My handsome son Zak died because the health authorities and other institutions that were supposed to be caring for him, failed him miserably. A coroner has deemed the following: Healthcare failings in obtaining information so that a patient reveives their medication. Failings to provide patient discharge information relating to diagnosis, prescription and care plan details. Concerns relating to a lack of clarity over the meaning of the word "urgent" when a patient referral is made to the access and assessment team. Concerns that current healthcare guidelines, (in relation to patients that may be disengaging or non concorordant) are lacking and need perfecting. Zak's death was regarded as a Serious Incident by the trust that failed him. Zak was seen by a GP whilst under a trusts care, (6 weeks before he took his own life).The GP had serious concerns that Zak was paranoid, lacking capacity and dehydrated. Nothing was done and incredibly no notes seem to be available, to show if anything was done or what they did to help and support Zak. A different GP saw Zak again 18 days before he passed away. The GP made an urgent psychiatric referral but they did not have a clue about Zak's current medication or treatment plan because they had NO NOTES from the previous care provider. They had a legal duty of care to get Zak help and treatment. As it currently stands health authorities and other institutions where care is provided can say they have not got a patients notes or they cannot find them. There is a massive loophole in the current law which allows this to happen. The institutions and health authorities are allowed to say and I quote: " The notes may have been done or they may not have been done", as an excuse for not providing a patients notes. How can this be either morally or ethically right in 2022 when notes have been computerised to try to stop this from happening. How can they be allowed to get away with saying: " We do not have the notes, we had no access to that computer system or we cannot find the notes or they may have been done or they may not have been done". Please please stop this from happening any more. God forbid it happens to your loved one. Jo Farmer

A family doctor, who knows your medical history, is vital to our health and well being and should be available for all of us. Our GP practices are under more pressure than ever before. There is a national shortage of GPs and central government is undermining and failing to support surgeries which are led by GP partners - instead they are encouraging the privatisation of GP surgeries leading to disastrous consequences for patient care. Companies such as Virgin, Boots and US company Operose are buying up GP practices when the GPs eventually give up due to underfunding. The private Companies may even get more funding than the GPs were given in some cases. Patients then find that they are unable to get appointments and the same level of care they received before. One practice in Kent, bought up in 2016, went from outstanding, when run by GPs, to inadequate in the 18 months after it was bought up by a private firm. Other GP surgeries have been highlighted on Panorama, showing how the private companies make more money by employing fewer GPs ( perhaps as little as 1 per practice) and making up the needs with less highly trained and much less well paid physician associates who need support, which they may or may not get, from a GP so they don't make mistakes with diagnosis or patient care. The government is encouraging a two tier system to develop. In the near future, if this trend is not reversed, only rich people with access to private health care will be able to get reliable health care when they need it. My own GPs have criticised the political decisions being made which are making it so difficult for the doctors - they say this started in the Thatcher years but every government since has contributed to the problem. One of them described it as "heartbreaking" because the poor will not be able to get adequate care and many may die unnecessarily. The service is at breaking point already. Almost all the appointments at my surgery are now telephone only and this can lead to mistakes being made. I would like to see these decisions reversed by the government and I call on the Health Secretary to take urgent action. It is completely inappropriate for private companies to be running GP surgeries for big profit while neglecting patient care. Central government should be adequately supporting GP led and run partnerships- they are the ones who know how to do the job properly and they are invested in the work. Big business just doesn't care. It's profits before people. If we all petition the Government on this issue, they have to take notice as privatisation of the NHS through the back door is an election loser. I want this to be debated in the House of Commons. This is a national issue which affects all of us.

This has always been an issue. Current rising costs in every other area of life leaves little or no room for personal health care costs. If you cannot afford to buy the more effective and secure incontinence wear available you will have to fall back on the NHS free product selection. Pads that require a net to hold them in place and which do not secure leak prevention, and cotton pull-ups, of which you get four, and that don't hold as much as the insecure pads. These pull up pants will leak without warning. Would you want to be thinking, all day every day, that you maybe about to soak leg wear/trousers and become the source of everyone's embarrassment. Its horrendous. You really don't want to be that person. However I am that person. I have soiled my bed so many times. I have been 'caught out' when a larger urinary discharge overflows from pad to clothes. Once you have 'wet' yourself it soon becomes obvious to all around you, the smell, the look, the wet foot prints that follow you to a safer dark corner. And, you still have to get home! There are far better products out there, but currently they have to be purchased. They are not cheap but, here's the rub, they are manufactured to work efficiently at retention and leak prevention, in other words THEY WORK. Help me, and every one like me, whether they be older or younger than 60, regain some dignity, reduce daily anxiety and improve immeasurably the quality and value of life.

Since the summer I have been making contact with my local GP to book an appointment to have my current coil (expiring in November) replaced. I was made aware by female family/friends that I should make contact with my GP as far in advance as possible as the waiting list for the coil is extremely long. After calling my GP in the summer I was told that I had made contact too early and I should call again one/two months in advance to book in. I followed these instructions and was eventually added to the coil waiting list in September. After chasing up my case in October and then again in early November I was informed by the administrator in charge of the 'Coil waiting list' on both occasions that she could still not offer me an appointment as there are still no slots available. I raised my concern about the fact my coil is now expiring in a matter of weeks and as a result I wouldn't be protected from getting pregnant unless my husband and I use condoms. The clinician advised that there is nothing she could do about getting me an appointment any earlier as the waiting list is very long and there are only two practitioners who take appointments for the coil. I asked if she could give me any sort of time frame as to how long I would have to continue with my expired coil and she couldn't give me an answer. In an attempt to be proactive, I made contact with my local Sexual Health Clinic to enquire if I could make an appointment with them to have my coil removed. They informed me that this is not a service they offer anymore and I needed to make an appointment with my GP. I have since researched the 'NHS coil waiting list' and found that it can be as long as 6 months to a year women have to wait to have their coil removed. More clinicians in GP practice need to become qualified to take appointments relating to the coil. The 'NHS coil waiting list' is an issue directly related to female empowerment. The current system within the NHS is completely ineffective and has personally left me feeling completely out of control of my own body. Choosing the correct method of contraception is an extremely important issue that every woman in the UK goes through at some point during their life. As a married woman in my late 20's, I am settled with a long term partner but not yet ready to start a family. The coil is the correct method of contraception for me at this stage of my life, however I am unable to access it. Furthermore I have a coil that will be expiring imminently and I am unable to book an appointment to have it removed in time, and there is absolutely no time scale that can be provided by my GP as to when I will get an appointment. Women in the UK should not have to wait for this ridiculous amount of time to gain access to contraception. Not only is the process of trying to get an appointment for the coil emotionally draining and exasperating, it is unbelievable that we are in 2022 and women in this country are left to feel completely out of control in matters to do with their own body.

This new hospital is urgently needed to bring our NHS facilities into the 21st century and to provide top quality care. In the meantime many people will continue to suffer and lives will continue to be unnecessarily lost. Staff morale is at an all time low because of this.

I was diagnosed with Bowel cancer aged 37 after being misdiagnosed with diverticulitis. Misdiagnosis is common in people under 50 because they are considered too young to have Bowel cancer and red flags are ignored. There is no age limit to Bowel cancer. There are approximately 42,886 cases of Bowel Cancer each year. Bowel Cancer has a 54% survival rate, if caught early enough. There is no action you can take to prevent bowel cancer, it is considered “The smoking old man’s meat eating cancer” which is simply not the case for everybody. My doctors have not been able to identify a single reason why I have this cancer and I don’t fit the bill at all. It is possible it has been present for years even though I am “too young” to have it. My blood loss and pain was thought to be a gynaecological issue and I was diagnosed with a Anaemia. Even a perforated bowel didn’t seem to ring alarm bells. Cancer was not a consideration. We now know I was losing blood via stools, without realising and a tumour had perforated my bowel, eventually causing excruciating pain. Screening could have detected this and I may not have had to have part of my colon removed in emergency surgery and have to live with a stoma. I want it made possible to stop this cancer in its tracks before it gets to my stage or further for anybody else. After all, if Bowel cancer develops it can also spread to lymph nodes then onto other organs which can be even more devastating. Let’s try to prevent more Bowel cancer related deaths in the future by screening adults aged over 30 annually and allowing anyone over 18 to opt in as well. Feel free to follow my journey on Instagram @paloma_the_stoma22

Many people on low incomes will lose their lives through hypothermia, as they will not be able to afford heating. Many more older people will just try and wrap up warm instead of putting the heating on because they can't afford the gas, or electric. Many disabled people on low incomes will have to choose between heating or food. This is corporate murder. The outcome of this is a massive rise in the death rate this winter. I myself am looking at a winter of severe pain with little to no heating each day. My mother is likely to just not turn the heating on and wrap up as warm as possible as she is of the wartime generation. I fear that she will not survive the next winter. Many of her generation, and their children on low incomes (state pensions) will likely do the same as they will not be able to afford heating this winter. Please do not start up a similar petition as it will weaken this petition. Instead share this one so as many people can sign it, and it gets brought before the house of commons.

Covid is still here it hasn't gone away, we need to protect The disabled,vunerable, elderly and keep them safe. The government has the right to change the law back to make face masks mandatory again in Hospitals and Doctors Surgery’s, so they are safe and secure places to go when we need treatment. Please sign my petition.

People do not seem to be aware until they know of someone that has it, and has a reaction whilst they are present. With 1 in 20 people suffering from some degree of gluten intolerance. Firstly, the persons can become very sick from being glutened, sometimes for weeks. As the immune system attacks itself, other elements can become involved and worsen things. This can include Osteoporosis or Bowel cancer. Recently, a lady was in the hospital, possibly too ill to respond to the food choices that the nurses had made for her. They gave her Weetabix for her breakfast and a few days later sadly she died.

During the pandemic, and over the last 75 years, our NHS and its dedicated workers have provided us with the critical health care we need in our daily lives. But right now, the NHS is struggling and could reach breaking point unless we act. According to 38 Degrees research: • 45% of us in The Cotswolds have said that we or a family member had experienced difficulty booking an appointment with a local GP in the last year. • 11% of us in The Cotswolds are reporting bad or very bad health, up from 4% in 2011 • Nationally the number of people reporting bad or very bad health in Great Britain has DOUBLED since the 2011 census - from 6% to 12% • Up to 2 million people are effectively on an NHS “shadow waiting list”, waiting to be referred for primary care treatment The Government has failed to fix this problem in their backlog plan, and we need that to change. Steve Barclay, as Secretary of State for Health, is responsible for fixing the backlog in England. There's still no meaningful plan to address access to primary care, despite how important this is to the public. We are demanding that Steve Barclay urgently publish and deliver a REAL, properly resourced plan to tackle the backlog in primary care. Until then, we'll all still be waiting. Source: Large-sample research and MRP analysis on the NHS backlog conducted by Survation on behalf of 38 Degrees. Fieldwork was conducted between 8th and 21st of June 2022. Population sampled: 10,079 residents 18+ living in Great Britain.

During the pandemic, and over the last 75 years, our NHS and its dedicated workers have provided us with the critical health care we need in our daily lives. But right now, the NHS is struggling and could reach breaking point unless we act. According to 38 Degrees research: • 47% of us in West Worcestershire have said that we or a family member had experienced difficulty booking an appointment with a local GP in the last year. • 11% of us in West Worcestershire are reporting bad or very bad health, up from 5% in 2011 • Nationally the number of people reporting bad or very bad health in Great Britain has DOUBLED since the 2011 census - from 6% to 12% • Up to 2 million people are effectively on an NHS “shadow waiting list”, waiting to be referred for primary care treatment The Government has failed to fix this problem in their backlog plan, and we need that to change. Steve Barclay, as Secretary of State for Health, is responsible for fixing the backlog in England. There's still no meaningful plan to address access to primary care, despite how important this is to the public. We are demanding that Steve Barclay urgently publish and deliver a REAL, properly resourced plan to tackle the backlog in primary care. Until then, we'll all still be waiting. Source: Large-sample research and MRP analysis on the NHS backlog conducted by Survation on behalf of 38 Degrees. Fieldwork was conducted between 8th and 21st of June 2022. Population sampled: 10,079 residents 18+ living in Great Britain.

During the pandemic, and over the last 75 years, our NHS and its dedicated workers have provided us with the critical health care we need in our daily lives. But right now, the NHS is struggling and could reach breaking point unless we act. According to 38 Degrees research: • 54% of us in Wigan have said that we or a family member had experienced difficulty booking an appointment with a local GP in the last year. • 14% of us in Wigan are reporting bad or very bad health, up from 7% in 2011 • Nationally the number of people reporting bad or very bad health in Great Britain has DOUBLED since the 2011 census - from 6% to 12% • Up to 2 million people are effectively on an NHS “shadow waiting list”, waiting to be referred for primary care treatment The Government has failed to fix this problem in their backlog plan, and we need that to change. Steve Barclay, as Secretary of State for Health, is responsible for fixing the backlog in England. There's still no meaningful plan to address access to primary care, despite how important this is to the public. We are demanding that Steve Barclay urgently publish and deliver a REAL, properly resourced plan to tackle the backlog in primary care. Until then, we'll all still be waiting. Source: Large-sample research and MRP analysis on the NHS backlog conducted by Survation on behalf of 38 Degrees. Fieldwork was conducted between 8th and 21st of June 2022. Population sampled: 10,079 residents 18+ living in Great Britain.