NHS cuts protesters take to Hull city centre
Health campaigners took to the streets of Hull City Centre today to highlight cuts local consultants say will see patient care “critically eroded” across the region.
Grass roots campaigners Save our NHS Hull and East Yorkshire group organised a 500 strong mass march in September but organisers say the action today was about keeping public awareness high.
Secretary Dermot Rathbone, of Kirk Ella, said: "The message is that these cuts are being criticised as critically eroding patient care and we are responding to the fears of the local doctors who have been very vocal about the fact they are unhappy with the way this has been handled."
The group were handing out leaflets and asking shoppers to sign a petition, which already has 5,000 names on it, calling for a rebate to protect vital front line services. The petition, which says, ten wards and 300 acute beds face the axe because of the cuts, will be sent to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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Co-chair Lyn Longbottom, a retired nurse, said: "All you hear about is bad nursing and poor care but they are pushed to their limits. There is a lot going on in the hospital but they are not being given time to do their jobs properly.
I don’t think people are aware that these cuts are going on right now and so we decided to come out when we knew the town centre would be busy to spread the word and to listen to people's concerns."
Co-chair Patrick Smith added: "The people of this area face over £1/4 billion in cuts from this Government when you take into account the money being clawed back across the board. David Cameron told us in 2010 that there would be no NHS cuts and that front line services would be protected. The public are angry and simply want to hold him account on these broken promises."
Comments
by steveodore
Sunday, December 16 2012, 11:39PM
“unified,
Please refrain from aiming your comments at me. If you wish to carry on, then have the decency to visit an NHS optician for some glasses. That way you may actually get my name right, you thick commy plank.
HCAFScab,
Shouldn't you be posting about things that are relevant to your locale. Things like the price of rock and the annual influx of winter heroin addicts into the holiday flats.
Stick to talking about football with the other sheep and leave the proper stuff to the grown ups.”
by dannydarko222
Sunday, December 16 2012, 10:36PM
“NHS cuts protesters take to Hull city centre......
But don't appear to make double figures !”
by SPBlakeney
Sunday, December 16 2012, 7:28PM
“Given that the NHS budget was £106 BILLION for 2011/12, where does it stop? There needs to be less knee-jerk placard waving, and frankly ludicrous premonitions of 'deaths' by 'Tories'.
What has to take place is a debate on funding. The sooner the protesters realise their wages are actually funded by unsustainable borrowing,borrowing which pays for our welfare/health budget month in month out,the sooner they might realise theyll have to put their pay packets where their mouths are,and cough up a lot more in national insurance/other taxes. How many would agree to more deductions from their NHS monthly payslips for THAT?”
by HCAFCscarb
Sunday, December 16 2012, 7:11PM
“steveodore
i seriously think you need to see your doctor about depression
i notice every single post / comment you make is a negative one.
i feel sorry for you for being so miserable..”
by unified
Sunday, December 16 2012, 6:00PM
“Stevordoe
You would if they where the only ones LEFT to treat you.
just as a matter of interest, are you slater oall the health workers who object to the destruction of OUR NHS AS COMMUNISTS. if soyou are a bigger fool than I thought”
by steveodore
Saturday, December 15 2012, 8:50PM
“Who cares what a few communists think.”
by JayOnly
Saturday, December 15 2012, 8:14PM
“All protest is a waste of time unless it involves violence and unrest that needs the police to control it. 'It' has hardly started...you ain't seen nothing yet.”
by unified
Saturday, December 15 2012, 7:50PM
“There is one thing for certain, left to some one like you lot, the NHS would dissapear before you got of your bacvk side.”
by HoratioNelson
Saturday, December 15 2012, 3:34PM
“I saw this lot earlier in town. I know they are well- meaning but this wasn't really the time of year to raise public awareness on things like this.
Also, the hand-written signs were dreadful, most of them nothing to do with the NHS but tax.”