SIR– The British Medical Association (BMA) – founded by Charles Hastings in Worcester in 1832 – recently said that the Government’s Health and Social Care Bill would be “irreversibly damaging to the NHS”.
It denounced the Bill as “complex, incoherent and not fit for purpose, and almost impossible to implement successfully, given widespread opposition across the NHS workforce”.
David Cameron said that there would be no top-down reorganisation of the NHS, but the Government is pushing through the biggest top-down reorganisation of the NHS in its history.
At a public meeting in Worcester last July, Robin Walker acknowledged that the reorganisation could divert resources, yet he recently said that “what the NHS needs now is to get on with implementing many of the changes” contained within the proposed Health and Social Care bill.
The Bill would entail the privatisation (i.e. the end) of the NHS. Privatisation is about making profits out of existing services for private shareholders, not making sure that people get the best care possible. It would be refreshing if our MP acknowledged this too.
NEIL LAURENSON
Worcester Green Party
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