NHS

Maybe those who voted for this government and those who have Conservative MPs should be writing to Cameron, Hunt and their MP warning them that this isn't acceptable and telling them they will not support the party if this goes ahead. (But I'm not holding my breath!)

It's the same with the so called 24/7 GP system they keep talking about. I've seen GPs at all hours of the day and night. OK not necessarily from my practice but I still saw a doctor and received treatment and/or was sent to A and E. I don't feel I have to pay into an insurance (as advertised on TV) in order to get GP support.

This government is forcing HUGE NHS cuts - £2.3bn this year. With NO publicity - not a whisper in the news, and NHS bosses keeping very quiet since their STP plans have to show how they are 'improving' services!

North East London area (B&D, Havering, Redbridge, TH, Hackney, Newham) plan £185m cuts to services this year. At least one A&E service already scheduled to close so making extra long journeys to A&E. The hospital will lose all the back-up services, doctors won't want to work there, hospital will be run down ...

We need a NHS watch that details what is happening in your particular Trust etc.

Since my mother has been a regular outpatient for eye problems, the treatment has been outsourced to a local private hospital, and is definitely not an improvement. Once what was done in the local NHS hospital and more than adequate - now the profit is ending up in someone's pocket. Likewise my DHs back treatment. I resent my taxes being used to line someone's pocket from profit, I want it to be ploughed back into the NHS.

People don't realise how it's being privatised because it's being done so quietly and is slipping under the radar. Pushing the junior doctors into strike action is part of it. The government hoped that people would turn against the junior doctors and force them to settle. This didn't happen because most of us would rather not be treated by doctors who are mentally and physically exhausted. As for the seven day NHS both myself and my husband have been treated at the weekends and in the middle of the night. I even had a baby on Christmas Day. So, regardless of what the government say, the NHS is available 24/7 365 days of the year.

If the government want clinics to run on a Saturday and Sunday then they need to agree with the Consultants and increase the number of junior doctors, nurses and support staff to cover the extra hours.

For anyone who isn't worried about privatisation just look what happened when cleaning was put out to tender. Cleaners hours were cut and they didn't have time to clean as thoroughly as before. I remember a time when the wards were cleaned properly everyday. That included under the beds and wiping down the bedside cabinets. Now the cleaners do the bare minimum....not because they don't care but because they don't have enough time to do anymore.

My instinct is that it cant be too bad [apart from GP surguries] else people would be jumping up and down.

I simply can't understand why people are not reacting. I am sure that the earnings about privatisation are not being taken seriously. They are getting bamboozled by the propaganda being put out about austerity and the " we are spendingmore " mantra.