Erm, well its a nurse and I imagine you would need to have private health care to get this kind of treatment!

Sicko - Watch this regardless of your opinion of Michael Moore. Affordable (free?) health care should not be considered a liberal or socialist quality. It should be common sense. I don't get it.

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Democrats completely missing the target even before starting.

In their rush to build consensus for universal coverage, all three leading Democratic presidential candidates avoid taking on the real culprit -- a failing private health insurance industry.

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

A night view of the The Hampshire Clinic.

The Hampshire Clinic in Basingstoke, Hampshire is an independent hospital which is part of BMI Healthcare, who are Britain's leading provider of independent healthcare. They have almost sixty hospitals in the UK performing a greater complexity of surgery than most other private healthcare providers in the UK. The hospital provides facilities for advanced surgical procedures together with friendly, professional care.

The Hampshire Clinic has 65 beds in private rooms that come with en-suite facilities, satellite TV and telephone. The hospital has four operating theatres and an outpatient theatre. In addition to the inpatient facilities, there is a comprehensive outpatient department including x-ray, health screening, physiotherapy and hydrotherapy. These facilities combined with the latest in technology and on-site support services, allow their consultants to undertake a wide range of operations from routine investigations to complex surgery.

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"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

Portrait Of Laughing Multi-Cultural Medical Team Standing In Hospital Corridor

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

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"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

"March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale" : London 17.05.2011

Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title "March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale", referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.

Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.

There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the impression they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.

All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches

Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission

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Switching from parents health coverage to individual plan, there are options one can opt for. It can be insurance through employer or there is an option of enrolling for healthcare.Gov plan.

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How much will insurance pay for stem cell therapy? Not much as it turns out, but they will continue to pay for other therapies that simply don't work goo.gl/4Nfw1j

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