Showing posts with label British Medical Journal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British Medical Journal. Show all posts

Thursday 5 December 2013

UK, A Hungry Nation.


      While our Oxbridge millionaires, sitting in The Westminster Houses of Hypocrisy and Corruption, mouth off about “growth” and “making the right decisions” and the blue corner waffles with the red corner with meaningless phrases and lots of “here, here's”, you and I see hunger and desperation. This is one of the richest nations on the planet, yet its people go hungry. The Trussell Trust, which has 400 food banks across the UK, states that it handed out food parcels to more than 350,000 people, between April and September this year. What makes this even more criminal is the fact that a third of these were children. The number of people relying on food banks for survival has tripled over the last year.
        Here in the UK it is not just a handful of families that are somehow in need of help. This is a national crisis caused by the deliberate actions of the bankster friendly government. This is a nation slowly being driven to deprivation by forced “austerity”. Some leading experts state that in the UK hunger has now reached the level of a “public health emergency” A recent letter to the British Medical Journal signed by a group of senior academics from two leading universities, the Medical Research Council and a group of doctors, said that the effect of Government policies on vulnerable people’s ability to afford food needed to be “urgently” monitored.
        There letter states that there has been a rapid rise in the number of people requiring emergency food aid, plus the doubling of the number of cases of malnutrition seen in hospitals, and a rapid fall in the number of calories being consumed by the public at large. They state that these are, “all the signs of a public health emergency that could go unrecognised until it is too late to take preventative action,” Research into this problem, commissioned by the Government itself, has had its publication delayed, we can only speculate that the reason is that the government may find its result embarrassing.
        This is the meaning of “austerity”, this is the ConDem's “steady growth”, this is Osborne's “right decisions”, this is the financial mafia's plans falling into place. Sweatshop Britain leading the way to sweatshop Europe. We have been told that these policies will continue until 2020, how many food banks will we need by then, how many cases of malnutrition will the hospitals handle by then? This is the promise of another 7 years of falling wages, slashing benefits and social services, and rising prices. Where will your standard of living be by then? Do you honestly believe that at that magical 2020, everything will suddenly be great, and hunger and poverty will disappear? Accept it, if you accept this present system, you accept an endless downward spiral to poverty and deprivation. Surely you want more than this.
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Sunday 22 May 2011

PROFIT FROM ILLNESS!!!

        The title of a recent article in the British Medical Journal should perhaps create some cause for concern. The title was, “How the Secretary of State for Health proposes to abolish the NHS in England”. There are those who shout, “scaremongering” but to any open minded individual it soon becomes obvious that it is an accurate assessment of the proposed changes to the NHS in England.

       The article states that the proposed Bill will fundamentally change the basic premise of the NHS, pointing out that the duty of the Secretary of State to provide comprehensive health care will be abolished. The government will hand over its responsibility for health care of UK citizens to commercial consortia whose primary function and driving force will be economic, seeking profit, not health and well being of the people. As commercial concerns these organisations will be governed by trade laws which mandates free competition. As commercial enterprises they are obligated by law to seek the best possible profit for the shareholders. How will that square with long term expensive care, or a quick fix as opposed to a long term cure?
NEW TEST FOR ASSESSING TREATMENT!!

      The “pause” that the Cameron/Clegg public school thugs have proposed is just that, a “pause”, not a change. I suppose the millionaire duo and their team will hope that the “pause” will let the opposition die down and then they can remove the “pause” and carry on as before.

      Calling for changes to this “privatisation” Bill is not what should be sought, it must be scrapped or we accept a national private health system, a money making paradise for the corporate greed machine, and for those who can't afford it, a second rate health system.