• £15ph minimum pay for all NHS employees
    The NHS is under a constant growing strain, with all members from all areas of the MDT feeling the push and are having to work twice as hard to meet with the ever-growing need, and let's face it these people's are saving lives...., missing out on there quality family time so they can keep your family's happy by giving you the gift of more time with your loved ones, these people are constantly training to update there skills spending hours of studying to help improve new way of helping us in the future. Yet some of these people are payed less then someone that could be found stacking shelves at your local supermarket. I believe all NHS workers should receive a minimum of £15ph.
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  • Get rid of the tampon tax
    A woman doesn't get to choose whether she has a period or not and it's certainly not enjoyable. Why are they classed as a luxury if you can't choose whether or not you want to use them.
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  • Ban social media from under 16 year olds
    To safeguard all children who fall into this catergory. Open and free access to social media of this age group is opening up access to paedophiles and is currently leading to vile and sickening acts being carried out by these sick people. We need to put a stop to this now before more children fall victim and have their lives ruined. The world will then lose the ability to have real time interaction with real children which is what needs to be done.
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  • Save Sandfield House
    Sandfield house is a beacon of hope in our community for people who struggle with mental health issues, over the years it has helped countless individuals also their families have piece of mind knowing their loved one is safe and looked after.
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  • Legalise up to 4 cannabis plants for medicinal use (oil cbd plant)
    https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/i-was-trying-to-save-my-own-lifecancer-sufferer-speaks-out-after-case1/
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  • Failure to ensure accurately declared provenance of Freemantle 2015
    “It is the responsibility of everyone involved to ensure that the published record is an unbiased, accurate representation of research.” [X1] The failure of the Freemantle 2015 study's provenance, published in the BMJ in September 2015, to be accurately declared has been demonstrated by a significant body of evidence detailed below. As a result the study in its current form is misleading to readers. This failure to accurately declare the study's provenance has been exploited by both Jeremy Hunt and the Department of Health, who have repeatedly cited this study as 'independent' when using this study to justify their controversial 7 day NHS reforms. The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has not to date, responded to a detailed complaint, which outlined the detailed evidence listed below which accurately details the study’s provenance. The BMJ is as an internationally respected institution and has a pedigree for quality of academic research worldwide. BMJ publications which originate from, or exert a profound influence on, government health policy should accept the same level of scrutiny, no matter the results of the study. A failure to accurately declare a study’s provenance is not adequate, whether this relates to the role of the pharmaceutical industry or any other organisation. X1. PLoS Medicine Editors. An unbiased scientific record should be everyone’s agenda. PLoS Med2009;6:e1000038. The petition is supported by Dr Benjamin Dean, Professor Trish Greenhalgh, Professor Alastair Hall, Dr Phil Hammond, Dr Rachel Clarke, Dr Johann Malawana, Dr Lauren Gavaghan, Dr Dominic Pimenta, Mr Simon Fleming, , Professor David Colquhoun, Dr Zoe Norris, Dr David Wrigley, Dr Dagan Lonsdale, Dr Taryn Youngstein, Dr Jeeves Wijesuriya, Dr Louise Irvine, Dr Kambiz Boomla, Dr Jackie Applebee, Dr Anna Livingstone, Miss Stella Vig, Dr David Nicholl, Dr Jonathan Sturgeon, Dr Ben White, Professor Chris Oliver, Dr Philippa Whitford MP Appendix of background and evidence - The BMJ published this Freemantle study in 2015(1) - It stated “This article arose from a request by Bruce Keogh to update our earlier analyses with more recent data” and did not mention any role of NHS England or NHS England’s CEO Simon Stevens in the commissioning of the study - The Freemantle study has been widely, publicly cited on multiple occasions as an ‘independent’ study by the Department of Health and Jeremy Hunt(7,8) - Bruce Keogh’s testimony from the Health Select Committee in 2016 states: “One of the challenges that Simon asked me to do was to go back and look at more recent figures to see whether the mortality still prevails”(2) - The BMJ published an erratum in March 2016 which failed to mention the role of Simon Stevens in the origin of the study9 and a Bruce Keogh letter also failed to make clear the full origin of the Freemantle study(10) - Letters published subsequently in the BMJ have provided further sources of evidence confirming the precise context and origins of Freemantle 2015 (3,11) - An email sent on the 3rd February 2015 by a Deloitte employee to officials at NHS England including Bruce Keogh reveals the involvement of Deloitte and Simon Stevens(3). The main questions arising from this meeting involving Stevens, Keogh and Deloitte included ‘What is the clinical case for seven day services, especially re mortality?’ and the resulting action was documented as ‘Bruce agreed to have the mortality analysis from 2008 updated’. - The BMJ Editor Fiona Godlee stated in August 2017 “The BMJ to which the authors have responded. They have said that this was not the case. The letters can be viewed on our website.” - The ICMJE guidelines on conflicts of interest are clear and state "Are there other relationships or activities that readers could perceive to have influenced, or that give the appearance of potentially influencing, what you wrote in the submitted work?" - The BMJ’s own guidance on provenance states ‘who had the idea for the article’ - The Oxford Dictionary defines commission as “An instruction, command, or role given to a person or group.” 1. Freemantle N, Ray D, McNulty D, et al. Increased mortality associated with weekend hospital admission: a case for expanded seven day services? BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 2015;351. 2. Hall A. Rapid response by Professor Alastair Hall BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 2015;http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h4596/rr-41. 3. Dean BJF. Further evidence relating to the study's background emerges. BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 2016:http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i1762/rr-1760. 4. Rimmer A. Watchdog warns pay review body over use of unpublished seven day working data. BMJ Careers. 2017;http://careers.bmj.com/careers/advice/Watchdog_warns_pay_review_body_over_use_of_unpublished_seven_day_working_data. 5. Hunt J. Hunt response to Hawking. Guardian. 2017;https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/27/stephen-hawking-nhs-wrong-policy-jeremy-hunt. 6. Hunt J. Hunt Tweet re Freemantle 'most comprehensive'. Twitter. 2017;https://twitter.com/Jeremy_Hunt/status/898666809456566274. 7. Hansard. Jeremy Hunt questions. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmhansrd/cm151013/debtext/151013-0001.htm#15101344000004. 2015. 8. DH. Department of Health summary of weekend effect evidence. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/research-into-the-weekend-effect-on-hospital-mortality/research-into-the-weekend-effect-on-patient-outcomes-and-mortality. 2016. 9. Increased mortality associated with weekend hospital admission: a case for expanded seven day services? BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 2016;352(i1762). 10. Keogh B. Bruce Keogh rapid response 71. BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 2016;http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h4596/rr-71. 11. Dean B. The full political context was not adequately declared. BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 2016;http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i1762/rr.
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  • Ultrasound or MRI breast screening for pre menopausal women
    Mammograms often do not pick up breast cancer for woman who are pre menopausal or have dense breast tissue. In fact according to the NCI (National Cancer Institute), at the time of screening, mammograms miss up to 20% of cancers which are already present in the patient. This could lead to deadly consequences for many women. Help make breast cancer screening more effective and save lives.
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  • Replace Weybridge Walk in Centre
    The Weybridge Walk in Centre was at the heart of Weybridge and needs to be replaced. The CCG are intending that Weybridge residents in need of emergency care will have to travel to St Peters or Woking. Both alternatives are overstretched at the moment. This is assuming that people can get to either location as this is very hard for those who require to use public transport. BRING BACK THE CENTRE IT IS NEEDED, WE NEED IT.
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  • Save South Tyneside District Hospital
    Because the population of South Tyneside are struggling to get medical attention with shift of facilities from south shields to sunderland. The town of south shields becomes unsafe and unaccessible to live in. The elderly and chronic patients will have to shift from their beautiful town of south shields and move to sunderland to have an easy access to facilities, the town of south shields will become an unsafe place to live in specially in an emergency, the shut down of STFT will create more of unemployment, the nursing homes in south shields will have to slowly close down due to reduction of residents because who would prefer to live in a town with no access to health facilities. This is what happens to south tyneside if the departments of STFT are close down, eventually shutting down the only acute care facility in this town forever.
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  • Medicinal use of Cannabis to Save a child's life
    Alfie's seizures are controlled by an intravenous steroid, but these over-powerful drugs are shortening his life. Children in Holland with similar seizures are successfully treated with medicinal cannabis, and in Eire individual Consultants can be licenced to administer cannabis. But in UK medicinal use of cannabis has been caught up in the arguments about the misuse of drugs. So medics can treat with morphine but can't treat with cannabis. Alfie is caught in the crossfire, and will have a short and difficult life unless a cannabis treatment is given as all other treatment have proved unsuccessful.
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  • Vote for cannabis legalisation
    This is important as it is in our right to be able to do with our bodies as we choose, as it stands the government seem to believe that us people can be treated like children told what we can or can't do with our bodies, we should have right to make that decision for ourselves, not told it is for our own good, drinking is much more harmful than any strain of cannabis in existence yet that is legal. I'm not saying all drugs should be legal but I do suggest there should be a choice for all minimum risk drugs such as cannabis, atleast this way us as the people of UK we can make our own mind up as to whether we think we should be able to have cannabis for our own use rather than a room full of people who are not part of the public, who destroy people's lives over this drug. Give us a choice, the government are supposed to support there people not oppose them.
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  • Lockers?
    Children are being forced to carry an obscene amount of textbooks
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