Date for your Diary: Next Branch Meeting on Tues Februrary 7th 2017 @ 7pm
This meeting is open to the public. Both members and non-members with an interest in joining can attend. 
So if you know anyone keen to find out more about Labour in our locality please bring them along or pass on details of the event.
Meeting agenda will be circulated by email.
Meeting location:
Tamar Valley Methodist Church in Albaston, Gunnislake,
Date for your Diary: Next Branch Meeting on Tues January 10th 2017 @ 7pm
This meeting is open to the public. Both members and non-members with an interest in joining can attend. 
So if you know anyone keen to find out more about Labour in our locality please bring them along or pass on details of the event.
Meeting agenda will be circulated by email.
Meeting location:
Tamar Valley Methodist Church in Albaston, Gunnislake,
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Campaign Meeting 4th Jan 2017 – Defend NHS Cornwall from Massive Cuts
AT OUR LAST MEETING on 6th December James Craigie, chair of Save Our Hospital Services (SOHS), Devon, talked about their campaign against the Sustainability & Transformation Plan (STP).
The objective of the STP is to bring NHS budgets out of deficit by 2020. The means to balance the books has been to propose massive cuts in expenditure that will reduce the number of available hospital beds by closing hospitals, relocating local services and contracting out services currently provided by hospitals.
The outcome of these changes could result in:
- Local hospitals and healthcare facilities being closed down completely
- Vulnerable and infirm patients having to travel greater distances to receive NHS services
- The families of those in hospital care will need to travel further to visit loved ones
- Cuts to services involving care for the elderly
Since the meeting we have learnt that Devon Council has formally rejected their STP plan. The cuts were rejected unanimously by members of all political parties who pledged to fight for fairer NHS funding in Devon by putting pressure on central Government and to “speak up for the people of Devon who are terrified by the implications of this flawed process”.
The Save Our Hospital Services Devon (SOHS Devon) campaign has been instrumental in bringing this issue to the Council Chamber via lobbying at town and district level by stressing that in these plans: “‘Nothing is ruled out’. That ‘nothing’ includes all our acute services – consultant-led maternity, paediatrics, neonatology and stroke.”
Cornwall is currently involved in the consultation stage. Consultation ends on January 20th, meaning that we need to table our response in quickly.
It was agreed at our meeting that we would formulate a response at the meeting on 4th January 2017.
All members and supporters are invited to this important meeting in our vital campaign to oppose STP’s and the cuts to our health services that will follow on from these plans if the government is allowed to get its way.
Meeting date: 4th January 2017
Time: 7 – 9 pm
Where: Calstock Village Hall
Tamar Valley Labour 
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