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The third and final reading of the Destroy the NHS / Health and Social Care Bill is taking place now. I think that the vote is yet to be taken.

Many doctors and other health professionals have spoken out against the bill.

During Prime Ministers Questions David Cameron falsely claimed that the Royal College of GPs and the Royal College of Nursing backed the government’s NHS plans.

Tory minister Lord Howe caused a row by describing the huge opportunities for private companies by the proposed ‘reforms’.

I regret and apologise for my recent comments.

Conservative election poster 2010

A few recent news articles about the UK’s Conservative and Liberal-Democrat coalition government – the ConDem’s – brutal attack on the National Health Service.

Black mood in Westminster as NHS vote looms

John Healey spent the afternoon as Labour’s attack dog, challenging the facts of the prime minister and publicising slip-ups by ministers while online activists frantically lobbied their MPs to oppose the bill.

A stormy PMQs session saw David Cameron insist that the Royal College of GPs and the Royal College of Nursing backed the government’s NHS proposals, a fact the shadow health secretary challenged immediately afterwards.

“When experts criticise Cameron’s health bill, he doesn’t just ignore them – he pretends they support him,” he said.

RCGP rejects David Cameron’s claim that it supports NHS reforms | GPonline.com


RCGP chairwoman Dr Clare Gerada said while the college supports putting clinicians at the centre of health service planning, it continues to have a ‘number of concerns’ about the government’s reforms.

‘As a college we are extremely worried that these reforms, if implemented in their current format, will lead to an increase in damaging competition, an increase in health inequalities, and to massively increased costs in implementing this new system. These concerns have been outlined and reiterated pre- and post-pause.’

BBC News – Private sector have huge NHS opportunity – minister

The overhaul of the NHS in England presents “huge opportunities” to the private sector, a health minister says.

He said that the changes being made presented “huge opportunities” to private groups who could provide high quality care.

And he added: “In the coming months and years, the NHS is going to evolve and grow into a very different animal.”

However, after the speech he released a statement once again reiterating that the government would never privatise the NHS.

City doctors back call for rethink on NHS reforms | This is Bristol

SEVEN Bristol doctors have signed a letter calling on the government to completely scrap its health reforms.

GPs and specialists were among the 400 medics who said the changes would cause “irreparable harm” to the NHS.

Their intervention came at a critical time for the controversial legislation as it was last night debated on the floor of the House of Commons.

Doctors in revolt over NHS shake-up (From The Northern Echo)

A NORTH-EAST doctor at the forefront of a campaign against the Government’s controversial plan to overhaul the NHS last night insisted: “We will continue to fight it.”

As MPs prepared to vote on the Health and Social Care Bill, nearly 30 health professionals from across the North- East and North Yorkshire signed a letter saying the reworked Bill would “cause irreparable harm to the health service”.

The protest also accused David Cameron of “misleading the public by repeatedly stating that there will be no privatisation of the NHS”.

Last night, Dr Clive Peedell, a cancer consultant at The James Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough, said: “The overwhelming feeling is that doctors want the Bill withdrawn.”

Dr Peedell represents the North-East on the national council of the British Medical Association and proposed the motion calling for a public campaign against the Bill.

He said the Bill was a “clear drive towards increasing privatisation that goes completely against what the coalition Government is saying”.

News & Star | News | Government changes could harm NHS, claim Cumbrian doctors

Three Cumbrian doctors are demanding the Government scrap its health proposals amid fears that it will destabilise the NHS.

Dr Gavin Young, of Temple Sowerby Medical Practice, Dr Kate Keohane, of Caldbeck Surgery and retired west Cumbrian GP Dr Mary Henman, are among more than 400 doctors across the country worried the reforms will not improve patient care.

Southampton doctors join NHS reforms protest (From Daily Echo)

FIVE Southampton doctors have signed a letter calling on the Government to scrap its health reforms.

GPs and specialists were among the 400 medics who said the changes would cause “irreparable harm” to the NHS.

Their intervention came at a critical time for the controversial legislation as it was last night debated for one of the last times on the floor of the House of Commons.

Health reforms ‘threaten future of NHS’, claims leading Manchester doctor | Manchester Evening News – menmedia.co.uk

A top Manchester doctor has hit out at plans to reform the NHS – saying it could lead to chaos.

Raymond Tallis, emeritus professor of geriatric medicine at the University of Manchester, has spoken out to warn the government’s planned shake-up could ruin decades of progress.

Prof Tallis, 64, from Bramhall in Stockport, fears the Health and Social Care Bill could open the way to privatisation of care and an American-style health service.

He has written to the British Medical Association and senior politicians to voice his concerns and urge health secretary Andrew Lansley to reconsider the proposals.

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