Surrey County UNISON branch

All Surrey County members should join Paul Couchman (Deputy Branch Sec.) and Nick Kirk at:

NHS Together
“NOT either but NEITHER”
Rally to save St Peters & the Royal Surrey County Hospitals Saturday 3rd March 2007

 
The Town Square, Woking, Surrey

Speakers:
Ken Callanan “The Surrey Petition”
Phil Wood, Regional Secretary, UNISON South East Region
Sarah Dodsworth, Regional Officer Royal College of Nursing
Karin Peluso, Health Campaigner + others

Called by NHS Together - North & West Surrey and organised by Mick Moriarty.

Our aim is to send a powerful message in celebration and defence of the NHS.  We appeal to all members of the public, all members of our sister Trade Unions to come along to this rally.  We want to send out a message that the people of Surrey along with the Trade Union Movement will make every effort to campaign nationally, regionally and in Surrey to “save the NHS and keep it working”.

The rally will also aim to continue building for a Surrey campaign into one that is non party political, broad based and aims to save the threatened services of both St Peters (Chertsey, Surrey) & Royal Surrey County (Guildford, Surrey) hospitals.

Some people are working to save the services at either hospital and not both.  The fact of the matter is that if one hospital was to lose services such as A&E this would, in turn, put intolerable stress on the surviving hospital.

As such “Not Either But Neither” should be the underlying campaign theme to defend our hospitals all working together with one voice insisting on “NEITHER”.

We are talking about and making an appeal to build a broad based alliance to defend the services, values and ethos of our NHS to build on the principles of co-operation and collaboration.

As nothing should be more important than the campaign to save the NHS at Ashford and St Peters along with the Royal Surrey County Hospital.

We also appeal to the people to make submissions to the eagerly awaited “Fit for the Future” public Consultation exercise which is hopefully to be published in May 2007. We call on the people for Surrey to make a submission to the exercise in their tens or thousands, then and only then can we all make a difference. If you want to reserve a copy of the consultation document we advise you to write to:

Communication Department, Surrey PCT, Bournewood House, Guildford Road, Chertsey, Surrey KT16 0QA

Mick has also organised "Rock to Save the NHS". 2pm - 10pm at the HG Wells Centre, Woking. Tickets £5 on the door or can be bought at the 3rd March rally. Download the flyer

NHS Together Rally Flyer