So, sorry to come along like a n00b with a political agenda but I do genuinely live in East Dulwich and read the forum fairly reguarly! And this is so important that I really feel I have to shout about it to anyone who'll listen. If you don't know, the Health and Social care Bill is set to be passed through government next Tuesday the 20th of March, and it'll be VERY detrimental to the NHS, opening up possibilities for competition and for private companies to have a hand in what goes on, prioritising private patients and money over patient care. I'd tell you all to write to you MPs but happily Tessa Jowell is thoroughly against this, so it'd be great if you could shout at everyone you know out of the are about this! There are some great resources and ideas on this site for other actions you can take http://www.unison.org.uk/ournhs/news_view.asp?did=13310 . And if you want to read more about it, this is great- Nick Cleggs letter defending his choices, fact checked http://abetternhs.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/ldconf/ In case you've read of reasons that it 'won't be that bad' they are unlikely to be very true. Cos it'll be awful and WILL effect us all eventually, so doing nothing about it just seems ridiculous to me, really. I hope you can all be stirred into action in some way, I appreciate it's diffcicult to get really riled up about politics these days and just feels a little pointless at times, but I think this is a time when you can say it's definitely 'worth a try'. Because this going through is to awful to contemplate, and if absolutely everyone in England did their best then we can definitely only blame the governetment for this! PLEASE do smething and spread the word!
