April 1st 2013 - Sad day in history

Sutent · April 2013

<p class="MsoNormal">Today is a very sad day in the history of this country. The welfare cuts are enough to make your blood boil at the injustice of it, but the Health and Social bill that has been implemented from today is also very sad. I have a particular interest in this as I am Doctor in the NHS treating patients with cancer. I have been doing this for over 10 years now. One of the biggest challenges we have with cancer is late diagnosis due to late presentation and incorrect diagnosis. By allowing private companies now to be allowed to perform and tender for contracts with the local commission groups (PCTs have been dismantled) the quality of care will go down as cost is the driving factor. I have had personal experience with private companies taking over NHS contracts and the I have seen countless disasters with no one accountable. At least currently we have some hold of who is doing what in North East London but that will soon change. Many of the Tories are on the board of United Health who will bid for many of these contracts and are set to make a fair bit. I could go on for ages regarding this but I would like to apologise to you all for letting you down. Despite trying everything to get the attention of the British public in 2010/2011 we failed to prevent this bill going through only managing to get some minor amendments made. The BMA and other medical colleges were not strong enough to stop the Tories pushing this through. This bill all started when Lansley was playing cricket in Kent in 2006 and collapsed with a stroke. He is arrogantly defiant in his ideas but his successor has kept undercover but is just as blue. I really hope this can be reversed but I suspect this is the beginning of the end of the NHS. </p>

checkski · April 2013

<P>What a devastating post, from an authoritative source. All I can do is to urge you all to sign one of the many petitions, and to join the day of action on May 18th. Commissar 17, of fond memory on these boards, told me yesterday he thought we were going to win, and he is deeply involved in the campaign. I hope he is right. He also told me that there is another day of action before the 18th, which sounded like a sort of Red Nose Day, so I think I'll skip that one. I rather diffidently took some petition sheets however, a few weeks ago, and have had people of all sorts queuing up to sign. I do hope we win.</P>

nick_m · April 2013

<a href="http://www.monbiot.com/2013/04/01/the-spark-of-hope/">http://www.monbiot.com/2013/04/01/the-spark-of-hope/</a>;

delaware1 · April 2013

<P><A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/01/latest-cure-nhs-kill-patient">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/01/latest-cure-nhs-kill-patient</A></P>; <P> </P> <P> </P>

krappyrubsnif · April 2013

One thing we can surely do is monitor closely the behaviour of the local commissioning group and try to hold it to account where private gain is supplanting public good. Are we supinely going to lie down and let them take this away from us? From many local actions great public benefit can be built. I feel very strongly about this as I owe my life to the NHS, health is worth more than any amount of money.

emine · April 2013

<div>I like this piece, because it's not preaching to the converted:</div><div><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9962195/NHS-reforms-From-today-the-Coalition-has-put-the-NHS-up-for-grabs.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9962195/NHS-reforms-From-today-the-Coalition-has-put-the-NHS-up-for-grabs.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>I think most decent Conservative voters would be appalled if they knew what was going on. </div>

andy · April 2013

are there open data sets to track? local authorities have to publish pretty much everything down to where they buy their pencils.

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