{"id":5380,"date":"2008-04-30T23:00:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T22:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moomango.co.uk\/htb\/?p=5380"},"modified":"2013-08-30T10:03:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T10:03:27","slug":"i-base-funding-withdrawn-urgent-request-for-letters-of-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/5380","title":{"rendered":"i-Base funding withdrawn: urgent request for letters of support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As this issue of HTB went to press we learned that the London Health Commissioners have withdrawn funding for all i-Base projects.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the last two years we have received \u00a350k (just under 20% of our annual budget) towards the treatment phoneline and information services, adherence support publications (the BHIVA-recommended treatment passport) and treatment workshops.<\/p>\n<p>Public funding stabilised the project sufficiently to continue to provide HIV Treatment Bulletin and the five i-Base treatment guides free to all individuals and clinics, and to run additional treatment workshops with community groups.<\/p>\n<p>In retendering for services the London Commissioners declined to tender for any existing project and refuses to contribute towards the costs of any i-Base services&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No publications, no treatment workshops, no advocacy training, no phoneline support, no email services, no online Q&amp;A services, no translations of treatment publications, no website.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The i-Base phoneline has been provided expert peer-advocacy support for over five years, and have the cumulative experience from having spoken to thousands of individual patients.<\/li>\n<li>Over the last two years the UK-CAB has developed into a representative network of advocates and peer advocates.<\/li>\n<li>We have distributed thousands of treatment guides &#8211; ordered by request from clinics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The commissioners think that no patients or clinics in London want or need these services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We think this is unfair and is not reflective of the needs of London patients and clinics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you use or have used i-Base services as a London patient or clinic, please email letters of support to:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:ray.Appleby@kc-pct.nhs.uk\">ray.appleby@kc-pct.nhs.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:hong.tan@londonscg.nhs.uk\">hong.tan@londonscg.nhs.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It would help us if you could copy any correspondence to:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:simon.collins@i-Base.org.uk\">simon.collins@i-Base.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>i-Base employs three full-time and four part-time staff for all our projects. Five of the seven staff are HIV-positive. The funding decision, for which we are told there is no appeal, threatens these posts and the services we provide.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your support&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As this issue of HTB went to press we learned that the London Health Commissioners have withdrawn funding for all i-Base projects. For the last two years we have received \u00a350k (just under 20% of our annual budget) towards the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}