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Robert Galloway
Mr Hunt, now I am getting angry with you for this ultimate insult. Not just a bit angry but really angry. Blood boiling angry. Need urgent meditation before I have a stroke angry.
How dare you write such a pathetic letter thanking NHS staff for our help during the Junior Drs strike. HOW DARE YOU. Its an embarrassing and pathetic letter made worse by the fact there is a picture of you on it wearing an NHS badge.
Any picture of you creates a Pavlovian response in me of a becoming a bit pissed off and upset.Thats wrong and I am sorry but I can’t help it. But this picture with an NHS badge on has made my blood boil. GET THAT BADGE OFF YOUR SUIT. You are not fit to wear it. You do not deserve to wear it. You demean and insult all of us who work and care about the NHS by wearing it. An NHS badge should be worn by someone who loves the NHS not someone who is at the helm whilst the NHS boat is sinking because of his leadership.
In your letter you thank NHS staff who pulled together to make patients safe. Yes we showed great efforts, but NOT FOR YOU but because we care about our patients and support our Junior Doctors.
The contract you wish to impose is sexist, unfair and unsafe. But if you win, others in the NHS will have a similar contract brought in. And staff across the board will leave, patients will suffer and the NHS will start to fail. Destroy the staff and destroy the NHS. Then you and your cronies will be able to say ‘hey the only solution is privatisation.’
But that sadly is what you want. How is it that someone wrote a book calling for the NHS to be privatised is allowed to be the Secretary of State for Health? The only answer is that this is the government’s long term plan.
This Junior Doctor contract is part and parcel of what is happening overall to the NHS. And all of it makes me just so so sad. So so sad that something so many of us need, love and care about is being so badly damaged.
Before it is too late and our NHS falls apart, please stop your madness. Now is time for conciliation and not escalation. Now is time to be reasonable and not a militant. Now is time to put our patients before your political ideology.
Please stop, think and rethink your NHS policies. Because if you don’t our patients will never forgive you.
Save Our NHS
Copied: Marion Judd. My take on the background of the Junior doctor’s strike – rather long I’m afraid: Jeremy Hunt has been successfully deceiving the public ever since he became Secretary of State for Health. But he has concealed this through manipulation of the media, and serial misrepresentation of facts. David Cameron, Jeremy Hunt, Oliver Letwin, Tory MPs and the Tory Party are committed to privatising the NHS, evidenced by Jeremy Hunt’s own published work prior to becoming a government minister. Their long-term strategy began with the introduction of an internal market into the NHS and breaking up the NHS into separate Trusts, in preparation for future privatisation. New Labour played along with the strategy through supporting the internal market and increasing privatisation of services, plus the disastrous PPI contracts which no sensible member of the public would ever have condoned. These costly structural changes have been responsible for creating huge financial deficits for NHS Trusts, reducing their capacity to fund care for patients. On top of this, and in spite of our rising population, there has been no increase in funding for the NHS in real terms since 2009, with decrease in training places, and freezing of clinical staff salaries (although not those of management nor those on the political bandwagon).
As the government’s privatisation plans move forward, pressure is now being placed on NHS commissioners to contract out services to private providers and to favour them in the bidding process. There have been instances where lower bids from NHS providers have been rejected in favour of much more expensive contracts. This cannot be in the best interests of the NHS and its patients when funding care should be the priority.
The “junior” doctor’s strike is a culmination of the latest assault on salaries and working conditions in the NHS in preparation for privatisation. Calling them “junior” is misleading for the public as many of them have been doctors for 20 or more years. Nurses and other clinical staff will be the next targets. Levels of lying by Jeremy Hunt and his party have reached a crescendo this year, in order to keep the public from finding out the real state of affairs. We already have a 7 day NHS despite what we are being told. And evidence for more deaths at weekends is decidedly shaky, yet keeps on being quoted. Quality of care on every day of the week depends on adequate funding and in the absence of proper funding NHS clinical services are running on the good will of staff who strive to keep up standards of patient care despite being burdened with top heavy bureaucracy and too few to carry the load. The Tories have seemingly forgotten that the NHS is there primarily to care for sick people. They view it as a potential cash cow and to this end have burdened the NHS with a vast raft of expensive quangos, A number of Tory MPs are known to have vested interests in the private companies which are being awarded NHS contracts and more are doubtless waiting in the wings to cash in if the TTIP gets signed, as David Cameron has refused to exempt the NHS from being taken over by US healthcare companies.
Trusts are additionally being burdened with fines for not reaching impossible targets and the latest assault is to make Trusts pay rent for the land they stand on. Funding for direct patient care, beds, staffing and equipment is thus reducing by the day while billions are being diverted elsewhere. The doctor’s strike ultimately and fundamentally results from this rape of our great and humane health service whose patients are destined to suffer even more if Tory plans reach fruition.
The art and practices of medicine and nursing in the NHS are clearly not understood nor valued by Jeremy Hunt and his cohorts. Tory Dr MPs, civil servants and any other potential dissenters all appear to have been silenced.
Political interfering with the nation’s healthcare has become a truly retrograde step for this country. Keeping the NHS as a publicly owned and run service needs to be centrally funded but free from political control as this is proving disastrous. Interference with the training and practices of medicine and nursing by non –medical politicians who seek to micro manage training and practice of clinicians makes little sense and it can be clearly seen what has brought the junior doctors out on strike as they care deeply about providing the right care for their patients with the ability to do so being systematically eroded by Tory ideologists. The strike is symbolic – not about money but about fighting for the very fabric of our NHS. In order to do their work, we need them to be respected and supported, not maligned and penalised.
My recommendation to Jeremy Hunt is to read Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal in the hope that his conscience might become a tad troubled about his and his government’s actions.
And in this 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, his words from Julius Caesar “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones” rings true for our NHS today
Crochet Accessories
This is a purse I made copying a pattern meant for a bag in my crochet accessories book. It has a pink Polka dot lining and matching zip. I like this purse and tempted to keep it.
I made a little case for my digital camera, similar to Janine’s, to carry it around as will be going on holiday in May, I liked where cord is threaded through case copied that!
I am linking this with Wool on Sundays
Chrysanthemum Corsage
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Thought I’d crochet a brooch or something for craft fairs. I used double knitting acrylic yarn and made this corsage found pattern in one of my crochet books. Crocheted Accessories.
I used the same colours and embroidered French knots for flower centre adding a matching button.
I am linking this with Rainbow Hare
TwitterNurse – seventh instalment
Yesterday I attended a march in London. The reasons for the march were all under the banner of ‘austerity’, cuts to various budgets affecting the welfare state in some way or another o…
TwitterNurse – seventh instalment
Save our NHS
Yesterday I attended a march in London. The reasons for the march were all under the banner of ‘austerity’, cuts to various budgets affecting the welfare state in some way or another or changes to working conditions, impositions placed on whole sections of articulate, educated and caring professions – teachers are threatening to strike due to the imposition of academy status on schools, student nurses are staging walk-outs because of the cuts to their student bursaries, junior doctors are about to stage a full walk-out in a few days’ time because of proposed changes to their contracts. Many more groups representing a range of social and funding issues attended the march too, all of them worthwhile.
The NHS was well represented demonstrated by the garb of scrubs, uniforms and paraphernalia denoting NHS workers. For me it was a day of highs and lows.
As I marched alongside friends and family…
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Why I’m sending Mr Cameron 34p.
Dear Mr Cameron,
I’m a little confused. If you follow my blog (and let’s face it, why wouldn’t you on your tea break) you would know that this often happens, usually following the announcement of some education policy or another. Then the confusion gets coupled with a bit of research, some healthy debate and then an opinion.
I thought that was what I was meant to do this time, with the whole ‘EU in-or-out’ thing. I’ve been doing my homework as an independently minded, resourceful citizen, and reading up on the EU from a variety of sources. I’ve looked at academic research on various aspects of the EU and Britain’s relationship with and in it. I’ve read opinions from experts on economics, politics, human rights and business. I’ve had some hearty discussions well past my bed-time with my husband on the subject, and with a wider audience (even the mummies…
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Primrose Flower Cushion
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Primrose Flower Cushion
Joining the flowers
I have made this Primrose Flower Cushion from this pattern I did not add the pretty edging as I made a cushion and wanted a double crochet edge so to easily add a cream calico back to it. I added a white satin cover to the inside cushion pad to show through as it is an open work pattern joining of all the flowers. To this I added little flower buttons along the open edge to complete.
This is the new craft fair did not sell much as it was quiet and also a cold day most people at home watching the rugby I suspect. Still we found out about a couple more fairs coming along shortly in April and summer to go to so that’s something!
Edit to add. I did a craft fair again at this venue in Camborne on Saturday and although the weather wasn’t good pouring with rain I sold a bag so that’s good before we all went home early. I have booked another craft fair for next week so the craft fairs are popping up here and there in Cornwall where I live and at reasonable prices so don’t mind giving them a go.
I am linking this with Wool on Sunday’s
New Spring Summer Bag
This is my latest bag a reversible yellow flowers and a yellow pattern bag either with a pocket inside or outside.
All the colours are yellow and navy blue with blue velvet at the top and the shoulder strap and blue button and tab. It has a wide top like a slouch and tapers to boxed gusset
I am not listing this in my shop as I am doing a craft fair on Saturday and thought I’d try it there first and this is my first stall at this craft fair, it will be a regular weekly event throughout now and through summer. We have two other good craft fairs recently started in Cornwall and proving popular for stall holders too as they are not too expensive and the table is provided. One is at Hellys in Helston a good location beside the boating lake and the other is at Heartlands in Pool a world heritage site about Cornwalls mining.
Crafty Bags 