Notts-KONP - NHS Cameron Postcards Stall
Published:
January 08, 2012 17:25
by Tash [Alan Lodge] |
Neighbourhoods: market nottingham square
Saturday 7 January 2012
Nottingham Keep Our NHS Public held a stall in the Market Square and attracted quite a lot of interest from passers-by.
Their Events Listing said:
Nottm & Notts Keep Our NHS Public
Following our branch meeting last night and an urgent notice from the KONP office on Wednesday we agreed to have a stall in the Market Sq THIS SATURDAY to get as many Cameron Postcards signed up so that we can contribute to the delivery to David Cameron on Sunday 15th January around 2pm ..ish. This is timed to co-incide with two runners from Bevan's statue in Cardiff (see: http://bevansrun.blogspot.com).
We will be running our stall from 11:00am - 3:00pm and would welcome Notts-KONPers to join us. The stall will be adjacent to the left lion in front of the Council House - look out for the Notts-KONP banner and well worn pasting board. We have approx 650 KONP post cards (thanks to to UNITE 713M branch) and will need to get as many as possible signed and posted off to the London office at the start of next week in order for them to be part of the bundle presented to David Cameron next Sunday.
The cards contain the following message: see
http://www.keepournhspublic.com/campaignresources.php
Please join us on Saturday - if possible where a white lab coat - the weather forecast is blowy and fairly cold but hopefully dry.
Apologies for the short notice but we thought that we needed to put the new Nottm & Notts KONP branch on the map and raise the profile of the NHS campaign locally. Please contact us by return if you require further information to info@Notts-KONP.org.uk.
Contact email: info@Notts-KONP.org.uk
Previous events reports:
Save Our NHS Demo, Standard Court
http://nottingham.tachanka.org/articles/1085
Picket of NHS 'Listening Exercise' evening
http://nottingham.tachanka.org/articles/1782
Notts 'Save Our NHS' campaigning stall
http://nottingham.tachanka.org/articles/1788
NHS Anniversary Event: BBC roundabout, Nottingham
http://nottingham.tachanka.org/articles/1907
Save our NHS Protest in the Market Square
http://nottingham.tachanka.org/articles/2029
Public Meeting opposes Andrew Lansley's NHS Bill
http://nottingham.tachanka.org/articles/2048
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For immediate release: Tuesday 10th January 2011
Notts people rally to support six marathons to stop sick Health bill
Over 600 people enthusiastically signed post cards to David Cameron at the Notts-KONP stall in the Market Square on Saturday in support of Bevan's Run. The new Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Keep Our NHS Public branch were pleased with the response – 'We had expected to be here until 3;00pm but we'd run out of post cards by 1:15pm, people are clearly ready to sign up to fight for their NHS and have been inspired today by Bevan's Run', said Ian Hewitt the branch convener.
Representatives from Notts-KONP will be waiting for two NHS oncologists to arrive outside he Department of Health, Richmond House in London on Sunday afternoon following their 6 marathons in 6 days. Post cards from Nottingham will be presented to the Prime Minister's office by the two consultants.
Bevan’s Run is the project of two NHS oncologists from North East England - Doctors Clive Peedell and David Wilson – who are running 6 marathons in 6 days to raise public awareness of the dangers of the coalition Government's Health and Social Care Bill. It is organised by the NHS Consultants Association and supported by Keep Our NHS Public.
Sprinting off from Aneurin Bevan’s statue in Queen Street, Cardiff at 8.30am on Tuesday 10th January, Bevan’s runners will eventually arrive at the Department of Health in Whitehall, London, next Sunday afternoon, 15th January, where we hope there’ll be a crowd to welcome them.
NHSCA co-chairman, Dr Clive Peedell and NHSCA member, Dr David Wilson, will be running the 160 miles in 6 days (6 marathons), to highlight the opposition of the vast majority of the medical profession to the Health and Social Care Bill, which is due to go to the report stage in the House of Lords this month.
Aneurin Bevan would have been horrified at this coalition’s assault on the NHS. One thing is for sure: he will be behind Bevan’s Run all the way.
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