth fairy...

Presscutting: HealthWatch. As our long awaited summer arrives, West Cornwall HealthWatchcampaigners are reeling from shock after the publication of an independent review into our GP Clinical Commissioning Group (NHS Kernow) which cited comprehensive failings...

Presscutting: HealthWatch. Greetings from West Cornwall HealthWatch to all readers of the Cornishman. We will be writing a monthly column from now on and our intention is to enlighten you about what is happening within and to our local health services...

Presscutting: Campaign to fight NHS sale plans (by John Williams, the Cornishman) A campaign has been launched by several health groups to prevent Cornwall's Adult community Health Services from being sold off to private buisness....

Newspaper Clipping. Picture of Edward Hain Hospital and letter from Jan Williams: "West Cornwall HealthWatch has joined together with other groups such as 38 degrees, Heakth Initiatives Cornwall, Hands off our Hospital and the Labour Party to form a Campaign group called "Keep it with the NHS". The aim of the group is to prevent Cornwall's adult community health services from being farmed out to the private sector....

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