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To: Jeremy Hunt MP, Secretary of State for Health
No confidence in Jeremy Hunt
NHS staff, their families and friends have NO confidence in Jeremy Hunt or the Conservative Government to act in the best interest of the National Health Service, its staff or patients.
Why is this important?
I have worked in the NHS for over twelve years. In the last parliament I and many other NHS staff went on strike for the first time in many years. This was a step many staff never thought we would have to take.
The 1% was the trigger but the protest was about so much more.
Nurses and other staff who work within our National Health Service do an exceptionally difficult job. They care for us and our families but who cares for them? David Cameron tells us that his government is on the side of hard working families and yet Nurses and other NHS staff have seen their pay fall in real terms. Jeremy Hunt as Health Minister, who co-authored a book calling for the NHS to be dismantled and has been investigated in relation to his parliamentary expenses, actively stopped NHS staff from receiving a 1% pay increase, below the rate of inflation. There is a push to remove leads and allowances staff get for working unsocial hours, paid to them for caring for our families at the expense of their own. He has overseen a top down re organisation which has wasted billions of pounds and caused massive disruption to services.
The conservative government has said that it values the NHS and its staff whilst seeking to undermine them wherever possible by allowing more and more profit hungry organisations to cherry pick the areas that will make them the most money, often at the expense of NHS services themselves.
Morale is at an all time low right across services. Caring, compassionate, experienced staff are leaving in their hundreds because they can no longer face what is being done to the services they value by an ideology driven Health Secretary so far removed from the pain inflicted on front-line services.
Can we expect such dedicated and caring staff to be totally focused on what really matters, the patients, when they are worrying about providing for their own families?
So what does Mr Hunt offer to improve morale and support staff in delivering the care they want to provide?
An unfunded commitment to £8 billion and additional commitments to find further £20 billion in savings from services already cut to the bone.
Lets send him a message, lets tell him that we do not trust him with OUR NHS
#nofaithinhunt
