• Right to receive full eye test prescription so you can use online companies
    Most spectacle users knows that they can ask their opticians for a copy of their prescription enabling them to buy their glasses anywhere, another opticians or a much cheaper online company. Well, I say this, but it is only if you have single vision lenses. Did you know that if you have varifocals, you are able to take your prescription to any high street opticians but you can't make use of online services as a key measurement is missed off of the prescription! This means when you go to another opticians, this measurement will be taken so that the correct glasses are ordered. Obviously, online companies cannot take this measurement and if you tried to do it yourself at home, it might not be completely accurate. So, this means, that varifocal users are being unfairly financially penalised and discriminated against as they can't take advantage of much cheaper online options.
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    Created by Michelle Grace
  • NHS to Give IVF twice
    As amazing as it is the NHS already give us one chance, I feel This is important because so many people now seem to have some trouble with conceiving as many more women have got infertility problems. This can be such things as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Endometriosis, which effect 1/10 women. Having 1 lot of IVF puts a lot of strain on a woman and not only the whole lm time worrying about being pregnant but a women’s stress levels double which also can cause women to miscarry or not conceive that time. I feel if women knew they have 2 chances it would take a lot of strain off us women. It costs couples thousands of pounds to go through IVF each and every time and not only if the 1st one fails it then makes it difficult for a couple to keep going through it day to day, thinking they might not ever have them, working so hard to get the money for a second try. I have seen people not have any children because it’s wore at their relationship. I know this isnt cost effective but I know it would help with so many relationships and hope to be families. I never realised how many people struggle daily with not being able to have a family.
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  • Help our children return to swimming lessons!
    During the pandemic many sports activities have been affected, yet swimming is not just a sport, it is a life skill. Many private leisure clubs have been afforded the privilege to offer swimming lessons to children throughout the pandemic, but local council run leisure centres have not. Children have missed out on learning how to swim and how to be safe in and around water. We must place pressure on our local government to allow our children to return to the water so that they can remain safe!!!
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  • Put an ambulance back in Gower
    There was a once an ambulance station located in Reynoldston Gower which responded to 999 calls. This has long gone, and this has left the people of Gower without any ambulance cover. The delays cost lives and the residents DESERVE a safer service. Speaking from personal experience earlier this year, my father suffered with a massive heart attack, we called the emergency services numerous times (over an hour time period) for assistance and on our last call to them we were told by the operator that there was no ambulance coming for him at the moment and if at all possible, to find someone with a car who could take him to hospital ourselves. We managed to get hold of a family member who lives in the city centre of Swansea, and they came to Pennard to assist with transferring my dad from the house to the car in order to take him to hospital. As you can appreciate, his heart attack was so big that if we hadn't of taken this action or, if none of us had a car, or didn't drive, then he could have died. We were so very lucky on this occasion and the service we received in hospital was second to none (Thank you!), but we don't want this to happen to any of our neighbours or families, or friends, just because of where they happen to live at a time where they are at their most vulnerable and in need of emergency/medical, specialist assistance. Please bring back an ambulance to this area, it would be an excellent use of resources.
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  • Stop our personal medical records being taken by NHS Digital
    Unless each of us opts out by 23 June 2021, our individual medical records from the time we were born or first registered with a GP practice, are to be extracted by NHS Digital (at the Government's behest) from 1 July 2021. This will include data about your symptoms, diagnoses and physical, and mental health - your private and confidential health data. These data will then be used for planning and possibly for research purposes and potentially sold for financial profit. This includes the summary of conversations you have had with your GP in the understanding that you were speaking in complete privacy. These data should be protected, not shared. I ask you to support the urgent cessation of this data extraction.
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  • Apronectomy on NHS
    My husband had a Gastric Bypass a few years ago ,but when he was due to have the excess skin removed after loosing weight he was unable to have it done on the NHS as Apronectomy is now classed as cosmetic & became a cut back. He has COPD that is made worse with carrying the weight of the excess skin , has painful neck & shoulders ,walks with a crutch because he feels he could fall , also gets leg ulcers & could get them under the skin , he has a heart problem ,we can't have intimacy in our marriage . Because he gets breathless ,we can't go on nice walks together . Which makes me sad when I see couples out walking , and I walk with a group instead or on my own. How can the Government say this operation to remove excess stomach skin is cosmetic ,when it's medical & important for the health & wellbeing of the person concerned.
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  • Start Covid public enquiry immediately
    Following the recent serious claims made by Dominic Cummings, it is essential to investigate what lessons can be learnt from the Government's handling during the pandemic. This should be via a fast-tracked public enquiry with evidence given under oath and the findings published before the next General Election.
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  • expand burvill surgery
    we need more clinician space
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  • Donate Indian-made COVID Vaccines for Use in India
    Indian health facilities are overwhelmed by COVID and their government is relying on a vaccination programme to get on top of the pandemic but their vaccination stocks are very low. The UK on the other hand has already vaccinated over 50% of its adult population, has plenty of vaccines and many more on order. It would be grossly unfair to the Indian people to insist on vaccines manufactured there being exported to the UK when their need is so much greater than ours.
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  • Free Parking for NHS Staff whilst on Duty
    Nurses are not well paid and if they end up a parking ticket which could cost around £60 easily which I think is criminal. With FREE Parking whilst on duty they would not face such steep parking Fines. Medical staff are giving us (the patients) a fantastic service which is not well rewarded but this concession of FREE paring whilst on Duty is a very small price to pay.
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  • More support and care for women's prolapses
    Women are suffering being left in pain and not being taken seriously with their prolapse problems. Things need a serious over haul and ladies with these conditions need to be taken seriously and given priority in women's health along with smear tests and mammograms. Regular checks and more support given. More awareness given postnatally of the many different types of prolapse, such as rectocele and cystocele and their names. Education could start at high school age for young adults about these issues early awareness is vital
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  • Restrict leaf blowers & pesticides to avert "insect armageddon"
    Leaf blowers are contributing to the "insect armageddon" which currently threatens all life on earth. They are fatal to insects and should not be used unless absolutely "indispensable", the German government recently told its citizens. In 2019 the German government announced a roughly €100m (£85m) action plan to protect insects, which also included shoring up environmental regulation and limiting the use of pesticides. The controversial weed killer glyphosate will be banned by 2023. Yet, here in the UK, both leaf blowers and pesticides are regularly used, privately and by councils, from schools to parks, gardens to streets, to keep green spaces 'tidy', even when everything in their path is scorched and obliterated. Small animals, insect species, plants, topsoil… nothing is left undestroyed. Noisy leaf blowers are heavily polluting and pose the“risk that [insects and] small animals are absorbed or blown and thereby damaged”, the German Ministry for the Environment has said. The move followed a report from a top UK ecologist which warned bugs are dying out 8 times faster than larger animals, with 40 per cent of the roughly one million known insect species facing extinction as a result. “If insect declines are not halted, terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems will collapse, with profound consequences for human wellbeing,” Professor Dave Goulson’s report for the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust concluded. “The main causes of decline include habitat loss and fragmentation, and the overuse of pesticides. Wild insects are routinely exposed to complex cocktails of toxins which can cause either death or disorientation and weakened immune and digestive systems.” Leaf blowers are another huge part of the problem. “Leaf blowers are not only deafeningly loud and pollute the air through their internal combustion engines, they also harm the soil biology seriously.” Despite scores of cities across the US having previously instituted restrictions or bans on leaf-blowers, here in the UK they remain an almost daily fact of life. The dangers posed by leaf blowers hint at a larger trend that is harming insect populations, according to Dr Edward Turner, a lecturer at the University of Cambridge’s zoology department and curator of insects at the university’s zoology museum. “I think that leaf blowers fall into the category of being ‘too tidy’ and this can be very bad for insects,” according to Dr Turner. “Generally, if we were to cut our road verges and open grass areas less frequently, let some weeds grow along our pavements, and leave leaves to decompose more, I think it would benefit insects a lot.“Really importantly ... We should limit our use of herbicides and insecticides to an absolute minimum, especially in our urban green spaces and gardens. Basically, I think we just need to be a little less tidy and a little more tolerant of ‘weeds’ and I think insects and therefore lots of other species would benefit.” A leaf blower’s engine is environmentally awful. Designed to be air-cooled, (their original design was for crop spraying) 100% of their exhaust emissions spew directly into the area around them. They are also gas guzzlers. One hour of leaf blowing puts as many pollutants in the atmosphere as a sedan driven sedately for about 180 kilometres. One cheap leaf blower’s pollution is greater than an average-size long-distance lorries. Yet they are the main method used to keep children’s playgrounds free of leaves… They excrete high frequency sound waves with decibel levels that far exceed acceptable limits. Hearing damage begins to occur when someone is around “extended exposure” to any sound of 85 decibels or higher. Just two hours of operating a leaf blower, which hits 90 decibels, can cause permanent damage and hearing loss. The greater the exposure, the deafer the person operating the leaf blower will become. Given the decibel damage, even if the leaf blower is being used at the house next door, you will be subject to some ear damage. Please help me to get both leaf blowers and pesticides restricted unless “indispensable”. We are at the point of collapse for many insect populations - most well-known is the rate at which bees are dying – and can’t afford to keep inadvertently destroying our green spaces in the name of maintenance. Insect collapse would mean human collapse. We are also deafening children and each other, while poisoning and polluting the natural spaces we most rely on for human health.
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