had an email the other day from 38 degrees.......
It read
Dear Tony,
A new fight over NHS privatisation has just begun. Jeremy Hunt is trying to use new powers, hidden within last year's controversial NHS laws, to force local GPs to privatise more health services. [2] This is one of the things we were afraid might happen - and now our worst fears are being confirmed. We need to do all we can to stop it.
Jeremy Hunt's new privatisation plot is contained within "NHS competition regulations". [3] Usually these kinds of rules get quickly rubber-stamped by Parliament. This time, we need to get MPs and Lords to stand up to Hunt and block his plans. [4]
It’s a long shot, but we have a chance of stopping these changes because Hunt is breaking promises made to MPs when NHS laws were voted through last year. [5] If we generate a huge, public outcry to put pressure on the politicians who clung on to those promises last time the government attacked our NHS, we can convince them to stop these new laws.
Sign the petition against Jeremy Hunt's new NHS privatisation plan here – we’ve got just a couple of days before we’ll need to deliver it:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-section75
Hunt's new regulations (Statutory Instrument 257 under Section 75 of the Health & Social Care Act 2012) are like a catalogue of our worst fears. [6] GPs would have to open up every part of local health services to private companies, whether or not it’s what they or local people want. It would speed up the break up of the NHS, giving profit-hungry companies new rights to muscle in.
Last year, the government promised it wouldn’t go as far as forcing privatisation on local health services. Lots of MPs and Lords said these promises convinced them to vote for the NHS law. Now, we need to go back to these same MPs and Lords, and tell them to find some backbone. If they really voted for the law because of those promises, now they’ve got no excuse not to put a stop to Hunt’s latest privatising move.
Let’s build a petition to hand in to each of the MPs and Lords who believed the government’s promises on privatisation:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-section75
All over the country, 38 Degrees members have been working together to convince their local NHS decision makers to do the right thing and limit privatisation in their area. Now, government is trying to take that power away from local doctors and the patients they serve.
This is going to be tough. It could be the start of the second round of the fight to protect everything that’s precious about the NHS. But it’s the right thing to do, because we know that when private companies move in, all too often it doesn’t end well for patients.
Sign the petition now:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-section75
Thanks for being involved,
Ian, Becky, Alex and the rest of the 38 Degrees team
NOTES
[1] The Telegraph, Norman Lamb: NHS competition rules must be reviewed: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... iewed.html
[2] The National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice & Competition) Regulations 2013 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013 ... tents/made
[3] Under Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
[4] Although rare, there have been a few examples of Parliament blocking regulations contained in secondary legislation: http://www.parliament.uk/documents/comm ... ce/l07.pdf
[5] For example, Simon Burns MP, then a health minister, told parliament: “...it will be for commissioners to decide which services to tender…to avoid any doubt—it is not the Government’s intention that under clause 67 [now 75] that regulations would impose compulsory competitive tendering requirements on commissioners, or for Monitor to have powers to impose such requirements.” (12/7/11, Hansard, c4423)
[6] See for example this briefing by Keep Our NHS Public: http://www.keepournhspublic.com/pdf/Sec ... 202013.pdf
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Todays update email reads........
It’s working. It looks like Jeremy Hunt is already feeling the pressure of our huge, people-powered opposition to his NHS privatisation plot. The Telegraph is reporting that “an outcry from medical groups, MPs and campaigners against privatisation in the NHS has forced a re-think”. [1]
And that’s hardly surprising - 130,000 of us signed the petition against the changes in just 24 hours. Thank you. But we haven’t won yet. Over the next few hours, Hunt will be deciding whether or not he can hold out in the face of a public outcry. Now we need to ramp up the pressure by making sure the petition continues to grow fast.
Can you help keep the pressure on Jeremy Hunt by sharing the petition with your friends and family? Please press forward on this email and ask them to click here to sign:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-section75
It’s working. It looks like Jeremy Hunt is already feeling the pressure of our huge, people-powered opposition to his NHS privatisation plot. The Telegraph is reporting that “an outcry from medical groups, MPs and campaigners against privatisation in the NHS has forced a re-think”. [1]
And that’s hardly surprising - 130,000 of us signed the petition against the changes in just 24 hours. Thank you. But we haven’t won yet. Over the next few hours, Hunt will be deciding whether or not he can hold out in the face of a public outcry. Now we need to ramp up the pressure by making sure the petition continues to grow fast.
Can you help keep the pressure on Jeremy Hunt by sharing the petition with your friends and family? Please press forward on this email and ask them to click here to sign:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-section75
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Dont get me started on them tory wankers ffs TK 
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Thought of you when I posted it Dodge 
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Thought of you when I posted it Dodge
Not going too well for em is it TK ?
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Latest news........
Dear Tony,
It’s being called backdoor NHS privatisation. And if we want to stop it, what happens in Parliament this week is crucial. Some Labour, Lib Dem and Green MPs have tabled a motion demanding the NHS privatisation plan be immediately withdrawn. [1] So far only 72 MPs have signed up. [2] We need to make that number grow, and quickly.
In the last few hours, the legal advice paid for by thousands of 38 Degrees members’ donations has come in. The verdict seems clear. If the government forces through these new NHS privatisation rules, it will mean ministers breaking promises they made last year when they said doctors wouldn't be forced to privatise everything. [3]
We’ve got the proof we need to show MPs that the government is breaking the promises made when the NHS law was forced through. Now we need to make sure every MP reads it, to convince them to sign the motion demanding these new privatisation rules are stopped.
If MPs hear from thousands of us we can make sure that they sign up to block backdoor privatisation. Can you click here to send an email asking them read our legal advice and oppose the plans?
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-broken-promises
The government says their ‘modernised’ NHS is supposed to be about giving more control to local doctors and communities. But under Jeremy Hunt’s new regulations, the government will force GPs to open up every part of local health services to private companies – whether or not it’s what they or local people want.
And it’s not just us saying this. On Sunday, the Observer newspaper reported an explosive letter from the head of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges to the health minister, outlining concerns that “healthcare will be disrupted and hospital services damaged as a result of time-consuming, disruptive and unnecessary tendering processes,” and that these new regulations are “at odds” with reassurances previously given to doctors. [6]
These are hardly the voices of radicals or political opportunists – so what’s it going to take for MPs to sit up, take notice and admit that something’s not right here? Let’s seize this moment and ask our MPs to listen to doctors, patients, legal experts and concerned constituents, before they make a big mistake:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-broken-promises
We can stop this now, if we try. In the past week we've grown our rapid-response petition to over 230,000 signatures. We’ve chipped in to pay for expert legal advice. Now let’s make the talk in the halls of Parliament on Monday be about how many voters are getting in touch about these broken promises. Together, we can help those wavering MPs to find some backbone, and help even the diehard supporters of privatisation to realise the game is up.
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-broken-promises
Thanks for using your voice,
David, James, Hannah and the 38 Degrees team
NOTES
[1] The motion was originally tabled by Green MP Caroline Lucas, but then re-tabled co-sponsored by Lib Dem Andrew George and Labour leader Ed Miliband.
[2] You can see the motion, and the latest signatures, here: http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2012-13/1104
[3] For example, Andrew Lansley sent a letter to prospective CCGs on 16th February 2012, during the height of the battle to get the Bill through parliament, in which he assured them, “I know many of you may have read that you will be forced to fragment services, or to put services out to tender. This is absolutely not the case." See http://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/nic ... eds-prayer
[4] https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-sec ... gal-advice
[5] Telegraph: Scrap NHS competition rules say 1000 in letter to Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healt ... graph.html
[6] Guardian: Doctors bemoan NHS privatisation by stealth http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/ ... by-stealth
Dear Tony,
It’s being called backdoor NHS privatisation. And if we want to stop it, what happens in Parliament this week is crucial. Some Labour, Lib Dem and Green MPs have tabled a motion demanding the NHS privatisation plan be immediately withdrawn. [1] So far only 72 MPs have signed up. [2] We need to make that number grow, and quickly.
In the last few hours, the legal advice paid for by thousands of 38 Degrees members’ donations has come in. The verdict seems clear. If the government forces through these new NHS privatisation rules, it will mean ministers breaking promises they made last year when they said doctors wouldn't be forced to privatise everything. [3]
We’ve got the proof we need to show MPs that the government is breaking the promises made when the NHS law was forced through. Now we need to make sure every MP reads it, to convince them to sign the motion demanding these new privatisation rules are stopped.
If MPs hear from thousands of us we can make sure that they sign up to block backdoor privatisation. Can you click here to send an email asking them read our legal advice and oppose the plans?
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-broken-promises
The government says their ‘modernised’ NHS is supposed to be about giving more control to local doctors and communities. But under Jeremy Hunt’s new regulations, the government will force GPs to open up every part of local health services to private companies – whether or not it’s what they or local people want.
And it’s not just us saying this. On Sunday, the Observer newspaper reported an explosive letter from the head of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges to the health minister, outlining concerns that “healthcare will be disrupted and hospital services damaged as a result of time-consuming, disruptive and unnecessary tendering processes,” and that these new regulations are “at odds” with reassurances previously given to doctors. [6]
These are hardly the voices of radicals or political opportunists – so what’s it going to take for MPs to sit up, take notice and admit that something’s not right here? Let’s seize this moment and ask our MPs to listen to doctors, patients, legal experts and concerned constituents, before they make a big mistake:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-broken-promises
We can stop this now, if we try. In the past week we've grown our rapid-response petition to over 230,000 signatures. We’ve chipped in to pay for expert legal advice. Now let’s make the talk in the halls of Parliament on Monday be about how many voters are getting in touch about these broken promises. Together, we can help those wavering MPs to find some backbone, and help even the diehard supporters of privatisation to realise the game is up.
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-broken-promises
Thanks for using your voice,
David, James, Hannah and the 38 Degrees team
NOTES
[1] The motion was originally tabled by Green MP Caroline Lucas, but then re-tabled co-sponsored by Lib Dem Andrew George and Labour leader Ed Miliband.
[2] You can see the motion, and the latest signatures, here: http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2012-13/1104
[3] For example, Andrew Lansley sent a letter to prospective CCGs on 16th February 2012, during the height of the battle to get the Bill through parliament, in which he assured them, “I know many of you may have read that you will be forced to fragment services, or to put services out to tender. This is absolutely not the case." See http://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/nic ... eds-prayer
[4] https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-sec ... gal-advice
[5] Telegraph: Scrap NHS competition rules say 1000 in letter to Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healt ... graph.html
[6] Guardian: Doctors bemoan NHS privatisation by stealth http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/ ... by-stealth
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Received another email if anyone is 'interested'...........
Dear Tony,
My name is Linda. I'm a long-standing 38 Degrees member, and I'm sending this email because I know first hand why it matters so much to stop the privatisation of our NHS.
On Friday afternoon, I will deliver a copy of the petition against NHS privatisation – which you and I have both signed – to the Health Minister.
When I hand the petition over, I will tell the Health Minister about what happened to my baby. He died when he was just seven weeks old whilst receiving care from my GP out-of-hours service – which had been recently privatised.
Can you help me have as many names as possible to hand in on Friday afternoon, by forwarding this email to as many of your friends as possible asking them to sign it too?
They can sign by simply clicking this link and adding their names:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-section75
Last week was a hard one for me. It was the inquest into the death of my baby son, Axel. He died last November from pneumonia. His illness went untreated despite repeated calls and visits over the course of five days to my NHS out-of-hours doctors' service, which had been recently privatised.
I feel the inquest left many of the biggest questions unanswered – like what role NHS privatisation may have played in the mistakes which led to the death of my baby boy.
After hearing evidence of how that private health contractor had acted, I feel determined to do all I can to stop further privatisation of our NHS. That’s why I’ve decided to get more involved with 38 Degrees, and why I'm going to see the Health Minister this Friday. I’d really appreciate it you could help me get more names on the petition before I meet him.
Please, pass this email on, and ask your friends to sign the petition for this important campaign:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-section75
We had a bit of a breakthrough with this campaign yesterday. The government announced that because of all the pressure they would withdraw and rewrite their NHS privatisation regulations. The petition which I'd signed, along with 240,000 other 38 Degrees members, was mentioned in Parliament. That shows we can make a difference.
But I remember, as I'm sure that you will, that when the government promises to rewrite a plan, that doesn't necessarily mean that the new version will be any better than the old one. We need to make sure they genuinely drop any attempt to force GPs to open up services to privatisation.
I would love to have as many signatures as possible by Friday afternoon when I visit the Health Minister. Please pass this message on to anyone you think might be interested: https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-section75
Thank you.
Linda
PS: You can read more about what happened to my baby in this piece in the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/ ... ther-fight But please sign the petition first: https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-section75
PPS: This email has been sent from Linda Peanberg King using the 38 Degrees system. Your email address has not been shared with Linda or anyone else.
Dear Tony,
My name is Linda. I'm a long-standing 38 Degrees member, and I'm sending this email because I know first hand why it matters so much to stop the privatisation of our NHS.
On Friday afternoon, I will deliver a copy of the petition against NHS privatisation – which you and I have both signed – to the Health Minister.
When I hand the petition over, I will tell the Health Minister about what happened to my baby. He died when he was just seven weeks old whilst receiving care from my GP out-of-hours service – which had been recently privatised.
Can you help me have as many names as possible to hand in on Friday afternoon, by forwarding this email to as many of your friends as possible asking them to sign it too?
They can sign by simply clicking this link and adding their names:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-section75
Last week was a hard one for me. It was the inquest into the death of my baby son, Axel. He died last November from pneumonia. His illness went untreated despite repeated calls and visits over the course of five days to my NHS out-of-hours doctors' service, which had been recently privatised.
I feel the inquest left many of the biggest questions unanswered – like what role NHS privatisation may have played in the mistakes which led to the death of my baby boy.
After hearing evidence of how that private health contractor had acted, I feel determined to do all I can to stop further privatisation of our NHS. That’s why I’ve decided to get more involved with 38 Degrees, and why I'm going to see the Health Minister this Friday. I’d really appreciate it you could help me get more names on the petition before I meet him.
Please, pass this email on, and ask your friends to sign the petition for this important campaign:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-section75
We had a bit of a breakthrough with this campaign yesterday. The government announced that because of all the pressure they would withdraw and rewrite their NHS privatisation regulations. The petition which I'd signed, along with 240,000 other 38 Degrees members, was mentioned in Parliament. That shows we can make a difference.
But I remember, as I'm sure that you will, that when the government promises to rewrite a plan, that doesn't necessarily mean that the new version will be any better than the old one. We need to make sure they genuinely drop any attempt to force GPs to open up services to privatisation.
I would love to have as many signatures as possible by Friday afternoon when I visit the Health Minister. Please pass this message on to anyone you think might be interested: https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-section75
Thank you.
Linda
PS: You can read more about what happened to my baby in this piece in the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/ ... ther-fight But please sign the petition first: https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-section75
PPS: This email has been sent from Linda Peanberg King using the 38 Degrees system. Your email address has not been shared with Linda or anyone else.
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TK, according to the Times newspaper parts of the wording of the bill has been ammended this week to stop back door private franchise etc . Thats the way i have read it , might be wrong though.
The tories of old would have got it through but this lot are p!ss poor
The tories of old would have got it through but this lot are p!ss poor