#Help! We really need you to help us slow down the Tory Destruction of our NHS

Next week will see the NHS face one of its biggest challenges since its creation. 

 In order to get the NHS Bill through parliament last March, the Tories had to promise that they would not race ahead with privatisation. The clause in the Tory NHS bill that allowed for 49% of the NHS to be privatised, we were told, was never likely to become reality and simply academic.

Assurances were given that Free-Market Competition would not be forced upon GPs when they were making commissioning decisions.

It will not come as a surprise to you to learn that the Tories lied. They have in the last few weeks introduced Regulations (S.I., 2013, No. 500) that forces doctors to commission NHS services to private profiteers under AQP (any qualified provider). 

This AQP status is open to virtually any health hustler eager to profit from your ill health.

Their desire to create a profit margin from your ill-health is something I object to in principle, I'll be honest.

Crucially, however, it is also something for which there is no place for in practice.

The NHS is strapped for cash, as the Tories have failed to increase year on year spending as they promised. The NHS is already facing the greatest health pressures of its age. As a result there is simply no room for taxpayers to gift private health firms a profit margin. 

More than ever before, our patients require a cost value and high quality health service. Forcing privatisation and profit into this equation means either cost value or patient safety must suffer. I don't want either to suffer, and I suspect you might agree.

I have created a gadget above (click the link at the top of this post to access the gadget and the rest of this article) that you can use to email your MP.

Please ask them to consider signing Ed Miliband's Early Day Motion (1188) that calls on the Regulations to be annulled. 

You can check if your MP has already signed the EDM by reading the list of MPs who have signed at this link (click here).

The "regs" will be debated in the House of Lords next week. I'll create a gadget in the next day or two that allows you to lobby peers to halt these dastardly clauses that force our Doctors to carve up our health service.