Comments on: A boring week http://drogothesaint.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/a-boring-week/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Wed, 02 May 2007 11:53:50 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: guineapigmum http://drogothesaint.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/a-boring-week/#comment-13 guineapigmum Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:47:00 +0000 http://drogothesaint.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/a-boring-week/#comment-13 All quiet on here as J is in hospital again, and has been for 3 weeks, with no access to her laptop. Here's hoping she'll be home soon. All quiet on here as J is in hospital again, and has been for 3 weeks, with no access to her laptop. Here’s hoping she’ll be home soon.

]]> By: guineapigmum http://drogothesaint.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/a-boring-week/#comment-12 guineapigmum Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:50:10 +0000 http://drogothesaint.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/a-boring-week/#comment-12 Not a chance - too far gone I think Not a chance – too far gone I think

]]> By: Eltee http://drogothesaint.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/a-boring-week/#comment-11 Eltee Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:03:29 +0000 http://drogothesaint.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/a-boring-week/#comment-11 If Tabby's toe had been found in time could it have been sown back on? If Tabby’s toe had been found in time could it have been sown back on?

]]> By: guineapigmum http://drogothesaint.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/a-boring-week/#comment-10 guineapigmum Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:08:02 +0000 http://drogothesaint.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/a-boring-week/#comment-10 Cat vomit on the path - think yourself lucky! We still haven't found Tabby's toe. I had my money on Christopher's bed but so far no joy. On second thoughts, perhaps I shouldn't have said that as that is the bed visitors use... Cat vomit on the path – think yourself lucky! We still haven’t found Tabby’s toe. I had my money on Christopher’s bed but so far no joy. On second thoughts, perhaps I shouldn’t have said that as that is the bed visitors use…

]]> By: Eltee http://drogothesaint.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/a-boring-week/#comment-9 Eltee Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:32:57 +0000 http://drogothesaint.wordpress.com/2007/03/30/a-boring-week/#comment-9 I am enjoying your blog! It is very interesting to hear how things are on the receiving end of mental health 'care in the community'. As a nurse trying to give the best possible care to the neediest of the mentally ill in the community I am constantly frustrated by myriad obsticles preventing me from doing the job properly. And now my major worry is that the NHS is gradually being privatised by stealth. This is a letter I wrote to my local paper today. I am part of a campaign which is going to support an independent 'Save the NHS' candidate in local elections here in May. I have worked for over twenty years as a nurse in the NHS and I am deeply saddened to experience the gradual erosion of so much that was great about our healthcare service. I am proud that I was trained by public funding in order to serve the public no matter what their financial circumstances. Now we are witnessing the insidious privatisation of one of Britain's greatest public achievements and because this government is hacking away at it in a piecemeal fashion, we may not notice what is happening. Is it a coincidence that the frightening rise in hospital acquired infections started at the same time that hospital cleaning was put out to tender? And what happened to the promises that using 'private finance initiatives' to create shiny new buildings would enhance facilities and save the NHS millions? Did we believe that private companies would want to charitably help fund the NHS? We let it happen and now the consequences become clear as the bills for PFI's increase and the funds left available for front line care decrease. And so it goes on, little by little, by introducing targets which hide the truth, by outsourcing treatments to the private sector at inflated rates, by stealth and false promises and now by the creation of 'foundation trusts' we are watching the slow relentless death of the NHS. So far we have allowed this to happen. Maybe the public and NHS employees have felt powerless against the governmental steam rollering of this undemocratic process. But now local people and those of us who work in the NHS really do have a chance to change the tide of privisation and to make our NHS great again for ourselves and for future generations. It seems likely that there will be an independent candidate standing for the local elections in May on the 'Save The NHS' platform. This gives us all a rare opportunity and a duty to join a campaign to get this candidate elected and to show the local and national government that we will not allow the selling off of our health and welfare to the private sector. The meeting this Tuesday, April 3rd at Walton Court Community Centre 7pm - 9pm represents the start of an election campaign to ensure that the Health and Welfare of local people is at the heart of the agenda of Aylesbury Vale District Council. I am enjoying your blog! It is very interesting to hear how things are on the receiving end of mental health ‘care in the community’. As a nurse trying to give the best possible care to the neediest of the mentally ill in the community I am constantly frustrated by myriad obsticles preventing me from doing the job properly. And now my major worry is that the NHS is gradually being privatised by stealth.
This is a letter I wrote to my local paper today. I am part of a campaign which is going to support an independent ‘Save the NHS’ candidate in local elections here in May.

I have worked for over twenty years as a nurse in the NHS and I am deeply saddened to experience the gradual erosion of so much that was great about our healthcare service. I am proud that I was trained by public funding in order to serve the public no matter what their financial circumstances.
Now we are witnessing the insidious privatisation of one of Britain’s greatest public achievements and because this government is hacking away at it in a piecemeal fashion, we may not notice what is happening.
Is it a coincidence that the frightening rise in hospital acquired infections started at the same time that hospital cleaning was put out to tender?
And what happened to the promises that using ‘private finance initiatives’ to create shiny new buildings would enhance facilities and save the NHS millions? Did we believe that private companies would want to charitably help fund the NHS? We let it happen and now the consequences become clear as the bills for PFI’s increase and the funds left available for front line care decrease.
And so it goes on, little by little, by introducing targets which hide the truth, by outsourcing treatments to the private sector at inflated rates, by stealth and false promises and now by the creation of ‘foundation trusts’ we are watching the slow relentless death of the NHS.
So far we have allowed this to happen. Maybe the public and NHS employees have felt powerless against the governmental steam rollering of this undemocratic process.
But now local people and those of us who work in the NHS really do have a chance to change the tide of privisation and to make our NHS great again for ourselves and for future generations.
It seems likely that there will be an independent candidate standing for the local elections in May on the ‘Save The NHS’ platform. This gives us all a rare opportunity and a duty to join a campaign to get this candidate elected and to show the local and national government that we will not allow the selling off of our health and welfare to the private sector.
The meeting this Tuesday, April 3rd at Walton Court Community Centre 7pm – 9pm represents the start of an election campaign to ensure that the Health and Welfare of local people is at the heart of the agenda of Aylesbury Vale District Council.

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