Scroll down this page for contact details:
1:  MPs
2:  Contact members of the House of Lords who are associated with your area or subject of interest
3:  Councillors
4:  Council Health and Wellbeing Board / Health Scrutiny Committee
5:  Clinical Commissioning Groups
6:  Healthwatch
7:  Local health campaign groups
8:  National organisations

1:

Contact your local MP 

Find the 2024 constituencies, names and email addresses of MPs in the North East region here

Alternatively, you can very easily contact your MP (plus your local Councillors) by adding your postcode to the “Write to Them” search page here

Another option is to go to the UK Parliament page here – enter your postcode, and this will take you to the email address, parliamentary and constituency address and website address of your MP

Guidance on writing to the House of Commons and House of Lords is here

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Contact members of the House of Lords who are associated with your area or subject of interest

Click the “Write to Them” search page here and follow the links!

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Contact your local councillors

The email addresses of all Councillors in the NE region are posted here (updated September 2021): north-east-councillors-email-addresses-sept-2021

Alternatively, you can very easily contact your local Councillors (plus your MP) by adding your postcode to the “Write to Them” search page here

A final option – you can find the email addresses of your local Councillors by adding your postcode to the search page here  This will take you to the Council website. 

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Contact your Council Health and Wellbeing Board / Health Scrutiny Committee

The email addresses of Councillors sitting on Health and Wellbeing Boards / Health Scrutiny Committees are posted here:  northeasthwandscrutiny

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Contact your local Clinical Commissioning Group

Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) commission most of the hospital and community NHS services in the local areas for which they are responsible. Commissioning involves deciding what services are needed, and ensuring that they are provided. CCGs are overseen by NHS England.

Find the addresses, websites, email addresses and telephone numbers of CCGs in the region – double click here: north-east-CCGs-contact-addresses Sept 2020

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Contact your local Healthwatch

Healthwatch is a national organisation which operates on a regional level. It is set up to give patients a more powerful voice in the planning and delivery of health and social care services. The role of Healthwatch is to find out what people want, monitor local services and use their powers to hold health and social care providers to account.

Find the addresses, websites, email addresses and telephone numbers of Healthwatch organisations in the region – double click here: North East Healthwatch contact addresses

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Links to local health campaign groups…..

Keep Our NHS Public North East (KONPNE) 

https://konpnortheast.com  

https://www.facebook.com/NHSPublicNorthEast  

https://twitter.com/KONPNorthEast

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Save South Tyneside Hospital Campaign         www.savesouthtynesidehospital.org          https://www.facebook.com/SaveSouthTynesideHospital

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…..and national organisations

Keep Our NHS Public (National Organisation)       https://keepournhspublic.com

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Health Campaigns Together       http://www.healthcampaignstogether.com

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SOS NHS      https://sosnhs.org/

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999 Call for the NHS       http://999callfornhs.org.uk

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> The KONP 2020 Vision for Healthcare
Click here 
> Read the latest Health Campaigns Together newspaper and download The Lowdown bulletin; catch up on local and national news and developments.  
Click  here
> Check out The Lowdown – superb, free, online health campaigning journal
Click here
> And sign up to The Lowdown – free and direct to your inbox every two weeks
Click here
> Join The Peoples Assembly. 
The People’s Assembly is all about you. Your activism, your campaigns, your demonstrations and your events. Join the Peoples Assembly and become a member today – if you do, you can be part of the local People’s Assembly group, meeting like minded people and being part of making change in your own community.
Click here for the national Peoples Assembly website and here for the North East Peoples Assembly facebook page
> Click here for the “We Own It” campaign website re the NHS and click here for the facebook page
KONPNE very often campaigns in association with the Campaign organisation “We Own It” – who are on Zoom every Thursday at 12.30. This is a fantastic way to find out the latest information on WOI health campaigns AND ALSO to hear more, generally, about the case for public ownership. so

CLICK HERE

to sign up for the regular “We Own It” newletter – this will contain information about the Zoom meetings held on Thursdays
> Read and circulate issues of “NHS Staff Voices”, the newsletter for staff working in our health and care servicess
NHS Staff Voices 6   
Find out more about NHS Staff Voices here and check out the NHS Voices facebook page here
> See the Care and Support Workers Organise facebook page here
> Join “NHS Workers Say NO! to Public Sector pay inequality”
Click here for the facebook page
> Click here, and find out more about the SOS NHS coalition of pro-NHS organisations and campaign groups, and click here for information and reports on recent actions in the North East
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CLICK HERE for previous campaign links