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Interesting article in the tory-graph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9081988/NHS-patients-will-pay-under-health-bill.html

And a guide to the action you can take to stop it...

http://www.unitetheunion.org/sectors/health_sector/unite_4_our_nhs.aspx

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. (r) Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:51:19 +0000
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: FW: Health and Social Care Bill : BPS position?
To: [log in to unmask]

Thanks Annie,

That looks hopeful... but interesting that this hasn't appeared in a public arena as much as other professionals' organisations' actions.

Another link for direct citizen response, in case you haven't seen it already:

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/22670, which calls on the government to drop the bill.

It's already got more than the 100 000 necessary signatures to prompt a government response, but it would be good to see the numbers climbing further.

Best wishes,

Wendy

From: Annie Mitchell <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Monday, 13 February 2012, 17:02
Subject: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] FW: Health and Social Care Bill : BPS position?

Dear all,

See below ( first link) : our president has written personally to Andrew Lansley expressing lack of support for the Bill in its current form,

Annie

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From: Carole Allan [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 13 February 2012 16:39
To: Annie Mitchell
Cc: Lynn West
Subject: RE: Health and Social Care Bill : BPS position?

Dear Annie, many thanks for getting in touch about the Health and Social
Care Bill.

Please see the web link below which gives a summary of the BPS concerns
about the Bill which is currently on the website;

http://www.bps.org.uk/news/society-statement-health-and-social-care-bill

The full BPS response to the NHS Listening Exercise which we submitted last
year, again voicing significant concerns can be found at;

http://apps.bps.org.uk/_publicationfiles/consultation-responses/NHS%20Listen
ing%20Exercise%20-%20BPS%20response.pdf

The DCP undertook a survey which was reported in June of last year as
follows;

"Many Clinical Psychologists have expressed reservations with regard to the
Health and Social Care Bill. A survey of members of the British
Psychological Society's Division of Clinical Psychology revealed 95 per cent
of those polled believe the Bill will have a detrimental effect on frontline
NHS services" Details can be found at;.

http://www.bps.org.uk/news/health-and-social-care-bill-concerns

I hope this goes some way to indicating BPS engagement with the issues.

Best wishes

Carole

Dr Carole Allan
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President of British Psychological Society 2011-2012

-----Original Message-----
From: Annie Mitchell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 08 February 2012 23:08
To: [log in to unmask]
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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