National Health Action Party....

Never noticed this before, Anno.
I am a member and have been since it started. One of the founders, Dr Taylor, was an MP as an independent.
It might appear to be single issue, but it's an important issue. Dr Irvine is standing in the European elections, as are others. Ifthey get enough money, there will be a candidate to stand in Yorkshire, so I am now going to be a paid member, instead of just a member in name only.
Clive Peedell is going to stand against Cameron in 2015.
If doctors can be trusted to run the finances in the NHS, I do not see why they cannot be trusted to run the economy as well as Cameron and his millionaire cronies.

But millions of doctors do not want to be dealing with finances. My OH and all his colleagues get/got thoroughly fed up with it, having trained in medicine and not finance. It is reasonable that doctors should be consulted about priorities based on what they see happening on the ground, but they should not be responsible for commissioning or budget management as this is not their area of expertise. They truly have quite enough to do delivering medical care!

Therefore you should vote for a party that keeps the NHS as it was before the CCGs came in, the NHA party.
Clive Peedell will not be a brain surgeon if he becomes an MP. Neither will Dr Irvine. She is the one who organised saving the Lewisham Hospital. Then Hunt decided to try and move the goalposts. The goalposts will be decided on this Wednesday, I think.
If you vote for the status quo, you will be voting for doctors to run finances, or pay more out of their money to find someone who can.

I don't trust dctors to deal with the finances in the NHS. At least I don't trust the ones I'm registered with.

So who do you trust, Tegan?

The Care Bill, Health and Social Care, is being discuussed in parliament at the moment.
I have not been able to count the number of MPs on the opposition benches, but there are fewer than 20 on the government benches.

They are talking about us not being a burden at the moment.

I don't trust anyone any more, especially since our doctors decided to close down our village surgery with no consultation with the patients.

I find this idea bizarre.

Well I've taken myself off the licencensed to practice list. I'm still registered though.
I never liked feeling with finance, the only thing I know what to do with money is spend it!

Which idea, roses?

That's a problem, Tegan, because GPs are private companies, aren't they?
Does the NHS not have an obligation to have a surgery within a certain distance of all people? What size is your village?
I know when my elder son was a year old I had to drag him in the snow to the next village to see the doctor - couldn't push as the snow was too deep - but that was only two miles there, and two miles back.
Do you have a local minibus to take the villagers to the nearest surgery?

6 miles to the surgery.We feel that we've been stabbed in the back. I don't know what their obligations are but I do know that they really didn't want to keep the place open. Public meeting in a couple of weeks. Watch this space. I worked for them for 20 years so am taking it quite personally .

Tegan - that's disgraceful. My mum lives 6 miles away from the nearest town and she - and many others - would be absolutely at a loss if the village surgery closed. What about very elderly or sick people who don't have access to a car or who are not able to drive?

Article has now appeared in a local paper; seems that what was going to be a cut and dried closure [already decided before we were informed] will be fought to the end. The fact is they thought they could just close it down without any fuss because the people who will be most affected are the sick and the elderly. Mice can roar sometimes methinks....

It does worry me that they are gearing up for getting rid of as much responsibility as they can (the government - any of them) for the NHS. It seems to me that the NHS achieved much more and was more patient orientated before we 'progressed' to the stage where we are at now. If all these changes were made in the various branches of the NHS in order to give patients a better service, why is the outcome the opposite of that stated goal?

Whenever something happens it seems that another organisation is responsible; in this case it's 'NHS England' that are the culprits. Who are NHS England? Circumlocution at it's best [worst] I reckon.

NHS England is the old NHS. It's just that Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own systems and are now organised differently.

One thing that has not been noticed is the new US/EU trade agreement, which when it goes through in November, I think it is, will allow all the US and European private healthcare companies to bid to take over our NHS. If the CCGs object they can be sued for profits that they could have made out of the system. Nice, eh?

The Tory party have their members in all the top places, NHS England, Nice, and the CQC.

It's NHS England that have been blamed for the closure of our village surgery; none of us knew who NHS England were . Meeting tonight re closure at the village hall . Dreading it.

Was sent this by the NHA.
Thought a DM reader would have flagged it up today, but cannot find anything about it on here.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2603385/Plan-shut-hospital-wards-threatens-new-wave-A-E-closures-break-system.html

nhap.org/nhs-watchdog-chief-goes-private-for-hip-operation-avoiding-the-three-month-wait-patients-face-in-hospitals-hes-meant-to-be-improving/

Look what I've just found out today.
What do you think about this?

www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/kailash-chand/moment-of-honesty-is-required-new-labour-began-dismantling-of-our-nhs

A brilliant article about the NHS and what is happening to it.

nhap.us7.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=937c3e62bc24fa37708920cc9&id=d1dbba6c6d&e=716bee6853

Apparently the NHA has more influence on twitter than Jeremy Hunt.

Update on hospital closures.
blog.38degrees.org.uk/2014/05/07/hospital-closure-clause-we-did-it/
For those of you who think that petitions do not work, this one has!

The NHS has been crassly underfunded since Thatcher, because the Tory's have never believed in its concept.