Agenda 2019

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-mp-philip-davies-speaks-for-90-minutes-to-stop-carers-getting-free-hospital-parking-a6715641.html Tory MP Philip Davies speaks for 90 minutes to stop carers getting free hospital parking Philip Davies MP. The bill would have given carers free parking at hospitals   What could possibly motivate these "MP's" to block a bill which would be of benefit to thousands of people all over the country, particularly when the benefit applies only to carers? Already, the parking charges imposed at hospitals around the country are extortionate and represent a significant cost to patients attending for appointments particularly when such appointments may be part of an ongoing treatment. Some hospitals do operate a "waiver" system where an additional parking charge is not applied if there are delays in the waiting time for patients to see doctors, but even these are discretionary.  Hospital trusts a...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/17/private-firms-data-hospital-patients?commentpage=1 Bupa approved to access medical records as campaigners question patient consent for release This is outrageous. At no time as far as I can remember, has any health minister, or anyone in government or in the ConDem coalition suggested or even hinted that medical records could be sold off to private firms without any reference to, and without the knowledge of the patients concerned.  Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt The way in which this government has recklessly pursued the privatisation of the NHS is in itself an act of theft and barbarism and now to compound this ravaging, they propose to sell patient records from any remaining parts of the public system. Their "friends" in business have fared well from the governments idolisation of the private sector, and they now can purchase intimate details of people and their medical h...

  http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/mid-staffs-inquiry-how-a-10year-coverup-was-uncovered-8484075.html        "They were failed by a system which ignored the warning signs and put corporate self-interest and cost control ahead of patients and safety.” Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust Report A scathing indictment of a system and culture which, sadly, is not limited to Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust. Already we have the statement that another eight hospitals in 5 other NHS Trusts are to be investigated as a matter of urgency. There are without doubt other hospitals which should be subjected to scrutiny, and their performance and shortcomings exposed. Of course this is not to say that all hospitals in all Trusts are providing inadequate or incompetent standards of service for their patients. There are some, perhaps many hospitals where the standards of care are beyond reproach, From my own ...