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The NHS Harrow Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) meeting behind closed doors is considering its Initial Budgets and Financial Plan 2017/18 which presents most concerning picture. The CCG, which works closely with Harrow Council on health and social care issues, is responsible for planning and buying (commissioning) many of the health services needed by the 239,100Continue reading “NHS underfunding biting – Harrow CCG in dire situation – implications for health care”

Harrow’s opposition Tory group leader Cllr Susan Hall attacks Labour London Mayor for approving plans to build 186 homes, of which 41 per cent will be affordable, in Palmerston Road, Wealdstone, saying that his tower blocks decision was “disrespectful” to people living nearby – Cllr Hall has a shop in the area. The mayor SadiqContinue reading “Council opposition not serious about housing crisis!”

Kenton East by-election called due to the sad death of Cllr Mitzi Green (Labour) will be held on 20 April 2017. The Labour and Tory candidates for this marginal ward by-election, as we predicted, are likely to be Nish Patel, chairman Harrow East constituency Labour party and Nitesh Hirani, a temple activist member of theContinue reading “Now arena set for Kenton East!”

As expected, the Labour candidate Maxine Henson very comfortably won the Roxbourne Ward by-election held on 9 March 2017,  due to the sad death of Cllr Bob Currie. Labour’s share of votes at the ward (62.8%) has improved and remains much higher than Tories who have been facing  crushing defeats under Cllr Hall’s leadership –Continue reading “Another crushing defeat for Tory opposition!”

Seemingly the Labour candidate Maxine Henson is all set to comfortably win the Roxbourne Ward by-election on 9 March 2017, called due to the sad death of Cllr Bob Currie. Labour’s share of votes at the ward was 31% higher than Tories at the last council election. Added to this, Tories have been consistently facingContinue reading “Tories all set to lose another Harrow by-election, many say!”

National NHS demonstration: ‘Keep Our NHS Public’ – ‘Our NHS is not for sale’. Demo on 4 March 2017 was called by Health Campaigns Together & the People’s Assembly. Over 250, 000 people marched from Tavistock Square to Parliament Square. Support by many in Harrow. Jeremy Corbyn and his speech very warmly received. Click theContinue reading “Keep Our NHS Public”

Harrow Council is consulting about the redevelopment, called Poet’s Corner, at the present site of the civic centre when it moves to Wealdstone. Harrow stands on the brink of its biggest regeneration opportunity in decades, led by the chief executive, and needs wider support to deliver the programme in a borough that has diverse populationContinue reading “Poets’ Corner!”

We share the sad news  – Councillor Mitzi Green passed away yesterday after a period of illness. Cllr Green was a Harrow councillor (Lab) for almost twenty years and recently a Kenton East  councillor since 2006. She held several positions at the Council, including the Children’s Services portfolio. Cllr Green was friendly and passionate aboutContinue reading “Cllr Mitzi Green passed away”

The Tory opposition leader  tweeted “Labour’s inability to control the budget will cause many problems for our residents in Harrow”, but she failed to present a shadow budget at the Council meeting last Thursday to enrich the financial decision making – the opposition owed this to the residents. Budget-making is a key function of theContinue reading “Harrow needs healthy opposition”

Based on Harrow experiences, the Harrow Monitoring Group in an open letter to the health secretary Jeremy Hunt asked: In view of your various and rather confusing statements about the GP work, we are not quite sure what exactly you expect the GPs to do, but focussing on the 10-minute appointment slot, the NHS ChoicesContinue reading “GPs free to organise their work – says Hunt!”