GP funding and cutting of services from April next year

General GP surgeries and People GP surgeries will face heavy budget cuts. People are generally unaware of the funding cuts which will result in surgeries which offer local services having their funding reduced. The consequence of this may mean many services moved to local hospitals, blood tests only available at local hospital, no compression bandages for ulceration, prostate tests, chest breathing and capacity, some gynacological problems, no doppler testing, or heart monitors, no 24 hr blood pressure monitors. These are only a few examples of what will happen with the expectation of over stretched hospitals unable to cope.

We need a national strategy to defend the poor, the sick and the frail who have no idea what is to happen to them from April 2016, Save our surgeries, It will affect your parents and grand parents, even if you are fortunate to enjoy good health, or it could be a child who has to be taken to hospital instead of your local Doctor.

I am ashamed of these changes and hope that you will realise the significance of the destruction by stealth this Government is causing our health services