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Campaigns supported by the Hastings People's Assembly
East Sussex Save the NHS Campaign
Our campaign is uniting people across East Sussex who care about our NHS. We are bringing people together, regardless of their political persuasion, who want to fight for our NHS. It is affiliated to both Health Campaigns Together and Keep Our NHS Public. We do not align ourselves to any political party.
Our campaign currently has a branch in Hastings, Eastbourne, and Wealden. It is vital that we unite across East Sussex as in the past campaigns in Hastings and Eastbourne have worked against each other. The Conquest and DGH faced losing core services some years ago. Separate campaigns in Eastbourne and Hastings fought over which hospital would lose a service. Now, we will unite to say no to either hospital losing services.
Across East Sussex we have the same commissioning body, our hospitals are run by the same NHS trusts and we all rely on the same County Council to scrutinise our local services. What happens in one area will affect surrounding areas. This campaign’s message is that everybody must have access to core services in their locality.
We know when trusts merge services they are simply cutting the service in one hospital. Services that remain do not get larger. But they may have to care for twice as many people.
NHS SOS
The NHS needs at least £20bn in emergency funding this winter and in the upcoming spring budget if it is to provide funds for urgent staff needs, to tackle the soaring bills for backlog maintenance and reopen almost 5,000 NHS beds that have not been used since the pandemic.
SOS NHS is a new coalition of campaign groups and trade unions which are demanding emergency funding for the NHS from the Government to support services and staff and not the private sector. So far our campaign is backed by Keep Our NHS Public, Health Campaigns Together, People’s Assembly Against Austerity, Unite the Union, GMB, We Own It, NHS Support Federation, NHS Workers Say No, NHS Staff Voices, Doctors in Unite, Doctors for the NHS and more.
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OUR THREE DEMANDS:
Approve emergency funding of £20 billion* to save lives this winter
__________________Invest in a fully publicly owned NHS & guarantee free healthcare for future generations
__________________Pay staff properly: without fair pay, staffing shortages will cost lives
Cost of Living Campaign
The People's Assembly are organising multiple protests across the UK against the inadequate government measures so far taken in relation to the cost of living crisis where families are having to choose between heating and eating.
Hastings People's Assembley will be at the St Leonard's Festival on the 2nd April where you can meet us and discuss the current crisis.