Andrew Lansley’s NHS listening exercise closes in just 4 days. We need to move fast to flood it with objections to his dangerous plans.
Thousands of personal submissions to the listening exercise will make it much harder for Lansley to spin the results. He’ll have to publish the figures, whether he likes it or not. They will tell a clear story: the overwhelming response is against these dangerous changes to the NHS.
It’s easy and fast to send your message to the listening exercise using the 38 Degrees website. It only takes a couple of minutes. There are suggestions for what issues to raise, and you can see what other 38 Degrees members are already saying.
Get started here:
http://www.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-listening-exercise
There are signs our pressure is starting to work. Yesterday, Nick Clegg said he thought Lansley’s plans need to be watered down and delayed. [1] But today’s Daily Telegraph reports that Conservative hardliners have started planning their fightback. They are determined to rush Lansley’s plan through. [2] We need to keep the pressure growing!
We’ve already created a huge stir this week with our hard-hitting newspaper adverts. Next week we will submit a copy of our 400,000-strong petition. So now, let’s back all of that up with thousands of personal submissions telling the listening exercise we don’t want our NHS ruined.
We have got until 5 PM on Tuesday, May 31 to send messages. Send yours now:
http://www.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-listening-exercise
Lansley wants to use the listening exercise to claim he’s building support for his plans, so he can plough ahead. But by working together we can make that impossible.
The British Medical Association’s own submission to the listening exercise says Lansley’s plans should be scrapped. [3] Nurses’ groups, health care charities and patient groups all seem to agree. [4] If we all keep working together, we can protect our NHS for future generations.
The listening exercise closes in four days. Please take a couple of minutes to write in now:
http://www.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-listening-exercise
