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For anyone who missed it - here's this evening's local news with the sudden revelation that Southend, Basildon and Chelmsford hospitals are to be merged into one massive Hospital Trust covering the entire Mid & South Essex area. The plans were rubber-stamped by...

So there you have it across the national news networks today - a merger of the three hospitals - no consultation either with public or staff and the focus on savings and efficiencies with a footnote to improvement in patient care, which as we know from the STP plans,...

From Echo on Friday 5th Jan 2018

The #MidandSouthEssexSTP (formerly known as Success Regime who dropped that name after they were defeated on the disgracefully dangerous A&E downgrade plans) are 'selling' their scheme to the public by stating that separation of emergency and planned (elective)...

With great sadness, #SaveSouthend bring to you yet another in a long line of devastating reports from the coalface of emergency care. The following is written by a local frontline nurse and one with a considerable amount of skill, knowledge and experience. Is this...

FRONT LINE UPDATE - Our local #NHS staff have provided another confidential update from the front line and we thank them for speaking out in order to help us fight for our local communities. “Yesterday there were only a handful of discharges from the hospital -...

Our campaign was started thanks to our local Southend Keep Our NHS Public group. Here’s their national coverage. https://keepournhspublic.com/news/new-nhs-funded-scheme-puts-patients-up-with-local-residents-at-50-a-day/

ITV News Article from yesterday featuring #SaveSouthendNHS. We still are at a loss to know why #SouthendHospital management gave permission to #CareRooms to be on site if they weren’t already thick as thieves with the scheme. What are your thoughts?

The #SaveSouthend campaign are proud to have exposed #CareRooms who were advertising in our hospital last week and grateful to the #HSJfor taking our fears seriously by investigating and publishing an article. It is all over national media. We shall continue our fight...

We saved our A&E from downgrade thanks to massive local community support. Now we need to fight to stop the downgrade of our town’s general hospital and the transfer of many medical and surgical patients to Basildon or Broomfield. We refuse to join the Success...

Our very own loyal #SaveSouthendNHS supporter Simon Ashley Cross is growing a beard to raise cash for new leaflets, posters and materials needed. We have a community bank account and our accounts are published annually. We have no sponsors, this campaign is run by...

Our response to Chief Exec Claire Panniker on her planned 'Transfer Teams' from the Echo article here #SaveSouthendNHS are really struggling to understand exactly WHAT is being transferred out around the county Ms. Panniker and why you will need your own 'in house'...