Yes I know orangerevel has beaten me to it and this is her thread to push for our responses on the extraordinarily poorly handled consultation on the NHS mandate, which closes tomorrow and which is a transparent move towards privitisation.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2512051-To-ask-how-you-feel-about-the-NHS
But this is sooo urgent that I fel justified in making a TAAT to continue to raise awareness. The consultation document links are in the link above. I will put them in at the end of this post for those who CBA to click through.
The consultation document is very very poorly written. Completely in political spin management type speak that is meaningless when you parse through it to work out what is actually being said. As a senior clinician in the NHS it made me so furious that I felt sick, because I have the joy of dealing with this sort of bullshit day in and day out.
It promises nothing and threatens to further reduce what services are provided by the NHS. There is no mention of restoring the secretary of states for health's legal duty to provide services (removed in the 2012 Act). There is no mention of maintaining safe staffing levels (and there are hints of further plans that will further impact on frontline staff's time to do their job of caring for patients). There is bare faced hypocrisy as public health funding has been slashed.
Please take 30 mins out of your day to respond, even just to put n the forms that this is not acceptable - NHS England need to extend the consultation period and adequately publicise the process; that they need to write the document in meaningful English and aims and objectives that are real and measurable and anything that indicates your feelings about keeping the NHS from being sold off and degraded into a USA model based insurance system? Because that's the model that's coming - not any of the European insurance based models that can and do deliver a part-private service with good health outcomes in an affordable way...
consultation page
our NHS sample response