Email to MP re plans for NHS
Here's an email I sent my MP, for all the good it will do. She's a LibDem minister so she'll most likely just toe the party line. From: Curtis David (East London NHS Foundation Trust) Sent: 27 December 2010 17:28 To: 'Lynne Featherstone - Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey & Wood Green' Subject: Government plans for the NHS Dear Ms Featherstone. I am writing to express my extreme concern at the government's plans for the NHS. The major reorganization proposed has not been properly thought through. The very process of reorganization will certainly strain the NHS in the short term and is being carried out at a time when the NHS is under extreme pressure for other reasons. It breaks the pledge which the Conservatives made not to subject the NHS to new reorganizations. The eventual outcome of the reorganization is quite likely to be deleterious for the NHS. There is no reason why GPs are likely to do a better job of commissioning than professional commissioners. It