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I think we are in the middle of a comedy event, cutting benefits but getting the wrong people, bedroom tax but getting the wrong people once again, chasing pensioners so some are making a lot out of retirement but the majority are not, I am not, I was OK but now things are getting a little fraught, not too bad at the moment but things are going downhill for most of us, one thing for sure is that a pension in in no way a benefit!! it is a right!, why so?, well I as many have paid in for 50 years or more so I have to say to the government get off our backs and be responsible towards the elderly in this country, Duncan Smith wants to get out of it, he has no idea as to how us common people scrape a living. 

NHS

We have to be aware that the government if we are not careful will open the back door to private companies to have the upper hand when submitting their application to provide a service for the NHS, it seems that the NHS will become fragmented and much of the services that you now receive in hospital will be outsourced to private health companies, we have to have the best service for patients I agree but how do we know that these companies will be able to provide a competent service to patients, they have to be on a level playing field it is not an acceptable fact that they should be preferred above the service that is offered as is.

The idea that GP's know best in regard to commissioning is a fallacy they do not, commissioning is a specialist knowledge so that was why we had the PCT, so the government has got rid of the PCT, well No in fact they have reformed under the new white paper as a Clinical Commissioning Group much of the same people different name, also the Strategic Health Authority is due to go but no it is still there just under a different name, so why all this turmoil your guess is as good as mine!!

NHS

Some common sense has possibly happened with the Government, after great pressure from 38 Degrees, hundreds of thousands of people signed a petition in a very short time, also many GP's and doctors petitioned the government, so the new rules will be re written to ensure that the private sector does not have a better chance when presenting during the commissioning  process, we have to hope this is now sorted.

NHS

I watched James Martin on TV yesterday morning, he has introduced well cooked local food for patients in hospital in Scarborough, proper soups made each day, meat produced close by, but there is a fly in the ointment!, NHS procurement rules, this stupid set of rules is stifling good quality food, this leaves most hospitals in the country cutting food budgets (staff) by using "cook and freeze" this is food prepared off site by outside companies leaving the food just to be heated at the hospital either steaming or microwave, so I think that this can only leave patients spending more time in hospital recovering, the answer has to be better fresh made food on site, this does not mean a rise in costs it can in fact make a profit for the hospital but more importantly better for the patient meaning shorter stays and a better outcome for them, we have to look closely at this I noticed that 70% of nurses would not want their family to spend time in their hospital that statement says loads, do the people who control the NHS listen? not likely, of course they know what is best for us!!, I think not!!. 

NHS Food

The NHS does not seem to want to look after the older patient, some have had to have a prescription for would you believe WATER, the very basic for life, the next thing being food, now I have to agree time is a problem here, how can they possibly spend so much time with the elderly who have to have constant help to eat, but help is what has to be given you can't just leave these patients to die because they have not eaten or had a drink, why should they worry? they have many other things to worry them i.e. paper work, the hospital could not exist with out their targets, it is not I believe the responsibility of the nursing staff to complete nonsensical paper work, it is their job to nurse patients need their help not see them sitting in the nurses station filling in forms, so they must look into just what they are into the job for!!!.
The problem with food in a hospital is that much of it is frozen food rather than fresh, as a time saver many have gone to cook and freeze, this food is produced by an off site company and then sent to the hospital and reheated, can that be good for you??  it is no  help at all and it has to be said that this type of food does nothing to aid recovery, the only way is to provide proper fresh cooked food with local veg and meat, not difficult but they seem to think that they are saving money but at what cost, I always thought it was for the NHS to make you well not worse!, so they have to start thinking about the well being of the patient not the hospital budget.

Can I recommend that you look at the 38 Degrees web site and if you have a  wish to support the NHS join this lobbying group.
   

NHS

This is getting a real pain in the bum, our illustrious Health Minister is playing games again with the NHS, for some reason this government has a downer on the NHS, placing impossible restrictions on it, this just might be the end of the NHS as we know it, it is remarkable that today's MP's seem to have a total disregard for the health of the Nation, why is it that they promote private companies to provide health services?, is it because many just might be directors of these companies? who knows not I, but some thing or one is up to no good, I would have thought and expected that any government who wants to play about with our health should go to the country and secure a mandate to behave in the manner that they are at the moment, they have no mandate for the plans that they are implementing now, so I have to say beware you might open your eyes when it's too late.

Living in England

I have to ask just what the hell this government doing to the elderly in this country, is it their intention to kill us all off to save money in pension payments?, maybe!, just heard that a pension is a benefit!!, no it isn't, we have paid into the pot for 50 years or more to receive this pension it has nothing to do with benefits, so on your bike Mr Cameron and you as well as Mr Clegg, age will come to you sooner than you think!, but of course why should you worry your future is well looked after you will not want for food, heat or any other pleasure in life, so it is us that have to worry, many of us on the bread line, either heating or eating not both, so we can vote you out, yes we can but just look at the alternative Ed the incompetent, or Ed Balls who can't add up but aspires to greatness as chancellor fat chance, so what can we do?, nothing we just have to hope and pray sooner or later hopefully sooner that these idiots will realise the pain they are inflicting on the elderly and the disabled as well.