http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/tags/government/ Wed, 18 May 2011 14:28:04 -0700 Wed, 18 May 2011 14:28:04 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/ http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5049/buddyicons/26096388@N00.jpg?1293408861#26096388@N00 http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/tags/government/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734466353/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peteriches/">pete riches</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734466353/" title="P5177423"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5266/5734466353_4154a51d89_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="P5177423" /></a></p> <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> Wed, 18 May 2011 14:28:04 -0700 2011-05-17T17:56:15-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (pete riches) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5734466353 P5177423 <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> pete riches london demo rally crowd protest demonstration nhs posters gathering government banners doctors healthcare rtw nurses cuts protesters demonstrators placards surgeons 17may uch midwives richmondhouse unison ukpolitics may17 universitycollegehospital gowerstreet healthservice consultants frankdobson privatisation tradeunions departmentofhealth nationalhealthservice medicalstudents condems jobcuts privatehealthcare andrewlansley righttoworkcampaign marchtosavethenhs killlansley’sbill healthsocialcarebill http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734419391/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peteriches/">pete riches</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734419391/" title="P5177447"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2363/5734419391_d83627be02_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="P5177447" /></a></p> <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> Wed, 18 May 2011 14:10:05 -0700 2011-05-18T22:10:05-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (pete riches) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5734419391 P5177447 <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> pete riches london demo rally crowd protest demonstration nhs posters gathering government banners doctors healthcare rtw nurses cuts protesters demonstrators placards surgeons 17may uch midwives richmondhouse unison ukpolitics may17 universitycollegehospital gowerstreet healthservice consultants frankdobson privatisation tradeunions departmentofhealth nationalhealthservice medicalstudents condems jobcuts privatehealthcare andrewlansley righttoworkcampaign marchtosavethenhs killlansley’sbill healthsocialcarebill http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5735027810/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peteriches/">pete riches</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5735027810/" title="P5177385"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2372/5735027810_d56f81507c_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="P5177385" /></a></p> <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> Wed, 18 May 2011 14:32:57 -0700 2011-05-18T22:32:57-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (pete riches) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5735027810 P5177385 <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> pete riches london demo rally crowd protest demonstration nhs posters gathering government banners doctors healthcare rtw nurses cuts protesters demonstrators placards surgeons 17may uch midwives richmondhouse unison ukpolitics may17 universitycollegehospital gowerstreet healthservice consultants frankdobson privatisation tradeunions departmentofhealth nationalhealthservice medicalstudents condems jobcuts privatehealthcare andrewlansley righttoworkcampaign marchtosavethenhs killlansley’sbill healthsocialcarebill http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5735025140/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peteriches/">pete riches</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5735025140/" title="P5177392"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3301/5735025140_4389e291f7_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="P5177392" /></a></p> <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> Wed, 18 May 2011 14:31:59 -0700 2011-05-18T22:31:59-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (pete riches) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5735025140 P5177392 <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> pete riches london demo rally crowd protest demonstration nhs posters gathering government banners doctors healthcare rtw nurses cuts protesters demonstrators placards surgeons 17may uch midwives richmondhouse unison ukpolitics may17 universitycollegehospital gowerstreet healthservice consultants frankdobson privatisation tradeunions departmentofhealth nationalhealthservice medicalstudents condems jobcuts privatehealthcare andrewlansley righttoworkcampaign marchtosavethenhs killlansley’sbill healthsocialcarebill http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5735023542/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peteriches/">pete riches</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5735023542/" title="P5177399"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2015/5735023542_07e24fedd3_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="P5177399" /></a></p> <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> Wed, 18 May 2011 14:31:20 -0700 2011-05-17T17:46:47-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (pete riches) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5735023542 P5177399 <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> pete riches london demo rally crowd protest demonstration nhs posters gathering government banners doctors healthcare rtw nurses cuts protesters demonstrators placards surgeons 17may uch midwives richmondhouse unison ukpolitics may17 universitycollegehospital gowerstreet healthservice consultants frankdobson privatisation tradeunions departmentofhealth nationalhealthservice medicalstudents condems jobcuts privatehealthcare andrewlansley righttoworkcampaign marchtosavethenhs killlansley’sbill healthsocialcarebill http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734996936/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peteriches/">pete riches</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734996936/" title="P5177434"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2165/5734996936_c20b0829fb_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="P5177434" /></a></p> <p>Andrew Lansley, NHS, banners, Crowd, cuts, demo, demonstration, demonstrators, gathering, Health &amp; Social Care Bill, health service, job cuts, national health service, placards, posters, private healthcare, privatisation, protest, Protesters, rally, UCH, Demonstration, Health Care, nurses, doctors, consultants, midwives, surgeons, unison, trade unions, frank dobson, RtW, right to work campaign<br /> <br /> condems, coalition, government,</p> Wed, 18 May 2011 14:21:08 -0700 2011-05-18T22:21:08-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (pete riches) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5734996936 P5177434 <p>Andrew Lansley, NHS, banners, Crowd, cuts, demo, demonstration, demonstrators, gathering, Health &amp; Social Care Bill, health service, job cuts, national health service, placards, posters, private healthcare, privatisation, protest, Protesters, rally, UCH, Demonstration, Health Care, nurses, doctors, consultants, midwives, surgeons, unison, trade unions, frank dobson, RtW, right to work campaign<br /> <br /> condems, coalition, government,</p> pete riches london demo rally crowd protest demonstration nhs posters gathering government banners doctors healthcare rtw nurses cuts protesters demonstrators placards surgeons 17may uch midwives richmondhouse unison ukpolitics may17 universitycollegehospital gowerstreet healthservice consultants frankdobson privatisation tradeunions departmentofhealth nationalhealthservice medicalstudents condems jobcuts privatehealthcare andrewlansley righttoworkcampaign marchtosavethenhs killlansley’sbill healthsocialcarebill http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5735000832/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peteriches/">pete riches</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5735000832/" title="P5177442"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5065/5735000832_13240c7fe3_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="P5177442" /></a></p> <p>Andrew Lansley, NHS, banners, Crowd, cuts, demo, demonstration, demonstrators, gathering, Health &amp; Social Care Bill, health service, job cuts, national health service, placards, posters, private healthcare, privatisation, protest, Protesters, rally, UCH, Demonstration, Health Care, nurses, doctors, consultants, midwives, surgeons, unison, trade unions, frank dobson, RtW, right to work campaign<br /> <br /> condems, coalition, government,</p> Wed, 18 May 2011 14:22:37 -0700 2011-05-18T22:22:37-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (pete riches) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5735000832 P5177442 <p>Andrew Lansley, NHS, banners, Crowd, cuts, demo, demonstration, demonstrators, gathering, Health &amp; Social Care Bill, health service, job cuts, national health service, placards, posters, private healthcare, privatisation, protest, Protesters, rally, UCH, Demonstration, Health Care, nurses, doctors, consultants, midwives, surgeons, unison, trade unions, frank dobson, RtW, right to work campaign<br /> <br /> condems, coalition, government,</p> pete riches london demo rally crowd protest demonstration nhs posters gathering government banners doctors healthcare rtw nurses cuts protesters demonstrators placards surgeons 17may uch midwives richmondhouse unison ukpolitics may17 universitycollegehospital gowerstreet healthservice consultants frankdobson privatisation tradeunions departmentofhealth nationalhealthservice medicalstudents condems jobcuts privatehealthcare andrewlansley righttoworkcampaign marchtosavethenhs killlansley’sbill healthsocialcarebill http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734449969/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peteriches/">pete riches</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734449969/" title="P5177436"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3052/5734449969_1987a1457d_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="P5177436" /></a></p> <p>Andrew Lansley, NHS, banners, Crowd, cuts, demo, demonstration, demonstrators, gathering, Health &amp; Social Care Bill, health service, job cuts, national health service, placards, posters, private healthcare, privatisation, protest, Protesters, rally, UCH, Demonstration, Health Care, nurses, doctors, consultants, midwives, surgeons, unison, trade unions, frank dobson, RtW, right to work campaign<br /> <br /> condems, coalition, government,</p> Wed, 18 May 2011 14:21:51 -0700 2011-05-18T22:21:51-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (pete riches) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5734449969 P5177436 <p>Andrew Lansley, NHS, banners, Crowd, cuts, demo, demonstration, demonstrators, gathering, Health &amp; Social Care Bill, health service, job cuts, national health service, placards, posters, private healthcare, privatisation, protest, Protesters, rally, UCH, Demonstration, Health Care, nurses, doctors, consultants, midwives, surgeons, unison, trade unions, frank dobson, RtW, right to work campaign<br /> <br /> condems, coalition, government,</p> pete riches london demo rally crowd protest demonstration nhs posters gathering government banners doctors healthcare rtw nurses cuts protesters demonstrators placards surgeons 17may uch midwives richmondhouse unison ukpolitics may17 universitycollegehospital gowerstreet healthservice consultants frankdobson privatisation tradeunions departmentofhealth nationalhealthservice medicalstudents condems jobcuts privatehealthcare andrewlansley righttoworkcampaign marchtosavethenhs killlansley’sbill healthsocialcarebill http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734464205/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peteriches/">pete riches</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734464205/" title="P5177402"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5225/5734464205_8453401ed8_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="P5177402" /></a></p> <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> Wed, 18 May 2011 14:27:11 -0700 2011-05-17T17:48:38-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (pete riches) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5734464205 P5177402 <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> pete riches london demo rally crowd protest demonstration nhs posters gathering government banners doctors healthcare rtw nurses cuts protesters demonstrators placards surgeons 17may uch midwives richmondhouse unison ukpolitics may17 universitycollegehospital gowerstreet healthservice consultants frankdobson privatisation tradeunions departmentofhealth nationalhealthservice medicalstudents condems jobcuts privatehealthcare andrewlansley righttoworkcampaign marchtosavethenhs killlansley’sbill healthsocialcarebill http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734461725/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peteriches/">pete riches</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734461725/" title="P5177424"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2218/5734461725_d533b19194_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="P5177424" /></a></p> <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> Wed, 18 May 2011 14:26:13 -0700 2011-05-18T22:26:13-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (pete riches) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5734461725 P5177424 <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> pete riches london demo rally crowd protest demonstration nhs posters gathering government banners doctors healthcare rtw nurses cuts protesters demonstrators placards surgeons 17may uch midwives richmondhouse unison ukpolitics may17 universitycollegehospital gowerstreet healthservice consultants frankdobson privatisation tradeunions departmentofhealth nationalhealthservice medicalstudents condems jobcuts privatehealthcare andrewlansley righttoworkcampaign marchtosavethenhs killlansley’sbill healthsocialcarebill http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734468463/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peteriches/">pete riches</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734468463/" title="P5177408"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5265/5734468463_25daf2f54e_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="P5177408" /></a></p> <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> Wed, 18 May 2011 14:28:57 -0700 2011-05-17T17:51:24-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (pete riches) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5734468463 P5177408 <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> pete riches london demo rally crowd protest demonstration nhs posters gathering government banners doctors healthcare rtw nurses cuts protesters demonstrators placards surgeons 17may uch midwives richmondhouse unison ukpolitics may17 universitycollegehospital gowerstreet healthservice consultants frankdobson privatisation tradeunions departmentofhealth nationalhealthservice medicalstudents condems jobcuts privatehealthcare andrewlansley righttoworkcampaign marchtosavethenhs killlansley’sbill healthsocialcarebill http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734470771/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peteriches/">pete riches</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734470771/" title="P5177417"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5222/5734470771_8109dd5e86_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="P5177417" /></a></p> <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> Wed, 18 May 2011 14:29:52 -0700 2011-05-17T17:54:40-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (pete riches) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5734470771 P5177417 <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> pete riches london demo rally crowd protest demonstration nhs posters gathering government banners doctors healthcare rtw nurses cuts protesters demonstrators placards surgeons 17may uch midwives richmondhouse unison ukpolitics may17 universitycollegehospital gowerstreet healthservice consultants frankdobson privatisation tradeunions departmentofhealth nationalhealthservice medicalstudents condems jobcuts privatehealthcare andrewlansley righttoworkcampaign marchtosavethenhs killlansley’sbill healthsocialcarebill http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734445569/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peteriches/">pete riches</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734445569/" title="P5177433"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2033/5734445569_69c51622b4_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="P5177433" /></a></p> <p>Andrew Lansley, NHS, banners, Crowd, cuts, demo, demonstration, demonstrators, gathering, Health &amp; Social Care Bill, health service, job cuts, national health service, placards, posters, private healthcare, privatisation, protest, Protesters, rally, UCH, Demonstration, Health Care, nurses, doctors, consultants, midwives, surgeons, unison, trade unions, frank dobson, RtW, right to work campaign<br /> <br /> condems, coalition, government,</p> Wed, 18 May 2011 14:20:15 -0700 2011-05-18T22:20:15-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (pete riches) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5734445569 P5177433 <p>Andrew Lansley, NHS, banners, Crowd, cuts, demo, demonstration, demonstrators, gathering, Health &amp; Social Care Bill, health service, job cuts, national health service, placards, posters, private healthcare, privatisation, protest, Protesters, rally, UCH, Demonstration, Health Care, nurses, doctors, consultants, midwives, surgeons, unison, trade unions, frank dobson, RtW, right to work campaign<br /> <br /> condems, coalition, government,</p> pete riches london demo rally crowd protest demonstration nhs posters gathering government banners doctors healthcare rtw nurses cuts protesters demonstrators placards surgeons 17may uch midwives richmondhouse unison ukpolitics may17 universitycollegehospital gowerstreet healthservice consultants frankdobson privatisation tradeunions departmentofhealth nationalhealthservice medicalstudents condems jobcuts privatehealthcare andrewlansley righttoworkcampaign marchtosavethenhs killlansley’sbill healthsocialcarebill http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734412923/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peteriches/">pete riches</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734412923/" title="P5177456"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3219/5734412923_e1d0a09452_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="P5177456" /></a></p> <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> Wed, 18 May 2011 14:07:24 -0700 2011-05-18T22:07:24-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (pete riches) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5734412923 P5177456 <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> pete riches london demo rally crowd protest demonstration nhs posters gathering government banners doctors healthcare rtw nurses cuts protesters demonstrators placards surgeons 17may uch midwives richmondhouse unison ukpolitics may17 universitycollegehospital gowerstreet healthservice consultants frankdobson privatisation tradeunions departmentofhealth nationalhealthservice medicalstudents condems jobcuts privatehealthcare andrewlansley righttoworkcampaign marchtosavethenhs killlansley’sbill healthsocialcarebill http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734411303/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peteriches/">pete riches</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734411303/" title="P5177472"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2693/5734411303_a0a593120a_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="P5177472" /></a></p> <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> Wed, 18 May 2011 14:06:45 -0700 2011-05-18T22:06:45-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (pete riches) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5734411303 P5177472 <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> pete riches london demo rally crowd protest demonstration nhs posters gathering government banners doctors healthcare rtw nurses cuts protesters demonstrators placards surgeons 17may uch midwives richmondhouse unison ukpolitics may17 universitycollegehospital gowerstreet healthservice consultants frankdobson privatisation tradeunions departmentofhealth nationalhealthservice medicalstudents condems jobcuts privatehealthcare andrewlansley righttoworkcampaign marchtosavethenhs killlansley’sbill healthsocialcarebill http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734944688/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peteriches/">pete riches</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734944688/" title="P5177492"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3136/5734944688_ebef5b5faa_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="P5177492" /></a></p> <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> Wed, 18 May 2011 14:00:45 -0700 2011-05-18T22:00:45-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (pete riches) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5734944688 P5177492 <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> pete riches london demo rally crowd protest demonstration nhs posters gathering government banners doctors healthcare rtw nurses cuts protesters demonstrators placards surgeons 17may uch midwives richmondhouse unison ukpolitics may17 universitycollegehospital gowerstreet healthservice consultants frankdobson privatisation tradeunions departmentofhealth nationalhealthservice medicalstudents condems jobcuts privatehealthcare andrewlansley righttoworkcampaign marchtosavethenhs killlansley’sbill healthsocialcarebill http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734415075/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peteriches/">pete riches</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734415075/" title="P5177455"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5184/5734415075_fa46b62f4a_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="P5177455" /></a></p> <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> Wed, 18 May 2011 14:08:17 -0700 2011-05-18T22:08:17-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (pete riches) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5734415075 P5177455 <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> pete riches london demo rally crowd protest demonstration nhs posters gathering government banners doctors healthcare rtw nurses cuts protesters demonstrators placards surgeons 17may uch midwives richmondhouse unison ukpolitics may17 universitycollegehospital gowerstreet healthservice consultants frankdobson privatisation tradeunions departmentofhealth nationalhealthservice medicalstudents condems jobcuts privatehealthcare andrewlansley righttoworkcampaign marchtosavethenhs killlansley’sbill healthsocialcarebill http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734947024/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peteriches/">pete riches</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734947024/" title="P5177485"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5065/5734947024_043908eeb2_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="P5177485" /></a></p> <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> Wed, 18 May 2011 14:01:39 -0700 2011-05-18T22:01:39-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (pete riches) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5734947024 P5177485 <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> pete riches london demo rally crowd protest demonstration nhs posters gathering government banners doctors healthcare rtw nurses cuts protesters demonstrators placards surgeons 17may uch midwives richmondhouse unison ukpolitics may17 universitycollegehospital gowerstreet healthservice consultants frankdobson privatisation tradeunions departmentofhealth nationalhealthservice medicalstudents condems jobcuts privatehealthcare andrewlansley righttoworkcampaign marchtosavethenhs killlansley’sbill healthsocialcarebill http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734966346/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peteriches/">pete riches</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734966346/" title="P5177453"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5023/5734966346_a843f6c716_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="P5177453" /></a></p> <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> Wed, 18 May 2011 14:09:15 -0700 2011-05-18T22:09:15-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (pete riches) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5734966346 P5177453 <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> pete riches london demo rally crowd protest demonstration nhs posters gathering government banners doctors healthcare rtw nurses cuts protesters demonstrators placards surgeons 17may uch midwives richmondhouse unison ukpolitics may17 universitycollegehospital gowerstreet healthservice consultants frankdobson privatisation tradeunions departmentofhealth nationalhealthservice medicalstudents condems jobcuts privatehealthcare andrewlansley righttoworkcampaign marchtosavethenhs killlansley’sbill healthsocialcarebill http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734375991/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/peteriches/">pete riches</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteriches/5734375991/" title="P5177562"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2794/5734375991_fd2abd192d_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="P5177562" /></a></p> <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> Wed, 18 May 2011 13:53:30 -0700 2011-05-18T21:53:30-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (pete riches) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/5734375991 P5177562 <p><b>&quot;March to save the NHS: Kill Lansley’s Bill – Our health service not for sale&quot; : London 17.05.2011</b><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Over a thousand National Health Service professionals and medical students marched today from University College Hospital in Gower Street to rally outside the Department of Health in Whitehall under the event title &quot;March to Save the NHS: Kill Lansley's Bill - Our Health Service Not For Sale&quot;, referring to Health Minister Andrew Lansley's 'Health and Social Care Bill', which many within the NHS claim will all but dismantle the NHS, favouring the farming out of many core services to private companies, despite the dreadful track-record of such companies already cherry-picking services such as hip-replacements and many other simple day-surgery proceedures which often go wrong and have to be rectified by NHS hospitals.<br /> <br /> Based on the American health-care model, Lansley's reforms would fragment the NHS fatally, setting up hospitals the length and breadth of the country to fail, ushering in privatised health care companies to take over the hospitals, where profit for the shareholders, not quality of care, would be the sole driving force as it is in the USA where there are over fifty million people who cannot afford personal health insurance, reducing our amazing health service to something more befitting a third world country.<br /> <br /> There is some hope though, inasmuch as this coalition government has already had to back down several times after their much-vaunted spending cuts reforms have proved to be ill-conceived, often illegal and completely unworkable, and Lansley's bill has already stalled due to public outcry to go through further consultation - though many suspect this is little more than a trojan horse tactic by Cameron's Conservatives to give the <i>impression </i>they're listening to the public mood when actually they have not the slightest intention of turning back from their dogma-driven policies designed to make the rich richer whilst denying basic services to the most disadvantaged sectors of society.<br /> <br /> <b>All Photos © 2011 Pete Riches<br /> Do not copy, reproduce or alter any images without my permission</b></p> pete riches london demo rally crowd protest demonstration nhs posters gathering government banners doctors healthcare rtw nurses cuts protesters demonstrators placards surgeons 17may uch midwives richmondhouse unison ukpolitics may17 universitycollegehospital gowerstreet healthservice consultants frankdobson privatisation tradeunions departmentofhealth nationalhealthservice medicalstudents condems jobcuts privatehealthcare andrewlansley righttoworkcampaign marchtosavethenhs killlansley’sbill healthsocialcarebill