Mark Garnier MP for Wyre Forest – Do the right thing and vote for the full #NHS #riskregister to be published #dropthebill
Posted by labourblogger on February 22, 2012
Email to Mark Garnier MP
Dear Mr Garnier
Please vote in favour of the motion calling for the release of the report into the risks of Lansley’s NHS changes.
Surely legislators should have access to all available facts when voting on new laws? and the public have a right to see all the facts.
All of these professional bodies have come out opposing the NHS reform Bill.
British Medical Association, the Royal College of General Practitioners, the Royal College of Nursing, the Royal College of Midwives, the Royal College of Radiologists, the Royal College of Pathologists, the Royal College of Paediatrics, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the Institute of Healthcare Management, the Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association, the Faculty of Public Health, the British Psychological Society, and the Allied Health Professions Federation (which represents a further 12 health professional organisations)
Even the Conservative Home website is calling for the Bill to be scrapped.
David Cameron promised No Top Down Reorganisation before the General Election, Now as well as the biggest reorganisation the NHS has ever seen, 49% of hospital beds will be made available for Private Patients.
Over 150,000 members of the general public have signed the governments own e-Petition website calling for the Bill to be withdrawn. Polls show that nearly two thirds of voters now don’t trust the Government with the NHS.
The Government’s attempt at dismissing these concerns as groups protecting their members’ self interests is not only offensive to the professional bodies, but also does a grave disservice to the general public, who did not vote for these changes and are rightly worried about what the Bill will bring. Now there is mounting concern from within the NHS itself, as well as from academics, about the impact of the Bill on our healthcare system.
What does the government have to hide in refusing the information commissioner’s request to publish details of the risk register?
Will you support the demand to publish the risk register so that the full facts emerge before the bill and amendments are debated in Parliament.
As MP for Wyre Forest you were wrong in your support to sell off the Forests. Do the right thing and vote for the full risk register to be published.
