March

[Lily-]

Did everyone manage to hear about or see pictures of the thousands of peaceful marchers for the NHS, that remarkably, the BBC & other news channels failed to report? It took place in London yesterday. Marchers were not just Labour supporters as has been suggested, but across the political spectrum. They are people who believe in the ethical & moral indiscriminate values that understand the need to keep our NHS working properly & the workers to be given due respect & pay in line with their value.

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Bad times we are living in for civil rights & free press.

Well unless your MP but at least we have diseases and we know they don’t discriminate

[Annie31 in reply to Hidden]

Yes scary!!

[hypercat54]

I did hear about it but only very briefly as it certainly wasn't headline news or anything. I guess that's better than the usual response that there was trouble because it was mainly left wing activists!

I did hear that junior doctors were marching too. x

[O2Trees]

Couldn't have said it better Lily. I would have loved to be there. There is a small write-up on P.6 of the Observer, but irritating - thousands marching "in protest at what they say is the crisis facing the NHS". What they say? WOT?? Everyone knows the NHS is in crisis whatever their political interpretation of that. So frustrating.

[stone-UK]

Hi

BBC news channel reported the march.

Rally in London calls for action on NHS 'crisis'

And Sky news

Thousands march to Downing Street over NHS 'crisis'

[knitter]

There was an item earlier on the BBC News website ' Rally in London calls for action for NHS ' crisis' '

I found it again by typing into their search box. There is a short video of the rally and an interview.

[Lily-]

Thank you for the replies

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iy trended on twitter ,

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The ST has a tiny, tiny piece. As a prolific user of NHS services, I’m petrified about the coming ACOs, mentioned in knitter ’s post yesterday. A US-style health insurance system would be unaffordable for we chronically sick, & we’ve all seen what a disaster privatisation has been, introducing layer upon layer of costly bureaucracy at the expense of patient services.

The vast majority of healthy people have never even heard of ACOs! They’re too worried about jobs & housing anyway. I’ve mentioned ACOs to several well-informed friends, who just looked blank.

Makes me weep.

[knitter in reply to Hidden]

Hi Hanne, I only found out about ACOs by accident , and the fact that my l local hospital trust was included.

I too am petrified about the outcome, especially after the failure of the two recent private, for profit institutions that the government has been outsourcing . My late mother and grandmother used to speak of the fear they felt of falling ill before the NHS was introduced.....perhaps those in charge of redistributing our taxes don't have such memories.

[Hidden in reply to knitter]

What some people forget is, the NHS isn't free, we've ALREADY PAID for our health care through a working lifetime of national insurance contributions. I'm pinning my hopes on the legal action.

[BSA-3 in reply to Hidden]

Hi Hanne62. Re. N.I. Contributions, after a long time feeling guilty I realised that as well as those, I had also paid literally thousands in tax on alcohol and tobacco. This never gets mentioned . Please don't mis-read me, I have absolutely no "sense of entitlement" and I would have been dead several times but for the N.H.S., for which I'm eternally grateful, but where DOES our money go ???

[cofdrop-UK in reply to knitter]

My sister still have a medical bill knitter prior to the NHS. It was a doctor’s bill for 3/6 and it took my mum 18 months to pay it off and it had missings. Goodness knows what I would have cost. Actually I, along with many others with bronch at such a young age wouldn’t have survived.

Cx

[Annie31]

Should have been headline news on BBC News on TV. We pay a license fee every year for this censorship! This is getting to be a regular thing with BBC, anything that criticises the government is being omitted whenever they think they can get away with it. Thank God for social media in some respects, otherwise we would be oblivious to half that goes on now!

[Inamoment]

Why are you having go at the BBC? They and the guardian at least mentioned, albeit a long way down. I don't think the mail or express mentioned it at all

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I'm not surprised. It doesn't suit the political agenda of the Mail or Express, does it? The BBC is publicly funded & supposed to report the news impartially.

[Lily- in reply to Inamoment]

It should have been front page n was. & Major item on Bbc

[Lily- in reply to Lily-]

& we mustn't forget, not everyone is online or computer literate

[knitter]

The Daily Mirror on line has coverage of the rally

[Inamoment in reply to knitter]

Really? I can't see it

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mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/n...

[Inamoment in reply to Hidden]

It isn't on the front page

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I saw a lot of pictures on twitter. Good luck to them 😊