Welcome to HOH

We are a grassroots campaign group, passionate about fighting the cuts and dangerous changes to our NHS. We are local people from all walks of life who are working together to fight the dismantling of our NHS and the threat to our local services, with a focus on Hinchingbrooke.

We attend Board Meetings, Health Scrutiny, Clinical Commissioning Group, council meetings and represent the public as best we can. We are all volunteers and we welcome support and help from the local community.

Hinchingbrooke is now  ‘merged’ (we say it was ‘acquired’) with Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust which is now under the name North West Anglia Foundation Trust Hospitals (NWAFT). Merging and centralising acute and emergency services are all part of what we know to be Sustainability & Transformation Plans/Partnerships which are shrinking and reshaping the NHS along the American model of healthcare.

The phrase “Integrated Care” is now commonplace and whilst NHS England and others spin this as “collaboration” and “improvement” we know this is really the American ‘Accountable Care Organisation’ model being entranched into our NHS. This USA model is built upon health insurance “risk stratification” and fixed reduced “population health budgets”.

Hands off Hinchingbrooke spokesperson Rob Gardiner:

“We are even more determined now. What we have to monitor now is any reduction in full A&E emergency services, the redistribution of staff, the “reallocation” of public land that Peterborough Executives will deem as non-necessary and sell to developers for housing, the shared backroom services that will give an IT company huge sums of money… it really is not a pretty picture.”

We follow the idea of “Act Local, Think National” because what happens here is due to the effects of what is happening nationally. We need and deserve a first class hospital which Hinchingbrooke can and should be.

If you want to help then please get in touch.  

We are meeting online currently on a monthly basis.

We’d encourage you all to become involved as we love the broad support from every part of the community, so follow us for updates on here or grab our RSS feed, or like us on Facebook .

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