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Dear Annie and list members, Thanks for raising this on the list, since it resonates with a recent discussion at our BPS Community Psychology Section committee meeting. We share your concerns about the impact of the proposed Bill. Since our Section represents around 220 BPS members, we are interested in whether the Society would be making a statement, given that the full membership is around 49 000. I have emailed the BPS president to enquire about the position of the Society, and will email again once I have a response. All the best, Jacqui -----Original Message----- From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Annie Mitchell Sent: 08 February 2012 23:19 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] Health and Social Care Bill : BPS position? dear all... sorry I got my email lists mixed up = glad this has gone to the full UK discussion list - so it should have read dear fellow community psycholgists....but equally I would be keen for British Psychological Society community section members to respond too - I know these are overlapping but separate groups....and am aware that there is so much to challenge re UK current politics - the Welfare Bill is another awful bit of legislation too....and so little time and energy to focus our efforts.... Annie ________________________________ From: Annie Mitchell Sent: 08 February 2012 23:17 To: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List Subject: FW: Health and Social Care Bill : BPS position? 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 ________________________________ From: Annie Mitchell 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 ___________________________________ There is a twitter feed: http://twitter.com/CommPsychUK (to post contact Grant [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe or to change your details on this COMMUNITYPSYCHUK list, visit the website: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=COMMUNITYPSYCHUK ___________________________________ There is a twitter feed: http://twitter.com/CommPsychUK (to post contact Grant [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe or to change your details on this COMMUNITYPSYCHUK list, visit the website: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=COMMUNITYPSYCHUK