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24th January 2012
Cllr John Salter reports
Our thanks again to Zara Richardson for her constant vigilance. Zara drew our attention to some problems with Central Park’s lights and CCTV – which have been recently renewed.
This in now being dealt with by Streetscene and will be reported back to the Central Park Partnership.
Thanks also to Streetscene for their immediate acknowledgement of our request to them.
22nd January 2011
Following years of neglect under Tory governments, Labour invested heavily in replacing crumbling buildings and increasing nurse and doctor numbers to rebuild the National Health Service. Most residents of the Wallasey Riverside area, covering from Seacombe to New Brighton, would agree that we are now well served with excellent local medical practices, backed up by top class Wirral hospitals. But we have not yet met anybody on the doorstep who believes what this Tory-led government is now doing to the NHS is acceptable.
Follow the link below to read Angela’s summary in November. The latest developments show her view was spot on.
http://www.angelaeaglemp.co.uk/news.php?id=242
Labour created the National Health Service during the economic aftermath of Hitler’s war when Britain faced economic re-construction with burdens greater even than the Bankers’ gambling-debt crisis we are all now being forced to pay for. It was created in the face of dogged opposition from the Tories. So what’s changed?
Health is the most important element of every person’s ‘wealth’. Isn’t there something fundamentally unwholesome about the privatisation of health provision into profit inspired businesses?
Last week the pressure on Lansley increased when official health department data revealed that the number of patients not being treated within the 18-week time limit has soared by 43% since the Tory/LibDem coalition took office. Led by the Doctors’ organisation “The British Medical Association” a meeting has been called of all 20 members of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. Along with the nurses’ and midwives’ unions, these health professionals are calling loudly for the bill to be scrapped.
The meeting comes as one of Downing Street’s advisers on the NHS, Professor Chris Ham, King’s Fund health thinktank chief executive, warns that growing disquiet across the medical establishment “could become an NHS version of the Arab spring”.
Despite the Tories’ attempts to personalise politics, with rather silly jibes at individuals, we believe the people of the UK will no more forgive the collaboration government of LibDems and Tories, for their policies towards the NHS, than they will for their closeness to the bankers who plunged the world into its present economic chaos.
This ‘Health Policy Insight’ article provides excellent information, well worth reading for anyone who believes in the NHS
http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/?q=node%2F1313
We will be interested to hear your views.
19th January 2011
Cllr Pat Glasman
One of the new planters
Unfortunately, on Friday night somebody attacked the planter outside the Post Office and plants were thrown around outside the shop and onto the canopy above but the staff did their best to rescue the planter. I hope this doesn’t happen too often, especially as the Post Office is such an essential hub in the community.