NHS being privatised

keepournhspublic.com/blog/press-release-nhs-watchdog-gagged-as-staff-levels-plummet/

This should surely be illegal.

keepournhspublic.com/uncategorised/nhs-bill-take-it-to-your-union/

Self explanatory link, I think.

"These are not alarmist stories being spread by campaigners. Even the Conservative MP and doctor Sarah Wollaston, who chairs the Health Select Committee, knows about the brain drain – her daughter has left the NHS for Australia. Now she, her husband and eight of their friends work in a hospital where they have yet to meet an Australian junior doctor in the casualty department. “It is staffed almost entirely by British-trained junior doctors,” Wollaston wrote this week."

This is a Tory MP talking. She is a GP and chair of the Health Select Committee.
Even her family do not want to work under the system that her government has set up.
I hope everyone sees the irony.

glynismillward189.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/and-so-it-begins/

This is about mental health and who is going to be responsible for it now.
Handing something else over to the US.

I thought so, too, trisher.
Hadn't realised until today that junior doctors only earn £24,000, and the Tories are thinking of reducing that. No wonder they are upset and leaving in droves. As the writer said, an MP without any qualifications earns £50,000 more.

Anyone hear the doctor in the audience on Question Time? Made some great points and showed how junior doctors are really upset about what this government is doing. The NHS is not safe in this government's hands.

www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/david-wrigley-caroline-molloy/5-reasons-addenbrookes-really-%E2%80%98failed%E2%80%99-%E2%80%93-and-what-it-means-for-

Over 41,000 signatures on the parliament petition now.
12,000+ in the last hour.

Over 75,000 signatures on the change.org petition already, in just over a day. I hope they have all signed up to the parliament one too.

This is brilliant. After Jeremy Hunt posed for a selfie in scrubs, a doctor set up imimworkjeremy so other doctors could send photos to show him they were not shirkers.

www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jul/20/iminworkjeremy-doctors-working-weekend-selfies-open-letters-jeremy-hunt-nhs

Not in Denmark, anyway.
There is another petition started on the government petition website.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/104334

100, 000 signatures gets a response. Possibly not the response we want, but it'll be a start.

Signed. Honestly this is what I mean about getting rid if government interference! I bet you don't get this in some of the other countries we've looked at

The petition was actually started by the NHS less than a day ago, so if you think you've already signed it, you have probably signed something similar, but not this one.

www.change.org/p/david-cameron-mp-resignation-or-removal-of-jeremy-hunt-mp-as-secretary-of-state-for-health?recruiter=61282593&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink

Another petition to sign. He never talks to health professionals. The Kings Fund used to be on his side, but I never see anything backing him up now.

BUM can't get to grips with this b.....y tablet!!!

As I was saying before being rudely interrupted.

What I think is that we should fight this privatisation with everything we can. But what I fear is that we will end up with the worst of all world's, because chipping away at the public part without seeming to have a grand overview like the Dutch or Germans means we will end up like New Zealand.

Looking at the varios health systems

As regards JC.
I suppose it could be said that as Labour are not in power anyway, JC could be the leader up until nearer the next election.
But they would still need to find a leader to take them through the election, nearer the time.

I thought I would add this link. As I realised that even if the NHS has an insurance scheme, that does not mean that it would be privatised.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_health_insurance

butnhs.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/bdaaczkigaae8jb.jpg

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2015/jul/17/jeremy-hunt-nhs-henry-viii-monasteries

An interesting idea from Giles Fraser.
Went to the Magna Carta exhibition today. My grandson asked the woman showing us in if John was a bad king. She said he was but she thought Henry Vlll much worse because of what he did to the country.

It was on Channel4 news last night. Very worrying. I would not want a taxi to turn up if I rang 111.

Private sector Ambulance Services have been taking NHS contracts for a few years now they have few paramedics and their training leaves a lot to be desired. They do the job on the cheap and no one seems to of noticed them creeping in.

I agree Iam64. Definitely pushing me towards JC. At least he'll put up a defence and make people aware of what's happening rather than letting the Conservatives slip the privatisation of the NHS in quietly.

This is pushing me towards voting for Jeremy Corbyn, something I onestly hadn't thought I'd when he threw his hat in the ring (so to speak) Before anyone tells me JC as leader won't stop the tory plans, I know that but I'm increasingly sure we need a strong opposition that represents the poor and vulnerable along with "ordinary hard working families"

www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jul/16/jeremy-hunt-raises-doubts-about-long-term-future-of-free-nhs

Jeremy Hunt has come out in the open now.