'Cut foreign aid, and use all the monies saved to help the NHS'
Watch this postThose of you who have been reading the forum relating to NHS funding have seen my ideas vis á vis the use of the foreign aid budget. I am organising an e-mail petition to Parliament, which will read as follows:- “Cut foreign aid, and use all the monies saved to help the NHS, It is obvious that the NHS requires more financial help. This extra financial help could come from cutting the foreign aid budget.” I need the endorsement of five people so that my petition can be published: thus enabling people to vote in its favour. I believe that if I can get 100,000 signatories a debate can be forced in Parliament. Please click this link to sign the petition. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/177775/sponsors/Tay3xAPncQp8WJo6w I have obtained the site moderators permission to publicise my petition. I have been helped by Lionel, who confirms he will be one of the five signatories the petition requires. Should you agree please send your endorsement to the above address. Many thanks.
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It is a sign of a civilised country that we help others. If all you have is despair then people will become economic migrants and seek to get into Europe
MP's are supposed to attend some parliamentary sessions so what is the problem? They are quite capable of 'multi-tasking' and thus able to respond to both petitions being raised and correspondence from constituents, surely that is what they are elected to do.
I have no answer to your questions as to how many petitions are successful or how many MP's attend to hear them being read but I do know the Suffragettes never gave up!
If we all take the stand that it's a waste of time as nothing changes then nothing changes. I'll continue to sign petitions for those things I believe in and hope that eventually it may make a difference.
In or out ,Europe the World ,Hope and despair ,Love and rage
Future prosperity or endless hardship
Endless possibilities pointless debates .Resolution required .NOW.
Your nursing experience and my social care experience reflects informed opinion of a pratical nature.
There;s them that talk and them that do. Everybody has a different opinion based on various experiences within the NHS as patients, visiting family,staff and all the associated services required to keep the system running.However one thing is for sure we are nearly all grateful to receive care and compassion in time of need or at least advice when required. Cheers NHS.
We all know that change is necessary and is the present situation causing people to go private and is that part of the plan?
It's not just people who are admitted to hospitals who overburden the NHS. I worked in a GP surgery and an Iranian family who had lived and worked in the UK for years registered their mother who, they said, had come over from Iran to live with them for 6 months. She was on a load of medication so after seeing the GP and the nurse she was given a repeat prescription for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease and the list went on. Everything seemed okay and the prescription was ordered every month. However, when the lady was recalled for a flu injection and a medication check she was "on holiday" and couldn't attend the surgery. The excuses kept coming leaving the GPs with the dilemma of stopping the medication and risking an exacerbation in symptoms and accusations of neglect or continuing issuing the medication with the hope that the lady would eventually come in to see them. We eventually found out that this lady had only stayed in the UK for a few weeks and had then returned home to Iran and her family were stock-piling her medication and taking it to her when they visited.
The NHS needs a thorough overhaul - there are too many fat-cat chiefs and not enough indians - that's probably not a PC way of expressing myself which is why I have used lower-case letters for chiefs and indians! Rant over - time for a cuppa!
I would agree that if a professional person has done everything as expected and things still go wrong then litigation isn't appropriate, people may try but are not nearly as successful as people think. But there are a small number of occasions when it can be proven the professional didn't act as expected, took an unnecessary risk with a negative outcome. Yes, there are times when risks have to be taken but the risks and benefits should be weighed up, something an experienced person can do in seconds, but sadly there are some who do not do this. These cases are the difficult ones. Maybe if the government and news media didn't look for a scapegoat, other wouldn't either.
Our dear country is no longer able to keep looking after everyone else, it now has people here who need our help, its time to put England first, and then if we have excess funds help other countries....
1) set up a system whereby the NHS sends the invoice to the embassy of the country to which the foreign national belongs.
2) ensure that everyone that visits this country shows proof they carry suitable/valid health insurance.
Or am I being too simplistic?
Many travellers do have health insurance but it may not always cover every eventuality as many UK residents have found when they have had health problems abroad. How do we prevent such people from leaving the country before they have payed the full amount? If they have promised to pay and then do not, what can be done? Our government wouldn't pay the cost of a UK resident abroad so why should another countries government pay us?
I don't agree with the abuse but have no real answer as to how it can be prevented.