Letter from a real doctor not a spin doctor.

Mr Hunt

Yesterday Virgin were handed a £700 million pound contract for 200 various NHS services in the south west of the UK.

At the same time, you gave a speech saying that we need to look at the USA for inspiration when it comes to how to manage the NHS. (Despite the fact that they spend double on their health care and have much worse outcomes than the NHS does, especially for the poor)

So can you clarify please.

Are you still saying that the NHS is not being privatised? Because evidence suggests it is.

And do you still stand by your previous ideological oposition to the NHS as shown by:
1) A book you co-authored in 2005 which called for the 'denationalisation' of the NHS
2) As Culture Secretary you tried to stop any mention of the NHS in the Olympic ceremony?

I know that you have since said that you have changed your mind and that you fully support the NHS ( as shown by.....welll...the best evidence for your support is by your wearing of the NHS badge) but......... its just that actions speak louder than words.

I am afraid that I find it hard to believe what you are saying when it comes to your support of a nationalised NHS free at the point of care run for patients and not profits.

So please just be fair to the staff and patients. As I keep asking my toddler, please just tell the truth. If my nine year old and seven year old can tell the truth, please can you?

At least then we would know where we stand.

regards

Rob (A worried A&E Dr)

​https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/11/virgin-care-700m-contract-200-nhs-social-care-services-bath-somerset

I wanted to send you this message today to thank you and update you on our election campaigns. But it is important that I mention the events of the last few days.

Let me make it clear that Labour is implacably opposed to any form of racism, including anti-Semitism, and I will personally ensure that Labour introduces measures to take tough action on this matter.

Next Thursday there are vital elections.

Labour activists across the UK are working hard to elect our candidates and I want to thank every one of you that is knocking on doors, making phone calls and delivering leaflets. We rely on you and you make a huge difference. Thank you.

Voters have a choice to make. Only Labour is on the side of the majority.

Over the last few months more and more people are seeing the broken promises of this Prime Minister who simply can't be trusted. He can't be trusted when it comes to tax, he can't be trusted with strategic industries like steel and he can't be trusted to balance the books fairly.

Labour is standing up, not standing by.

We have run a strong election campaign everywhere. Over the last few weeks we have campaigned on housing and education, health, crime and policing, and the economy. I have been in our nations and regions taking our message to the voters. Our activists have knocked on millions of doors.

In London, David Cameron's candidate has been blanketing voters with leaflets, adverts and press releases about the "Corbyn-Khan experiment". David Cameron even called Londoners "lab rats".

More and more people in all parts of the UK are seeing our message of balancing the budget fairly, investing in public services and delivering a better life for all. Over the coming months I look forward to outlining my agenda for change.

Thank you again for being part of this party as we campaign for a fairer and better life for everyone.

Jeremy Corbyn
Leader of the Labour Party

People of England, Monday April 25, 2016.

Good evening once again.

I find myself posting to you on the verge of an important yet regrettable day. Tomorrow and Wednesday, there will be a full walk out by junior doctors in England between 8AM and 5PM. This is in protest of an unfair and unsafe contract that the government decided to impose on them.

I'm sat in clinic in this picture, but tomorrow I won't be there. I'll be in my consultant greens, carrying the crash bleep and manning the acute assessment unit.

Let me make one thing very clear.

Emergency service in hospitals will go on as usual. Consultants, non-training grade doctors supported by nurses, pharmacists, clinical support workers and other health professionals will ensure that you will receive emergency care should you require it.

At our hospital, covering acute medicine alone, will be a team of consultant physicians with over 150 years of medical experience combined. We have full confidence that you will continue to have world class care over the next two days.

If you should fall ill, please do not be hesitant to seek help. Hospitals, GP surgeries, Urgent Care Centres and NHS 111 will be on hand like we are everyday to help you. Please help spread this message by sharing or tweeting.

To my junior doctor colleagues, we have your back so you can fight the good fight, take this opportunity to show the public your passion, and to show Mr Hunt and the Government how wrong they are.

Good luck, and see you on the other side.

Dr Philip Lee
Consultant Physician in Acute Medicine and Care of the Elderly

Dear Public

Please give me 3 minutes of your time to read this letter, which explains what is really going on with the junior doctor strike and what it is all about.

I am really worried that people are believing the deceit and spin from the government and their cronies in the press. But the truth of the matter is so different to what they have been saying. Please read this short message from someone on the front line who knows the truth:

1.No one wants a strike. Especially not our junior doctors. They have promised to call off the strike if the government stop imposition of a contract which is not safe for patients and not fair for doctors. The government have refused and are putting political ideology in front of patient care. They could stop the strike now with one phone call.

2. Consultants and other senior doctors will be covering, so no harm should come to our patients because of the strike. The vast majority of senior doctors including myself support our juniors. We know why they are striking - to protect our NHS in the longer term.

3. Operations and clinics will be delayed and that is awful for those affected. But 1000s more operations have been delayed this years because of a bed crisis and underfunding, compared to the delays to elective care caused by the strikes.

4. The juniors are not striking because of pay - but because the new contract discriminates against female doctors, discriminate against those who work in specialities delivering care outside of 9-5 and will lead to an exodus of doctors from the NHS. It will make weekend emergency cover much harder to deliver because of a lack of doctors and patients will suffer.

5. Scotland and Wales NHS know this to be the case and are thus not going down this route of these changes of their Junior Doctors' contracts.

6. The junior doctor crisis is already here. Because of the way they are being treated, many are leaving the NHS. Rota gaps are now very common and patients are being put at risk because of this. Indeed an A&E in Lancashire had to downgrade from a full A&E at night as there was not enough junior doctors to staff the A&E department 24/7.

7. The biggest threat to the NHS is what happens when our disillusioned and depressed juniors decide to up sticks and leave their jobs when they rotate in August. We can cope with a short strike; we can't cope with an exodus of junior doctors in August.

8. We have 3 days till the strike starts. 3 days till we lose the goodwill of 54,000 junior doctors. Without this goodwill we cannot care for our patients as well as we do. Please email/write to your government MPs to put pressure on Hunt and Cameron to change their minds before it is too late. Please join demonstrations. Please help us change their minds.

We can only hope that even though they may not listen to NHS staff on the front line who know what is happening, they may listen to their voters.

This is the truth as I see it. I am someone who will not be personally affected by a new contract, but someone who cares passionately about his staff, his patients and the NHS.

Please share and tweet so that people know the truth.

Rob
(A very concerned A&E consultant)

The British Tory party are the worst kind of cancer; they have spread to every bit of this country and have damaged the infra-structure so badly it will take years to recover and even longer to eradicate. Every generation has been affected and will carry the scars for a lifetime.

The Tories have now made it law that companies can no longer follow an ethical and humanitarian stand.

Some companies will be forced to do business with Israeli firms that are deliberately and steadily eradicating a whole nation.

These companies are part of the occupation of Palestine. They stand by while the Palestinian people are forced to leave their homes; they stand back as children are shot. And this government want our companies such as the Co-op to do business with them or be prosecuted.

I don’t expect anything different from the Tories. After all they are quite happy to starve, displace and kill off their own people.

I however expect better from anyone in the Labour Party.

One such person is Luke Akehurst.

Not only is he chairman of Labour First he is also part of a group called the Friends Of Israel.

He often speaks at their conference but he actually works for BICOM Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM).

This company also makes substantial donations to the Conservative party. {Definitely a conflict of interest there}

Luke Akehurst is not only a chairman of Labour First he is also a supporter of Progress and an anti-Corbyn promoter.

He is also supported in his effort to become a member of the NEC, by Michael Dugher {the person who is tipped to challenge Jeremy in a leadership contest if Labour doesn’t do well in the May elections}.

Do we really want people like this in the NEC, a body which makes policy for the Labour party?

He is a part of the disease that the Tories are trying to infect the Labour Party with.

We need to be letting our CLPs know that people like him do not belong in Labour.

The power is in our hands let’s use it to eradicate the cancer in the Labour party. So use your power of veto and use your vote to put people into the NEC who share a true social ideology and that is not Luke Akehurst.

From a group of concerned Labour members and voters