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1. Light the White House gold for the month of September to honor pediatric cancer fighters 
Cancer is the Number one killer in children in the world! 7(seven) Kids Die everyday due to cancer in The United States alone.
Show the kids diagnosed With these Horrible diseases That they are Not alone!
Thousands of Hoosiers are uninsured and suffering due to lack of health care. The Affordable Care Act is being implemented by 2014. Indiana has done very little to implement any of the regulations.
Indiana HB 1439 is presently in The Insurance Committee and Indiana SB 0540 is in The Appropriations Committee. Both of these bills are a step forward, but they will die in committee if Hoosiers do not push our legislators in a more positive direction.
Please sign the petition to get health care insurance exchanges established and to expand Medicaid.
Everyone deserves decent health care !
3. Enact: The Moorehead Family Humanity in Healthcare Act of Georgia
This bill is about the reduction of risks and building of trust; it has been written as a means to ensure that Medical Professionals receive crisis management and anger management training.
This bill will also mandate that medical professionals take a Hippocratic Oath once a year, as to combat the often callous nature of some people who work in medicine. This bill also mandates a few other things like: the use of treatment plans, and using respectful language with patients. Our daughter recently lost her life, and most of the medical staff surrounding her at her death were panicked, angry or callous. They had forgotten their medical training because they were not trained on how to handle themselves emotionally in a crisis.
I can't say if she would have lived if her medical staff would have been emotionally in control of themselves, but I can say her odds would have been better. The entire bill can be found online at: http://humanityinhealthcare.wordpress.com/
Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam is making a decision RIGHT NOW that will mean life or death for thousands of young people like us. This petition asks him to support Medicaid Expansion and Reform.
We are young people in New Transitions, an organization of youth 18 - 25 overcoming adversity and instability.
Where we live, young people don’t have parents with health insurance or bank accounts. Among our friends it often takes three or four years to get an associate’s degree. It’s hard to juggle classes when you work multiple part-time jobs.
None of our jobs come with benefits. Private health insurance rates are crazy. Basically, we don’t go to the doctor unless it’s a full-blown emergency. Sometimes it’s too late.
Governor Bill Haslam has the power to change all of that. Under the Affordable Care Act passed by Congress, Tennessee can adopt Medicaid Expansion and Reform to provide insurance for people like us whose income at or near the poverty line.
Medicaid Expansion and Reform will be controversial, even though the federal government will pay 90% of the cost. We need your support. Please join our petition drive. Help us tell Governor Bill Haslam to do what is right for Tennessee.
New Transititions: http://www.newtransitions.org
For more detailed information about Medicaid Expansion and Reform under the Affordable Care Act, see: http://www.kff.org/medicaid/quicktake_aca_medicaid.cfm
The cost of expanding access to health care for Tennessee will be small. To understand why, see http://www.statehealthfacts.org/comparereport.jsp?rep=68&cat=17
Medicaid Expansion and Reform will have a positive effect on the Tennessee Economy. This article in U.S. News and World Report explains why: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2012/07/18/medicaid-expansion-is-a-good-deal-for-states-
5. Make gym membership tax deductible
I feel that gym membership should be tax deductible for many strong reasons.
If you go to gym, you should be more healthy, and visit doctor office less. You would use less health care money. Personally, I am a lot more healthy since I joined a gym.
It would make our country's health, most people don't goto the gym, because of the cost. Having it tax deductible will encourage others to use the gym, and become much healthier.
It would improve our country's heart rate, cholesterol, and would also overcome our many of our populations obesity.
6. Citizens for Public Healthcare
We as citizens of this great nation have grown apart from the ideals that guided this country into it's golden days.
Where once we valued community and mutual progress, we now only value the individual and their doomed quest for personal success.
Therefore I ask you to think of the suffering of your fellow Americans and sacrifice of yourself so that nobody in this country should have to live in fear of medical bills.
7. Tell Governor Perry and Legislators that You Support the Affordable Care Act
Tell Rick Perry and the Texas Legislature that you want the benefit of federally-subsidized in Texas.
Politicians are notoriously focused on promting their and there wealthy patrons best interest but this is worse. Rick Perry's proclamation that Texans will not be allowed to participate in federally-funded healthcare - placing his aspirations to be a Tea Party icon before the interest of Texans, is an act that has the effect of diminishing the welfare of Twxans without healthcare.
Despite years of their governing, Texas remains at the bottom of the bowl when it comes to the education, health, and welfare of Its people. Tell them you have had enough!
Ever placing principles that do not mirror the cross-section of Texas over practical governance, send a message to Rick Perry, his handlers, and your legislators that you want them to represent YOU, not their wealthy patrons and corporate sponsors, that you want govenment of and for the people, and that you expect improvement for the basic welfare of all Texans.
50th place and still proud! Only a fool could carry that off.
How much does it take before we act? It's gonna take more than voting. Sign this petition! Then make your voice heard in your own ways!
8. Politicians should NOT have a better health plan than the America people have
To change the voting requirements for increases to payments for health plans for lawmakers in the house of reps and the senate.
To give the America people the power to vote for raises and to impeach any government branch.
All America should have the same Health Ins.
9. Enhance LGBT Cultural Competence Among Health Care Workers
In recent years, health care policy makers and providers have taken steps to develop initiatives that will advance cultural competence in the medical field.
Evidence that cultural competency improves quality of care and eliminates racial, ethnic, and religious disparities has given health care providers and policy makers the impetus to be more culturally attuned.
Research has shown that a successful provider-patient encounter bolsters patient satisfaction, increases the likelihood that medical instructions will be adhered to, and can be linked to a positive health outcome. As the United States becomes increasingly diverse, it is important that all workers who come into contact with patients are prepared to encounter myriad perspectives regarding medicine and health.
The provider-patient relationship is of such prognostic importance that several states have either proposed or passed legislation mandating that physicians and medical students take courses that increase their sensitivity towards and make them more responsive to the needs of minority patients. In 2005, New Jersey made this training compulsory for physicians who wish to obtain or renew a medical license.
While these measures have undoubtedly been instrumental in fostering positive attitudes towards patient differences, awareness of the unique issues pertinent to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population is scant. In particular, the transgender population is the most likely to experience mistreatment, harassment, and bias in a health care setting. Even in the progressive state of California, the Transgender Law Center reports that its clients encounter discriminatory conduct. Across the country, transgender people are asked inappropriate and unnecessary questions about their genitals, endure slurs and name calling, and are denied the request to be addressed by their preferred name and gender. Some medical providers will even condemn their transgender patients and openly express disgust and hostility.
According to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, the largest compilation of data concerning transgender people to date, 28% of respondents reported being verbally harassed in a medical setting, and 2% reported being physically attacked. Half of all respondents found that their doctors are ignorant of basic tenets of transgender health. Finally, 19% of respondents have been denied treatment altogether, even though fourteen states, including New Jersey, have laws in place that prohibit health care discrimination against transgender and gender non-conforming patients. High profile cases include that of Robert Eads, a female to male transgender with ovarian cancer who died after he was denied treatment by over twenty doctors, and that of Tyra Hunter, a pre-operative transgender woman who died at the scene of a car accident after emergency medical technicians uttered derogatory slurs in references to her genitalia and withdrew medical care.
The impact of marginalization is so powerful that it has ostracized transgender individuals from the medical community entirely. One fourth of survey respondents reported that they postpone care due to the disrespect that they anticipate from providers.
Additionally, it has come to the recent attention of this petition's author that certain NJ medical facilities are in dire need of culturally competent care that caters to the LGBT community, especially the transgender population. In particular, anecdotal evidence concerning the misconduct demonstrated by workers in the psychiatric department of a New Jersey hospital has elucidated the need for reform as soon as possible. Unacceptable behavior reported includes: refusal to comply with a patient's desire to be addressed by a preferred gender, consistently unsympathetic attitudes towards related requests, the denial of medically necessary and previously prescribed hormonal treatments during inpatient hospital stays, the heavy reliance of the staff on psychotropic drugs to treat gender dysphoria, the fabrication of sexual abuse incidents during a patient's childhood to rationalize gender dysphoria, hostility towards patients who revealed their homosexual or gender nonconforming status, and threats to hospitalize a patient indefinitely because it was believed that their gender non-conforming status was indicative of mental illness. The transgender population is disproportionately represented among suicide statistics.
The 41% suicide rate among transgender people is more than 25 times the rate of the general population, which is 1.6%. Thus, it is imperative that psychiatric facilities be equipped to assist the transgender people that come to them in a state of crisis. The treatment of transgender people in doctor's offices, hospitals, and psychiatric wards is reprehensible. Oftentimes, the treatment of lesbian, gay, and bisexual patients is not much better.
10. Stop military commands covering up their abuses
Currently, the Navy (and my guess all the military) can diagnosis anyone with a personality disorder, if the diagnosis is from the opinions of mental health doctors employed by the military.
The military will only consider Psychologists and Psychiatrists that work for them in determining if a soldier has a Personality Disorder. A Personality disorder falls under many items, but is usually associated with persons who are unfit for duty because they can't deal with taking orders, talking back, or getting along with others.
The problem is a Military employed Mental Health clinicians can put the command first. If there are complaints of hazing, harassment, fraternization, and racial discrimination from a junior sailor, then these doctors can diagnose them with "PD."
11. Tell Canada to "Show Up" for Health
From October 19-21, 2011, over 100 Member States of the United Nations will be formally participating in the World Conference on Social Determinants of Health, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Among the delegates will be numerous heads of state and, at last count, over 60 Ministers of Health and other senior Government Ministers from around the world -- including Ministers from other G8 countries.
The Government of Canada is currently refusing to send its Minister of Health and/or other senior Cabinet Ministers to this key global meeting. The absence of Canada's Prime Minister and other federal Ministers from this world conference will send a dangerous message that neither the health of Canadians nor global cooperation to improve health in other countries are priorities for the Government of Canada.
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OCT 21 UPDATE: On October 20, Canada's Minister of Health was asked, in the House of Commons, why she decided not to participate in the global meeting. See video for question and response (English translation of questions provided below).
TRANSLATION OF QUESTION: "Mr. Speaker, this week 118 countries are meeting in Brazil to develop a plan of action on the social determinants of health. However, this government (Canada) is not attending. In Canada, 20% of health care spending is attributable to preventable social causes of illness such as inadequate housing and poverty. The World Health Organization recognizes that social inequities result in inequities in health.The costs are astronomical. Can the Minister of Health explain why she is not at this important international meeting."
12. Save Redbridge Art Psychotherapy Services for people with Mental Health Challenges
THE North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) have chosen to cut the 'Redbridge Art Psychotherapy Services' with no consultation from Service Users, Foundation Trust Members, or wider stakeholders. This runs contrary to their promises to involve service users in the commissioning and organisation of services.
The Outer North East London PCT (ONEL) commissions the North East London NHS Foundation Trust to provide mental health services for the LB of Redbridge populus.
In order that ONEL can apparently balance their finances they requested NELFT to submit to submit "efficiences" of 1.5% on top of pre-exisiting committments in service reductions / savings.
Without ANY consultation with Service Users, Foundation Trust members, Staff or Elected Representatives - NELFT submitted Art Psychotherapy Services for decommissioning. The lack of consultation runs contrary to NELFTs own trust policies and the coalition governments of "no health without mental health".
13. Improve health and health care in Nunavut
In 2014, the current 2004 Health Accord – the deal that sets funding and healthcare service delivery agreements between the federal, provincial and territorial governments – will expire and must be renegotiated. This is a unique opportunity to improve health and health care for all Canadians.
The renewed 2014 Health Accord must be a joint initiative between all provincial, territorial and federal governments and must include key provisions in order to improve the accessibility, equity, comprehensiveness and sustainability of our health system. Among these provisions is the need for action on primary health care across Canada, including increased access to Community Health Centres in Nunavut and across Canada.
14. Improve health and health care in Yukon
In 2014, the current 2004 Health Accord – the deal that sets funding and healthcare service delivery agreements between the federal, provincial and territorial governments – will expire and must be renegotiated. This is a unique opportunity to improve health and health care for all Canadians.
The renewed 2014 Health Accord must be a joint initiative between all provincial, territorial and federal governments and must include key provisions in order to improve the accessibility, equity, comprehensiveness and sustainability of our health system. Among these provisions is the need for action on primary health care across Canada, including increased access to Community Health Centres in the Yukon and across Canada.
15. Improve health and health care in New Brunswick
In 2014, the current 2004 Health Accord – the deal that sets funding and healthcare service delivery agreements between the federal, provincial and territorial governments – will expire and must be renegotiated. This is a unique opportunity to improve health and health care for all Canadians.
The renewed 2014 Health Accord must be a joint initiative between all provincial, territorial and federal governments and must include key provisions in order to improve the accessibility, equity, comprehensiveness and sustainability of our health system. Among these provisions is the need for action on primary health care across Canada, including increased access to Community Health Centres in New Brunswick and across Canada.
16. Improve health and health care in Nova Scotia
In 2014, the current 2004 Health Accord – the deal that sets funding and healthcare service delivery agreements between the federal, provincial and territorial governments – will expire and must be renegotiated. This is a unique opportunity to improve health and health care for all Canadians.
The renewed 2014 Health Accord must be a joint initiative between all provincial, territorial and federal governments and must include key provisions in order to improve the accessibility, equity, comprehensiveness and sustainability of our health system. Among these provisions is the need for action on primary health care across Canada, including increased access to Community Health Centres in Nova Scotia and across Canada.
17. Improve health and health care in British Columbia
In 2014, the current 2004 Health Accord – the deal that sets funding and healthcare service delivery agreements between the federal, provincial and territorial governments – will expire and must be renegotiated. This is a unique opportunity to improve health and health care for all Canadians.
The renewed 2014 Health Accord must be a joint initiative between all provincial, territorial and federal governments and must include key provisions in order to improve the accessibility, equity, comprehensiveness and sustainability of our health system. Among these provisions is the need for action on primary health care across Canada, including increased access to Community Health Centres in British Columbia and across Canada.
18. Improve health and health care in Alberta
In 2014, the current 2004 Health Accord – the deal that sets funding and healthcare service delivery agreements between the federal, provincial and territorial governments – will expire and must be renegotiated. This is a unique opportunity to improve health and health care for all Canadians.
The renewed 2014 Health Accord must be a joint initiative between all provincial, territorial and federal governments and must include key provisions in order to improve the accessibility, equity, comprehensiveness and sustainability of our health system. Among these provisions is the need for action on primary health care across Canada, including increased access to Community Health Centres in Alberta and across Canada.
19. Improve health and health care in Northwest Territories
In 2014, during the term of the next Government of the Northwest Territories, the current 2004 Health Accord – the deal that sets funding and healthcare service delivery agreements between the federal, provincial and territorial governments – will expire and must be renegotiated. This is a unique opportunity to improve health and health care for all Canadians.
The renewed 2014 Health Accord must be a joint initiative between all provincial, territorial and federal governments and must include key provisions in order to improve the accessibility, equity, comprehensiveness and sustainability of our health system. Among these provisions is the need for action on primary health care across Canada, including increased access to Community Health Centres in the NWT and across Canada.
20. Improve health and health care in Saskatchewan
In 2014, the current 2004 Health Accord – the deal that sets funding and healthcare service delivery agreements between the federal, provincial and territorial governments – will expire and must be renegotiated. This is a unique opportunity to improve health and health care for all Canadians.
The renewed 2014 Health Accord must be a joint initiative between all provincial, territorial and federal governments and must include key provisions in order to improve the accessibility, equity, comprehensiveness and sustainability of our health system. Among these provisions is the need for action on primary health care across Canada, including increased access to Community Health Centres in Saskatchewan and across Canada.
21. Improve health and health care in Newfoundland and Labrador
In 2014, the current 2004 Health Accord -- the deal that sets funding and healthcare service delivery agreements between the federal, provincial and territorial governments -- will expire and must be renegotiated. This is a unique opportunity to improve health and health care for all Canadians.
The renewed 2014 Health Accord must be a joint initiative between all provincial, territorial and federal governments and must include key provisions in order to improve the accessibility, equity, comprehensiveness and sustainability of our health system. Among these provisions is the need for action on primary health care across Canada, including increased access to Community Health Centres in Newfoundland and Labrador, and across Canada.
22. Improve health and health care for Prince Edward Islanders
In 2014, the current 2004 Health Accord -- the deal that sets funding and healthcare service delivery agreements between the federal, provincial and territorial governments -- will expire and must be renegotiated. This is a unique opportunity to improve health and health care for all Canadians.
The renewed 2014 Health Accord must be a joint initiative between all provincial, territorial and federal governments and must include key provisions in order to improve the accessibility, equity, comprehensiveness and sustainability of our health system. Among these provisions is the need for action on primary health care across Canada, including increased access to Community Health Centres on PEI and across Canada.
23. Improve health and health care for Manitobans
In 2014, the current 2004 Health Accord – the deal that sets funding and healthcare service delivery agreements between the federal, provincial and territorial governments – will expire and must be renegotiated. This is a unique opportunity to improve health and health care for all Canadians.
The renewed 2014 Health Accord needs to be a joint initiative between all provincial, territorial and federal governments and must include key provisions in order to improve the accessibility, equity, comprehensiveness and sustainability of our health system. Among these provisions is the need for action on primary health care across Canada, including increased access to Community Health Centres in Manitoba and across Canada.
24. Rescue the Ngerengere River
Rescue Ngerengere River
Geographical location of Ngerengere River. The source of Ngerengere River is Uluguru Mountains in Morogoro. The river passes in more than 20 villages in Morogoro and Pwani regions.
The River is the major water source to thousands of people, Cattle, Wild animals etc. The situation at Ngerengere River is worse, due to human activities.
The nature has been deteriorated due to excessive tree cutting, illegal charcoal trading, farming along the river banks, mining into the river, illegal fishing by using poison, Water source pollution, poaching etc.
The Mission is to create new jobs and reduce poverty rates into the communities through introduction of sustainable projects such as – Eco tourism by establishing eco camp sites, introduce beekeeping, gardening, poultry establishment, Fish farming establishment, sustainable grazing, Sustainable charcoal production, tree nurseries establishment, etc.
Vision is to secure alternative means of income, to improve the life standard and eradicate poverty among the communities around the River.
The vision is to retain the nature of River and change negative altitude about environment among the people to improve the wellbeing.
Other measures are:-
Create awareness into the communities on the importance of sustainable use of natural resources around them.
Build capacity in the communities around
Identify and formulate new sustainable means of income.
Identify the most affected river locations
Identify local hunters (poachers).
Establish environmental clubs.
Establish local hunters clubs.
Establish training program.
Create new jobs through conservation.
25. Create a Community Health Centre for Markham and Richmond Hill
The diverse communities of Markham and Richmond Hill urgently need access to the integrated model of community-based health care offered by Ontario's Community Health Centres (CHCs).
CHCs are the only primary health care services in Ontario that bring together family physicians, nurses and other health professionals under a single roof to provide team-based care, combined with a wide range of other health promotion and community development services. This comprehensive approach is exactly what is required in Markham and Richmond Hill where there are so many different populations with complex needs -- especially the thousands of newcomers to Canada whose health is often at risk because of factors beyond their control.
Inter-professional health teams providing services from a new Community Health Centre based in Markham would respond to the individual health issues faced by members of these communities. The CHC would also create programs and services that address the wider range of non-medical factors -- the "social determinants of health" -- that are negatively impacting community wellbeing. All of these services would be culturally-appropriate and carefully tailored to respond to the diverse needs of the many different communities living in Markham and Richmond Hill. Other benefits of the new Community Health Centre will include:
* Increasing access to primary health care for those who do not currently have a primary care provider;
* Empowering patients to take charge of their own health through health education, health promotion and disease prevention programs;
* Reducing visits to local hospital Emergency Rooms and reducing costly and avoidable hospital admissions by providing timely access to preventive health care;
In other parts of the GTA, residents are already benefiting from Community Health Centres that deliver integrated and seamless health and social services to a wide range of populations with complex needs. People living in Markham and Richmond Hill, with similar complex needs, deserve access to the same integrated, high-quality services.
For more information read our short background document.
Learn more about Ontario's Community Health Centres at www.ontariochc.ca
26. Expand Access to Community Health Centres Now!
Join the call for a health care solution!
Ontario’s Community Health Centres (CHCs) and Aboriginal Health Access Centres (AHACs) -- similar health centres that are focused on health and health care for Aboriginal community members -- are among the greatest success stories of our provincial health system.
CHCs and AHACs are the only primary health care model that combines team-based primary care delivered by physicians, nurses, dietitians, counselors and other providers, with health promotion and community development services.
They are also unique because they focus on the "social determinants of health", acting as leaders in tackling the root causes of illness, and working to keep individuals, families and communities healthy in the first place.
Unfortunately, only 4 percent of Ontarians currently have access to a Community Health Centre or an Aboriginal Health Access Centre. An expansion of access to CHCs and AHACs in Ontario will mean accessible, high-quality, preventive health care for more Ontarians. It will also result in healthier communities and a more effective and sustainable provincial health system for all Ontarians!
27. All Americans Deserve Health Care
America is the only well developed country in the world without health care for all of its people. If affordable health care was offered to all Americans, not only would health industries benefit by more business, but more money would be going into the economy.
Americans deserve health care. Without health care, and the growing cost of it, there is an expanding federal deficit.
With health care for everyone, more money would be going back into the economy. Americans deserve health care.
28. Better Budget Priorities for Massachusetts
Governor Patrick and the Massachusetts Legislature are advancing a budget plan that will cause deep and permanent injury to people and the environment. Their excuse is that there is simply not enough money. But the cause of the budget shortfall is their insistence on preserving waste and unjustified tax giveaways that they have awarded to well-connected interests over the years.
Among the urgently needed measures that they refuse to consider are:
• ending $1.0 billion in ineffective tax giveaways to corporations
• adding $1.2 billion in revenues by making the wealthy pay their fair share
• achieving $1.5 billion in savings through single payer health care
This totals $3.7 billion in savings - more than enough to close the entire $1.9b budget gap!
The Democratic Party holds the governor's office and over 80% of the seats in the Massachusetts Legislature so its vital to let the Democratic leadership know that they will be held accountable for the warped priorities in the current budget.
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY STOOD UP
TO CALL FOR A FAIR, COMPASSIONATE BUDGET
Please add your voice by signing the Better Budget petition.
29. Demand Bournemouth Council Defend the NHS
Since the government announced its proposals to reform the NHS, pressure has been growing from all directions calling on them to think again and drop the Health and Social Care Bill. Health professionals, Unions, service users, charities and the public have all expressed deep concerns.
These include the estimated £3 billion it would cost to implement the changes which would effectively privatise almost 1 million NHS staff in England by 2014. Over £80 billion of tax payer’s money will be handed over to GP consortiums and a commissioning board who will be able to introduce major changes without any real public scrutiny or accountability.
Clinical services will be opened up to 'any willing provider' opening the door to cowboy private companies, smashing down quality of care and lead to the NHS being subject to EU competition laws. Foundation Trusts will be free to make as much money as they like from private medicine allowing them to concentrate on more wealthy patients from home and abroad while NHS budgets are squeezed. The expansion of private providers will inevitably bankrupt and close many local NHS services and hospitals. GPs will not really be in charge but will be under the thumb of a remote commissioning board and will not have a say over which providers will be included on the new national register.
The Bill does not protect against conflict of interests between those commissioning and the private providers meaning decisions could end up being based on profit rather than the needs of the patient. Hospital referrals will require the rubber stamping of 'management referral' teams often run by private companies seeking to cut spending.
Due to widespread opposition to the Bill, the government has recently announced a 2 month break in the Bill to "pause and engage". Please sign this petition calling on the Council to support the wishes of the vast majority of the population and contact the local MPs demanding that the Bill is dropped.
30. Demand Poole Council Defend the NHS
Since the government announced its proposals to reform the NHS, pressure has been growing from all directions calling on them to think again and drop the Health and Social Care Bill. Health professionals, Unions, service users, charities and the public have all expressed deep concerns.
These include the estimated £3 billion it would cost to implement the changes which would effectively privatise almost 1 million NHS staff in England by 2014. Over £80 billion of tax payer’s money will be handed over to GP consortiums and a commissioning board who will be able to introduce major changes without any real public scrutiny or accountability. Clinical services will be opened up to 'any willing provider' opening the door to cowboy private companies, smashing down quality of care and lead to the NHS being subject to EU competition laws.
Foundation Trusts will be free to make as much money as they like from private medicine allowing them to concentrate on more wealthy patients from home and abroad while NHS budgets are squeezed. The expansion of private providers will inevitably bankrupt and close many local NHS services and hospitals. GPs will not really be in charge but will be under the thumb of a remote commissioning board and will not have a say over which providers will be included on the new national register. The Bill does not protect against conflict of interests between those commissioning and the private providers meaning decisions could end up being based on profit rather than the needs of the patient.
Hospital referrals will require the rubber stamping of 'management referral' teams often run by private companies seeking to cut spending. Due to widespread opposition to the Bill, the government has recently announced a 2 month break in the Bill to "pause and engage". Please sign this petition calling on the Council to support the wishes of the vast majority of the population and contact the local MPs demanding that the Bill is dropped.