Petition of 400,000 to save NHS hits Lansley


1:38 pm - May 31st 2011

by Sunny Hundal    


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Campaigners from 38 Degrees delivered a petition with over 400,000 signatures to the Department of Health today.

The petition was delivered as the ‘listening period’ on the NHS proposals comes to an end today.

The petition read:

To the Coalition government,
Our NHS is precious – we won’t forgive you if you ruin it

* Don’t break up our health service and hand it to private healthcare companies
* Listen to the real experts – doctors, nurses and patients – when they give warnings about these plans
* Don’t rush through massive changes without testing them properly first
* Protect patient care – don’t cut beds, wards, doctors or nurses

The delegation included NHS staff, and the boxes with the petition were delivered on a stretcher, to illustrate that the Health and Social Care Bill is sending the NHS into critical condition.


(photos by 38 Degrees)

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Reader comments


1. Ian

I wonder what proportion of the 400,000 signatures were NHS staff, compared to people who are ‘just’ users of the health service?

2. Mr S. Pill

Do NHS staff not use the NHS then?

3. Ian

Yes, which is why I made the point of ‘just’. I am wondering just how exercised the general public really are over this.

4. Skooter

I signed the petition and have no involvement with the NHS. For many with a social conscience it is just the right thing to do! If you are a free Market profiteer willing to pray on the poor and vulnerable then i guess you will have different view?

5. the a&e charge nurse

[3] “I am wondering just how exercised the general public really are over this” – the public are largely ignorant (as indeed are some politicians) regarding the longer term consequences of Lansley’s plan to privatise, sorry I mean liberate the NHS.

There is a marvelous letter deconstructing the tory myths on the NHS here;
http://abetternhs.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/more-tory-nhs-myths/

Don’t forget, the true intention of Lansley’s bill is obscured by weasel wording
http://www.badmed.net/bad-medicine-blog/2011/03/secret-nail-nhs-coffin.html

But the public will eventually become more “exercised” when this type of situation arises – remember the queues for an NHS dentist?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6194555.stm


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