Last week, SONIK were branded ‘inaccurate’ and ‘irresponsible’ for voicing concerns that the stroke plans could lead to additional deaths for Thanet residents. Here is our response in full. [Please note that some publications have chosen to edit our response, this is why we want it to be clear that this is the full, unedited […]
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Thanet GP Hubs: Q & A with head of CCG
Save Our NHS in Kent QUESTIONS & ANSWERS – THANET GP HUBS Emails between C Jeffrey (SONIK) and Dr Tony Martin (Chair, Thanet CCG) on the topic of changes to Thanet GP surgeries (aka ‘supersurgeries’) —- On 29 March 2018 at 12:07, C Jeffrey wrote: Hello Tony, I hope you are well. I have a […]
Report from Broadstairs Listening Event
Broadstairs Listening Event (public consultation meeting), Stroke Review report: 24.03.2018 (week 7 of the 10 week consultation) The venue was full, with all 110 seats full, and some people being turned away as they hadn’t booked. Ten members of SONIK were present in the audience (we had requested a place on the panel to provide […]
What has happened to CAMHS?
If you attempted to telephone your local Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in the first weeks of September, in Broadstairs or Canterbury, or anywhere else in Kent or Medway, you will have been greeted by a monotonous tone signalling that the telephone line had been disconnected. No-one was warned about this; not the […]
SONiK launches challenge to the STP document
Drafted with advice from our legal team: Harrison Grant Solicitors, click the link: Signed Letter to Stroke Review Committee requesting the withdrawal of stroke review plan or reconsultation X
A REPLY TO CLLR PAUL MESSENGER
Response to Cllr Paul Messenger from Save Our NHS in Kent (re Stroke review plans in Kent) Paul Messenger (PM): I am genuine in my worries that mis info is being put out there possibly scaring badly some elderly Thanet residents that they will ‘die in ambulances’ SONiK: If you had attended any of the […]
REPORT: Listening Event 26 Feb
A summary of the Listening Event at Margate Football Club, Kent and Medway stroke Review, 26th Feb 2018. People arrived and seated themselves at round tables facing the panel at the front of the room. Each table had one facilitator from the Kent and Medway STP (Sustainability and Transformation Partnership, the group of NHS executives […]
STROKE CONSULTATION BRIEFING
By Steve Wilkins – briefing for people going to a Listening Event. THE case that is being made to centralise stroke services into just 3 Hyper Acute Stroke Units (HASUs) in Kent & Medway is that this will benefit people who have strokes because they will receive greater intensive treatment, faster with a dedicated multi-disciplinary team […]