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	Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern (often known by the shorter name Health Concern) is a political party based in Kidderminster, England.
		On both occasions, Health Concern benefited from a decision by the Liberal Democrats not to put up a candidate of their own.
		Health Concern is also active in local government, although it has lost much support in recent years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Independent_Kidderminster_Hospital_and_Health_Concern (281 words)

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		Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern Kiddminster Hospital and Health Concern is a England.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/health.html (1716 words)

	Health Concerns -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Age Concern is the name of a number of charitable organizations specifically concerned with the needs and concerns of old people.
		Age Concern organisations are active in many countries, and the international network is considered to be one of the leading authorities on aging related issues.
		The sum of all core concerns is the business logic of a program, while all other aspects of the program are needed for proper execution, but not part of the actual business logic.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/68/health-concerns.html (694 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		Kidderminster hospital was established during the 1960s to replace the town's original Victorian infirmary.
		His decision to side with the health authority, he says, was based purely on professional advice: some local GPs and sections of an independent report by the medical charity the King's Fund supported the cuts, on the grounds that Kidderminster hospital was too small to continue providing a full range of surgery.
		Other PFI hospitals have been widely criticised for the penny-pinching and shoddiness of their designs; when Worcester is shown to be inadequate, the Health Concern argument goes, the health authority will be forced to re-open the mothballed sections of Kidderminster.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4369606,00.html (4022 words)

	Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern (often known by the shorter name Health Concern) is a (An organization to gain political power) political party based in (additional info and facts about Kidderminster) Kidderminster, (A division of the United Kingdom) England.
		It grew out of the campaign to restore the casualty unit at Kidderminster Hospital, and the (additional info and facts about National Health Service) National Health Service is still its primary focus, but the party has since diversified.
		On both occasions, Health Concern benefited from a decision by the (additional info and facts about Liberal Democrats) Liberal Democrats not to put up a candidate of their own.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/in/independent_kidderminster_hospital_and_health_concern.htm (253 words)

	Richard Taylor (UK politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dr Richard Thomas Taylor (born July 7, 1934) is an English medical doctor turned politician, and an independent Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest, having run as the Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern candidate.
		He campaigned largely on a single issue: that of keeping Kidderminster Hospital open, and won with a majority of 18,000 - defeating the incumbent Labour MP and junior minister, David Lock.
		In this, he was aided by the Liberal Democrats' decision not to stand a candidate against him and instead support his campaign.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Taylor_(UK_politician) (248 words)

	Surgery Door News - Hospital campaigners take over local council
		Hospital campaigners in the West Midlands have found themselves in control of the district council after victory in yesterday's (02/05/02) local elections.
		KHHC is campaigning against the downgrading of services at nearby Kidderminster Hospital and calling for the re-opening of the Accident and Emergency department.
		Dr Taylor told Health Media that he was "absolutely delighted" with the result and that it demonstrated that people have confidence in KHHC to take charge of issues other than health.
	www.surgerydoor.co.uk /news/detail.asp?offset=2174 (276 words)

	Independent Working Class Association - national website
		Theirs was the hospital the people built: Kidderminster Hospital's League of Friends had contributed nearly £3m during the past decade; now they looked on as removal vans hauled away the equipment they had purchased.
		Health Concern and Taylor compelled the government to concede that some services needed to be returned to Kidderminster Hospital: 47 beds have since been restored for in-patients, and Kidderminster was granted a doctor-free minor injuries unit.
		'Health Concern is not only about saving Kidderminster; it's about health and the NHS, and about community wellbeing.' To prove his point, he enumerates some of the areas in which he feels Health Concern has succeeded on the district council: regeneration, recycling, leisure, community housing, balancing the budget.
	www.iwca.info /cor/cor0027.htm (2224 words)

	British Medical Journal: Private finance scheme for Worcester - Letter to the Editor
		I am concerned that the BMJ has adopted a stance that is consistently against the private finance initiative and has not presented a balanced picture of modern health planning.
		They say, for example, "The hospital in Kidderminster is not closing." But it is losing its accident and emergency department and all acute inpatient beds.
		They also say: "90% of patients currently treated at Kidderminster Hospital will still be treated there." Of course they will because this is the approximate proportion that attend as outpatients and day cases at any acute general hospital.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0999/is_7267_321/ai_66881334 (1035 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Opinion - Parties must respond to the single-issue threat
		Dr Taylor’s Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern party, if party it could be called, shattered that smug view by inflicting a heavy defeat on the sitting Labour MP and government minister, Richard Lord.
		Lord Watson, as he does not like to be known, has been doing a convincing impression of Dr Doolittle’s push-me-pull-you as he tries to reconcile his position as a local MSP pledged to fight the downgrading of the Victoria Infirmary in his Cathcart constituency with his responsibility as a government minister.
		A campaign to save a hospital or to preserve a swimming pool that leads to a serious challenge to a sitting politician scares the living daylights out of those in power and serves to keep self-satisfied elected representatives on their toes.
	news.scotsman.com /opinion.cfm?id=958182002 (1393 words)

	Red Pepper \| British Politics Election 2005 \| Mr Smith comes from Kidderminster, Natasha Grzincic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		At first, there was hope that Labour might save the hospital; after all, the local Labour MP David Lock was the campaign’s vice-chair, and it was the Tories who had started squeezing out some of the hospital’s services in the 1980s.
		In district council terms, Health Concern reached its high-water mark in 2001, when it held 21 out of 42 seats.
		It seems that Health Concern managed to break the political mould and create an atmosphere of discontent around a progressive issue, but then lost the energy to build on that and waned.
	www.redpepper.org.uk /brit/x-mar2005-grzincic.htm (1999 words)

	HSJ Election 2005 news - All aboard: the campaign bandwagon rolls into town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Department of Health is stalling over a decision on a controversial £1bn business case for a 'super hospital' in Paddington, west London, which would see Harefield close.
		He stood as the Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern candidate, snatching the Wyre Forest seat from Labour.
		He feels the Kidderminster case was responsible for changes aimed at involving people more in local decision-making and avoiding uproar over hospital closures or service alterations.
	www.shop.hsj.co.uk /mini/election2005/Feature3_bandwagon.htm (1843 words)

	Tribune Articles 11th. May 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Lock, is being challenged by Dr. Richard Taylor, a leading opponent of the closure of the accident and emergency ward at local Kidderminster Hospital.
		Taylor, a hospital consultant of 23 years experience, will be representing the Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern campaign, whose members seized control of the local district council from Labour last year during the campaign to save the AandE ward.
		The crash inquiry, chaired by retired rail engineer John Mitchell, says it cannot reconcile the various conflicting accounts over the failure to repair the track, partly because: "A dozen Railtrack employees and one former Railtrack worker were advised by lawyers not to give oral evidence to the inquiry in case of future prosecution".
	www.tribweb.co.uk /extract11052001.htm (1933 words)

	Not updated: Kidderminster Health Concern - Latest News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		I would pass concerns about road maintenance, lighting, pot holes, dog fouling, verges, litter, hedges etc. to the relevant people and require to be notified by the complainant if improvement did not happen promptly.
		Adequate funding and some form of rationing of some parts of health care have to be discussed openly and honestly so that the aim of ‘cradle to grave’ care can continue to be possible for those that need it.
		Extra resources would not be released to health service providers unless their services were shown to be operating at peak efficiency without the gross waste and stupidity that occurs in the NHS now.
	www.psr.keele.ac.uk /area/uk/e01/man/kidderminman.htm (2208 words)

	FT.com - Special Reports / UK Election 2001
		Dr Taylor, who stood for Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern, was only the second, genuinely independent candidate to win a seat in 50 years.
		Following the announcement that the hospital was to be downgraded in 1997, Health Concern has taken 19 seats on the local council, running it in a coalition with the Conservatives and others.
		Mr Lock, married to a GP and defending a 7,000 majority, found himself trapped by his reluctant agreement with the health authority that reduced junior doctors' hours and other changes meant Kidderminster was too small to support a full A&E department.
	specials.ft.com /ukelection2001/FT3TY8UKPNC.html (360 words)

	Hospital site to be guarded for health - This Is Worcestershire archive
		THE Kidderminster Hospital site will be protected to meet future health care needs.
		"I am very relieved that the inspector agreed with Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern that, with current hospital services creaking throughout the county, combined with the prospect of further improvement locally, it is essential to safeguard the whole site for health," he said.
		A spokeswoman for Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust said it had not yet received the inspector's report.
	archive.thisisworcestershire.co.uk /2003/05/17/202003.html (350 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Hereford/Worcs \| Report into downgraded hospital
		The decision in 2000 to close A&E at Kidderminster Hospital led to the election of independent Dr Richard Taylor in place of the Labour MP.
		But despite concerns about casualty and other acute services being moved 15 miles away to the Worcestershire Royal Hospital, a three-year study has concluded there has been little variation in so-called measures of health, such as death rates.
		He said some of his constituents are now forced to travel 30 miles to the PFI hospital in Worcester instead of 10 miles to use NHS emergency care facilities in Kidderminster.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/4615337.stm (367 words)

	Paul Flynn MP - Newport West - Hot News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		THE demeanour of Dr Richard Taylor, the retired consultant who became only the second independent candidate in almost 60 years to win a seat in parliament, is in stark contrast to the slick, professional young politicians who increasingly dominate the Commons.
		Striding defiantly into The Glades Leisure Centre in Kidderminster, weary-eyed after back-to-back interviews and less than three hours' sleep, Dr Taylor said he was confident that as the chairman of the Health Concern political party he could represent the wishes and concerns of Wyre Forest at Westminster.
		He is against a ban on hunting, is anti-Europe and believes that people should have the right to receive private health care or send their children to private school.
	www.paulflynnmp.co.uk /hotnewsdetail.jsp?id=466 (559 words)

	Society \| Engaging amateur will carry on meddling
		Dr Richard Taylor is standing for the Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern party.
		Dr Taylor is a mild, thoughtful man, though moved to something near fury by the reduction of his beloved hospital to a shell operation.
		When Dr Taylor went to a school to talk to parents, one woman told how her little boy had had a burst appendix, and she'd had to go to Worcester with him, and couldn't get home at all, so her husband had to leave work and look after the other three...
	society.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4191121-108069,00.html (588 words)

	Politics \| Hospital campaigner retains seat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Dr Richard Taylor, who stood as part of a campaign to save his local hospital from closure, held on to his seat in Wyre Forest with 18,739 votes, giving him a 5,250 majority ahead of Conservative candidate Mark Garnier.
		Dr Taylor, who stood on an Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern ticket, took a 39.9% share of the vote yesterday - nearly 20% down on his 2001 victory.
		The retired rheumatologist originally swept to power after voters backed his campaign to save his local Kidderminster hospital from closure, unseating Mr Lock, who had gone on to become a government minister.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5187767-115819,00.html (184 words)

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	Politics \| Bedside manners gladden the heart
		Standing for a single-issue party with the less than snappy title of Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern, he overturned a large Labour majority, destroyed the Tories, kicked out a minister, and won the seat of Wyre Forest with a majority of 17,630, a figure most MPs can only dream of during fitful, sleepless nights.
		The original impetus for him standing was the virtual closure of the local Kidderminster hospital, and the transfer of nearly all its functions to Redditch and Worcester, which are some way away and already overburdened.
		The people you've helped and their families might be happy to vote for you." The school had emptied, and he and his team headed up the village for some leafleting.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5184361-112260,00.html (535 words)

	Audit Commission - Cleansing Services
		Following the election in May 2002, the Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern Party became the majority party with 21 of the 42 seats with one seat remaining vacant.
		The principal centres of population are Kidderminster, Stourport-on-Severn and Bewdley.
		The operation of Cleansing Services is deemed to fall within the remit of the Community Health and Safety portfolio, whilst the strategic development of the recycling and waste minimisation policy is the responsibility of the Community Life portfolio, because it is this portfolio that is responsible for the operation of the Environmental Health Division’s work.
	www.audit-commission.gov.uk /reports/accessible.asp?ProdID=B6CD0A9F-4FE9-4865-B2DD-9318FEA5D5FD (8668 words)

	WYRE FOREST: Dr Richard Taylor (Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern) - This Is Worcestershire archive
		THE downgrading of Kidderminster Hospital has been a disaster for the whole county and the opening of the new hospital, although improving the buildings for Worcester residents, will not improve access to health care.
		This would be a welcome first move but I remain determined to restore more emergency services to Kidderminster, in partnership with Worcester, to re-establish the fairness and equality of access that exists in other areas.
		If it goes to appeal and then to a public inquiry I will fight it all the way on the grounds that adverse health risks can never be totally excluded and that the inevitable traffic problems have not been accurately forecast.
	archive.thisisworcestershire.co.uk /2001/05/25/324906.html (768 words)

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		That is a myth, the actual order was for pregnant prisoners to be handcuffed on the way to hospital but the press changed it to pregnant prisoners being shckled whilst in labour.
		Apparantly all british newspapers have a solicitors letter from Ann Widdecombe threatening to sue if they repeat the story, but because the misconception is so widespread it still gets repeated on TV and radio a lot.
		Well, but on the way to the hospital is almost as bad.
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