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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 […]

Press Release February 2018 CONSULTATION PROCESS IS “A SHAMBLES” The consultation process over stroke treatment in east Kent is now an “absolute shambles,” according to the Save Our NHS In Kent (SONIK) group. Their verdict followed the breakdown of a meeting held by local NHS bosses last night (26th Feb) at Margate Football Club. A […]

Save our local hospital emergency stroke services We need your support to help fund a legal challenge to the decision to close our emergency stroke services in both Barnsley and Rotherham local hospitals. Both Barnsley Save Our NHS and Rotherham Save Our NHS campaign groups are seeking to raise funds to support this challenge to […]

*** LATEST: Broadstairs Labour Party has also adopted the SONiK resolution*** ••• Margate West, Birchington and Villages branch has backed this too ••• The following resolution was passed at a meeting of Thanet North Labour Party this week. Other party groups and organisations are welcome to back us too. We are not a party political group but welcome […]

On Friday and Saturday last week, members of SONiK ran two fantastically successful stalls promoting the Save Our Stroke Services protest on 24 February at QEQM. We had queues of people wanting to sign our petition. We ran out of petitions really quickly and a fast thinking member managed to get one of the local […]

If you support our campaign, here’s 10 things you can do to help… WHAT YOU CAN DO 1. Sign our two petitions!  Change Our Stroke Service at QEQM Hospital and Halt the Undemocratic Pseudo-Consultation 2. Come to our protest on Saturday Feb 24th (12 noon, QEQM main entrance). Bring as many people with you as you can. […]

Model resolution of support Save Our NHS in Kent MODEL RESOLUTION This branch / committee / group notes: The NHS is under-funded, understaffed and struggling to cope with increasing demand. The Govern- ment is aiming to cut another £22bn from the NHS by 2020, nearly a fifth of the entire NHS budget. They intend to […]