Useful documents and leaflets etc.

• Petition

  Please download and print this blank petition form in order to gather signatures from your friends, family and colleagues etc.

  Blank Petition Form (PDF)

• Flyers and Leaflets

  Flyers and leaflets to download, print and distribute.

  • What's Happening To Our NHS (PDF)
  • Public Meeting - July 2017 - Poster (PDF)
    Public Meeting - July 2017 - Leaflet (PDF)
  • Sunderland & South Tyneside Flyer 2017-01-14 : Inc. regional & national demo dates (PDF)
  • March to Defend Our Hospital March for the NHS 2016-10-22 : full colour version (PDF)
    March to Defend Our Hospital March for the NHS 2016-10-22 : short monochrome version (PDF)

• Newsletters

  Periodical newsletters published by the campaign.

  • Newsletter No.1 April 18th, 2017 (PDF)

    Including:

    • Now is the Time to Defend Our Hospitals and Our NHS
    • Briefing On Northumbria, Tyne & Wear and north Durham Sustainability and Transformation Plan
    • The Save South Tyneside Hospital Campaign and the Building of an Unstoppable Movement
    

• Press Releases / Open Letters

  • “The South Tyneside and Sunderland Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) have told us they are preparing to start consultation most likely in late May on the first phase of the consultation on the Clinical Reviews at South Tyneside Hospital.”

    April 2017 - Press Release (PDF)

  • Press releases in response to the draft STP published on November 9th 2016.

    SSTHC calls on everyone to block STPs - January 2017 - Press Release (PDF)
    SSTHC calls on everyone to block STPs - November 2016 - Press Release (PDF)

  • An open letter to South Tyneside and Sunderland leaders of the Hospital Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Health and Well-Being Boards and Council leaders to call on them to release the Sustainability & Transformation Plans.

    Call To Publish STPs - Open Letter (PDF)
    Call To Publish STPs - Press Release (PDF)

• Briefings

  • A document prepared by SSTHC for South Tyneside Councillors giving another perspective on the NTWND STP and explaining why they should not approve it.

    SSTHC Briefing on STP (PDF)

    Supporting Documents:

    The Autumn Statement - Joint statement on health and social care (PDF)
    Monthly Delayed Transfers of Care Data, England, September 2016 (PDF)
    Freedom of Information Request (PDF)

  • A briefing pack for councillors and campaigners explaining why councils and councillors should not be signing or supporting STPs.

    2016-10-28 STP HCT Resource Pack (PDF)

  • South Tyneside Foundation NHS Trust is holding a presentation of its Annual Report “highlight of the year 2015-2016” and financial statements on Friday September 9 2016 at an Annual General meeting at the Education centre in the hospital. The Save South Tyneside Hospital Campaign is submitting its own briefing on South Tyneside Foundation NHS Trust's annual report and why the report should be rejected.

    SSTH Campaign Briefing on STFT Annual Report 2015-2016 (PDF)

• Evidence

  This is a random collection of documents that shed some light on the processes talking place within the NHS. Many of the documents here will be available elsewhere on the internet, but we make them available here in the aim of disseminating these 'documents of public interest' as widely as possible.

  • A report from March 2017 by Sir Robert Naylor, produced for the Secretary of State for Health (Jeremy Hunt). Very broadly it makes a case for selling off NHS property and estates, and suggests that insentives (amounting to bribes and blackmail) can be used to persuade struggling (that is deliberately underfunded) hospital trusts to sell their land and property.

    Naylor Report - NHS Property and Estates (PDF)

  • In 1988 MP Oliver Letwin co-authored a paper with John Redwood advocating and roughing-out the steps required to privatise the NHS. It gives an extraordinary insight into the minds of those people who seek to monetise health care. It is an easy read as it is relatively short, well written and discusses some basic ideas around the aim of monetising the NHS. It is perhaps not recommended if you have high blood pressure!

    Britain's Biggest Enterprise (PDF)

  • Also published in 1988 is this paper by the Adam Smith Institute (a neoliberal think-tank) which outlines the steps needed to transform the NHS from a socialised system to an insurance based system.

    The Health of Nations (PDF)