This meeting will take place on Saturday March 17th at 2.00pm - Adult Education Centre, Wellington Street, Leicester.
The speakers will be - Jon Ashworth MP, John Lister London Health Emergency, and Dr Louise Irvine GP. Its the end of the English NHS unless we all fight for it.
The doctors, nurses, midwives, physiotherapists and others are opposed.
The Royal college of Nurses, the Royal College of Midwives, the Royal College of GP's, the Royal College of Radiologists, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, the British Medical Association, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, and the Faculty of Public Health are all opposed to the Bill.
Jon Ashworth MP has called a public meeting to discuss the threat posed by the Government's plans for the NHS. It is essential that the public understand why these plans threaten the future of the NHS. Please let others know about the meeting and persuade them to attend.
Abolition of a National Health Service.
We have become accustomed to free access to health care but Parliament is about to pass a bill abolishing our National Health Service. There will no longer be a National Health Service and no one will have legal or overall responsibility for meeting all our health care needs. The care you are entitled to may depend on how much you are able to pay. Companies and Corporations will deliver our health care.
Privatisation means that we will have to pay.
Entitlement to long-term care and NHS dentistry has already been replaced by charges and private insurance. If the Bill is passed, services to the ill and Ambulance, Dental, Child, Pregnancy, Mental Health, Sexual Health Immunisation, Cancer and Disease Screening services will no longer have to be provided to all residents in England free of charge. In future you may be required to pay for these services and to buy health insurance to cover the cost.
Profits will come before our care.
The Bill if passed will allow private companies to decide what care you are entitled to and whether you need to pay for it. Their priority is to make money for their shareholders, so the focus will be on profits, not patients.
Doctors will no longer be able to make decisions on our behalf.
Doctors will not have the final say in your care. Profit-making private health care companies, not doctors, will decide what care you can receive, where you receive it or whether you receive it at all.
England will fall behind Wales and Scotland.
Wales and Scot;and will continue to provide all medical care free of charge and on the basis of need. If the Bill is passed, access to health care in England will be the worst in the UK. This is because the Bill repeals a legal right to the same services as those provided by the NHS in Scotland and Wales.
Dont see the TUC doing anything for pensioners. The National Pensioners Convention is one of the few Organisations acting on behalf of older people and trying to do something about the current situations that are facing pensioners today. The Unions do little or nothing to help its older members.
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