Dear fellow members of the community psychology section,
I wonder whether others share concerns about the Health and Social Care bill - and about the lack of BPS voice on this?
See letter below which I have sent to the BPS president.
Do others have any thoughts about whether there is anything else we as a section might want or be able to do - at this late stage...? Or is anyone enaged in any action which others might help with?
Good wishes,
Annie Mitchell
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From: Annie Mitchell
Sent: 08 February 2012 23:08
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Subject: Health and Social Care Bill : BPS position?
Dear Dr Allen
I attach a press release which was sent out to south west press today, after a meeting of our local branch of Keep our NHS PUblic (South West). Many of the members of this branch ( psychologists, medics, patients, carers and academics) were co-signatories of a letter I recently wrote to The Psychologist which we hope will be published, asking that the BPS survey its members and, if it turns out that the majority are opposed to the Bill, that we join with other professional bodies in speaking out about it. I am very disapponted that as my professional body the BPS appears not ,so far, to have taken up the issue. I hope that even now at this late hour, when at last there is some flicker of hope that it may be defeated, that we add our voices to those of others who care about people's wellbeing and see that this Bill is not the way to promote it.
Please can you let me know the BPS position on the BIll?
Yours,
Annie Mitchell AFBPS
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