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A survey by Pulse magazine– a weekly publication for GPs – shows only 12% of GPs in the UK trust the Conservative Party with management of the NHS.
To give an idea if how newsworthy this is – a similar poll in 2010 found as many as 53% of GPs were planning to vote Conservative at the general election.
Today, Labour is by far the most trusted party by GPs to manage the NHS.
Here’s the article:
GP support for Conservatives plummets as party loses trust over health policies
This information must obviously be extremely damaging for the government because it was entirely ignored by the mainstream media.
And the magazine itself released the survey around midday on May the 1st – much too late for any canvassers to use it on the doorstep in the local elections.
Funny timing that.
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Related articles by Tom Pride:
Why Lord Warner really supports NHS reform. He’ll make loads of money from it.
Dr Michael Dixon – the quack now in charge of the NHS budget
Sue Ryder executives looking to profit from the privatisation of NHS services
Austerity caused the Mid-Staffs NHS scandal. Cameron’s answer? More austerity.
Cameron’s Big Society – TOFFS paying SPIVS to rip off PLEBS
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Pride's Purge 
WHICH Tories?.
Because, when you are as Left Wing as I am, They are ALL Tories.
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gp’s and other eminants within nhs…must make the distinction between politics and patient care…imho..and they must do this soon..as the hour is a getting late..still at least on paper they move in the humane direction…they start to believe the unthinkable….and the unthinkable can happen….so good on ’em….encore.encore,encore….
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I wonder how many barristers still support the Tories too… and police, Military Generals… So that leaves the financial sector and corporations. No surprise.
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Wonder how many teachers still support the LDs?
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It’d be interesting to see a national breakdown of the votes. The NHS in Scotland and Wales are separate from the English NHS and are controlled by the devolved governments. I doubt either of those countries will let the Tories anywhere near the reins of power ever again.
The only problem is that the funding comes from the block grants that Wales and Scotland currently receive. If the Tories cut that sufficiently, the devolved parliaments will have no option other than to cut funding.
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jim russell..
what links all 3 budgets, and has a distinct and corrosive affect on them…and i know that scottish gp’s et al are currently not happy with?
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Reblogged this on kickingthecat.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1516095/Blair-defends-rise-that-put-GPs-on-250000-a-year.html
This is why GP’s back labour. especially when their salaries rise and their” out of hours “hours decrease.
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but all this started with thatcher then used by blair and brown even changing the way they payed dentist upsetting them loads pulling out of their scheme ,but to today cams says its safe in his hands yes its safe to say hes selling it off to his colleges and mates so now the doctors can see through their shitte but isnt it a bit late in the day has labour isnt going to chaNGE IT EITHER JEFF3
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This is a case of professional middle class politicians looking after middle class professionals financially, the fact that they are willing to take such rises while their patients are being robbed of their benefits knocks me sick.
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If every GP in the UK were to plead the ESA 2013 Regulations* in respect of EVERY patient on their books claiming ESA, it would break ESA, Atos/WCA and disabled workfare within a month.
It would be justified in EVERY case because the negative stress of being found fit to work or forced into ‘work related activity’ – despite having been signed off as medically unfit for work – must always carry a risk of harm.
This risk obtains in the chronically ill or disabled, in anyone with a degenerative condition, in anyone with a mental health disorder, and in all those attempting to recover from short-term ilnesses and injuries.
It would also save GPs time if they simply printed off a standard letter invoking the Regs (like a kind of Trump Card Sicknote), in respect of each patient’s diagnosis – rather than having to argue the toss every time about how many MS antibodies or whatever might live on the head of a pin to try to satisfy Atos’ lurgy quotas.
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*The doctors’ letter calls on the British Medical Association (BMA) to help publicise two little-known Employment and Support (ESA) 2013 regulations, which a doctor can use to flag up cases where there is a substantial risk “to the mental or physical health of any person” if the claimant is found fit for work:
http://blacktrianglecampaign.org/2012/11/21/important-black-triangle-dpac-regs-25-31-as-amended-april-2013-campaign-failed-your-dwpatos-wca-intend-to-appeal-download-these-documents-for-your-gp/
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Doctors are NOT just in it for the money… they’re upset that our NHS is being privatised and that it will harm patients. “Doctors accuse Tories of ‘shafting’ them over reforms and just 19% intend to vote for them” http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/doctors-accuse-conservatives-shafting-over-1864807
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Tom – re your recent twitter spat with Poulton. It is not just her. She has a band of her mates doing this – the people who are leaping on you now. They are worried, as well they might be. I think people who tweet using mobiles are vulnerable, but i don’t know the specifics. Something similar was done to various people in the recent Old Holborn bust up. It needs investigating, but that lot she is currently running with are terrible bullies and people are afraid to call them out. Poulton is a nut, I know that much.
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hardly surprising when you have jeremy huny as health sec, a man who hates the NHS..
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or even jeremy hunt
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Reblogged this on Teesside Solidarity Movement.
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Plan to reblog this. Thanks
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Reblogged this on The SKWAWKBOX Blog and commented:
Excellent spot by Tom Pride – only 12% of GPs trust the Tories with the NHS. Another story the national media is ignoring completely..
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anon..WOW…this is profound in many directions…so one is led on a (not so) merry dance!…i’m still getting my head around the implications of this for myself and others..
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NHS patient
From what I can gather GP’s when they accepted their increases signed a non-interference clause in health and social policy – silenced.
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……or even jeremy the hun? — He looks so incredibly smart when dressed in his full nazi uniform and I think if any NHS nurses were to see him in it they would go wild !! :)-
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The majority of GP’s, 35% of those polled, trusted no political party to manage the NHS.
Why can’t the NHS be removed from the grasp of all politicians and political parties and be managed by a non-partisan board of trustees with statutory funding who would have the power to make policy decisions, instead of the constant see saw situation that we have with each successive government?
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aynuck
We should have the same set up with welfare benefits also as both are part of the welfare state. I would like to see a reduction in the top rates of pay to those working in either of the organizations also.
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The setting of targets is one of the reasons for the alleged failure of hospital care, Stafford was a case in point.
There is a growing body of anecdotal evidence which points to targets being put in place to reduce benefit claims and to reduce the overall cost through dubious methods such as the suspension of benefit payments for spurious ‘offences’.
I’d be in favour of sacking ministers and civil servants who impose these targets on front line staff, never mind reducing their salaries if trustees ran the wefare state, but of course it will never happen.
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