The Infant Feeding Team (IFT) Support breastfeeding families through support groups or one to one appointments in hospital and community settings. Breastfeeding facilitators are highly skilled staff and they also give guidance to formula feeding mothers who need help and give advice on infant weaning. The breastfeeding facilitators are being drastically cut in number and we are wanting to save their posts in order for families to receive crucial support. The IFT help parents to: Recognise if their baby is getting enough milk. Ensure feeding is a comfortable experience for mum and baby. Identify where more help is needed. They also address medical issues such as tongue tie to help babies to feed. Increase the social capital of mothers through facilitating group and peer support networks. Since IFT (or Mum2Mum as they were previously known) was founded, breastfeeding rates in the City have risen exponentially but we are still significantly less than the national average and more support is needed to encourage breastfeeding. So budget cuts to the service seem to be particularly inappropriate. A UNICEF study found that in addition to saving the NHS £40m a year, increasing breastfeeding rates could reduce the risk of a host of childhood diseases including gastroenteritis, bronchiolitis, ear infections as well as reducing the risk of breast cancer for the mother. Stoke On Trent Council has confirmed the benefits of breastfeeding in their own report dated June 2015, stating "Evidence shows that babies are five times more likely to be admitted to hospital with gastroenteritis and more likely to be overweight or obese in later life if not breastfed." Breastfeeding also helps to tackle infant poverty and goes some way to address health and social inequalities. With present government cuts to families support in reducing family expenditure through breastfeeding is needed. Without IFT new and existing mums will struggle and are likely to cease breastfeeding their babies which will create an increase in health and socio-economic issues for babies, mothers, families, the council and the NHS. Please Sign and share to help us Save Our Infant Feeding Team #SaveOurIFT

When the NHS is stretched to the limits, this is money that could be better used.

Why should the NHS pay for this? Smoking is a choice that people make. My mum has asthma which is a life threatening condition and had to pay for her prescription. This makes me so angry that they are even considering this. The NHS is already in so much debt so why offer this?

North West Ambulance Service Patient Transport Service (PTS) is the largest provider of non-emergency patient transport in the United Kingdom - in 2013/14 they carried out approximately 1.2 million patient journeys. Bids have now been placed for the contract which is to be awarded by the clinical commissioning group on December 4th 2015. I believe that the only provider able to give high quality standards of patient care within the community is North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust. The Trust has modernised its operations which has resulted in an improved patient experience, they offer the highest quality standards by acting as a bureau/broker for patients who need transport. The Trust recognises the diverse needs of the patients and offers a specialised service for haemodialysis and cancer patients.

Another Privatisation to Capita who should not be trusted with this important service . Replacing 800 NHS Staff with 150 Capita Staff

We are currently in a GP recruitment crisis, with applications for GP training schemes falling every year. The suggested plans to cut GP registrar pay will exacerbate this trend and put even more junior doctors off a career in general practice. This will worse the current severe shortage of appointments, leading to poor patient satisfaction and putting patients at risk. The government say they want to hire another 5000 GPs by 2020, but this massive pay cut will make this an impossible target. This is another ideological attack on the NHS and its workers.

Common decency and humanity should have made this petition unnecessary. Read more here: http://www.hamhighbroadway.co.uk/news/health/fury_over_department_of_health_delay_allocating_25m_to_contaminated_blood_victims_1_4158234

It's important not to ignore duty of care, decriminalizing cannabis so that people can use it as medicine for thereselves will elevate pressure away from the n.h.s, boost the economy and help people get off the opium, heroin and morphine based drugs which are getting people addicted or worse though overuse

RNIB Scotland members all of whom are blind or partially sighted have had no say in this decision despite RNIB being "of" rather than "for" blind people and this strikes at the heart of our organisational democracy. Action for Blind People have no knowledge whatsoever of Scotland, have no presence in Scotland and we fear their takeover will put at risk the excellent services that RNIB Scotland already provide. We are also deeply concerned as blind and partially sighted people that our ability to influence decisions in Scotland will be diminished as it totally ignores the reality of devolution and the increasing focus on the Scottish Government and Scottish Parliament as the place to find advantage for blind and partially sighted people in Scotland. We were not consulted. We were not asked. We say STOP! NOW!

It is vitally important that the NHS remains in Public Hands and not carved up and sold to "health for profit Companies. By suspending all MP's private healthcare it would force them (like the rest of us (their voters/constituents)) to do something about the sell off of this much needed (and loved) Public Asset.

We want to tell the aviation industry to clean up their act. Most of you fly on aircraft. Did you know that the air you are supplied to breathe onboard on all aircraft, except the Boeing 787, comes from the engines? This air is provided unfiltered and is known to become contaminated with a complex cocktail of chemicals including organophosphates (many chemical weapons and pesticides are organophosphate based). This occurs when hazardous jet engine oils or hydraulic fluids contaminate the air supply. The High Court of Australia ruled in 2010 that inhaling these fumes is harmful yet aircraft have NO form of detection systems to warn when the air is contaminated, NO passenger is ever told when they are exposed and pilots have been totally incapacitated in flight from these exposures. Passengers and crews deserve a safe environment to fly or work in. As a former airline captain who has studied this issue for nearly 15 years, please can you support a global campaign to make air travel safer: 1. Help support the development of a blood test to prove exposure to contaminated air on aircraft at: www.gcaqe.org/bloodtest 2. Help support the documentary film AEROTOXIC that will tell the whole story at: www.aerotoxicfilm.com 3. Become informed. Read the educational brochure at: http://gcaqe.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/GCAQE-CAQ-Brochure-17-MAY-2015.pdf Thank you.

The Guildhall Walk Walk-In Centre is facing a possible closure due to a decision by health bosses to move the walk-in service to St Marys Hospital. It would be a tragedy if the Guildhall Walk Walk-In Centre is closed down as St Mary's already struggles to provide a service for people with minor injuries and waiting times are often long. The Guildhall Walk Walk-In Centre is very successful and is well used 8am - 8pm, 365 days a year and is available to everyone who wants to see a doctor fairly urgently but can't get in to see their registered GP. If we lose this, we will lose a well-established service and it will be much more difficult to get to see a Doctor urgently in the future. Please sign the petition and Save this Walk-In Centre. https://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/emergencydoctors