Petition to bring back dedicated military hospitals and provide adequate facilities for members of the Armed Forces who are injured or disabled in the course of their duties

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I received this from a friend on active duty.

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Please take one or two minutes to fill out the Downing Street Petition on behalf of our injured soldiers, bearing in mind we all know what the damage of war can do.

Our comrades are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with horrific injuries to a health care situation that is a joke.

With our troops being deployed in greater numbers we must go back to the dedicated care that they fully deserve - so please lend your support to the petition to the Prime Minister on the Downing Street Petition Web Site. The petition is:

'We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to bring back dedicated Military Hospitals to provide adequate facilities (non NHS) for members of the Armed Forces who are injured or disabled in the course of their duties.'

Petition link

Thank you very much.

I agree, and will check out the link now.

lol at fio

You are right rollon but opening military hospitals is a backward step.

highyl unilieky to happen anwyay as defence cuts continue
they shut one in porsmouth last week
hoep against hope

Military docs were so crap coping with dh that he has now transfered to my GP practice.

The 'care' he had with them was neglegent. They deserve better.

amen to saint martian
hwo is that stud miffuin

Er no not as far as I remember.

fiofio you are thinking of blackadder

We have had a few military docs in our dept- yes the army/ navy were paying their salaries, and of course they looked after the general public while they were with us, BUT they were with us for training that the army couldn't provide, not for any other reason. They had fixed leave requirements, which we just had to fit in with whether it was convenient or not (and yes, the army did pay for a locum, but a locum to cover for a week or two is far inferior to someone we know/ trust, and knows how our dept works). There was also the attitude to the nurses- civilians don't take too kindly to being ordered about by the doctors .

Then there's the patients from the forces(and here I'm NOT talking about people who have been injured in action- AFAIK, we haven't had any).Won't tolerate the waiting lists that Joe public has to put up with, want everything done yesterday, and you CANNOT, and I mean CANNOT get hold of past records from the forces, even if it is really important to that patient's care.

So, treat them all in Forces hospitals, or put up with the same treatment that everyone else has- whichisn't actually all that bad!

Interesting to read it from an NHS point of view. I worked in an MDHU and could write totally the opposite. We were always supernummery so when we went on military courses or on deployment it shouldn't have effected the off duty too much.

As for military doctors ordering nursing staff around - really! Tell them to wind their necks in . I did work for a short spell in a military hospital and any doctor who came on to my ward was a guest and certainly did not order my staff around.

They don't do it for very long! I think it's to do with being surgeons, as well!

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