Happy Birthday NHS July 5th 2011

Happy 63rd Birthday to the National Health Service!


Stoke Mandeville; National Spinal Injuries Centre

Local residents, service providers, service users and Labour Party activists were joined by Cllr Michael Beall and Cllr Robin Stuchbury at the main entrance of Stoke Mandeville Hospital on today, Monday 4th July 2011 at to celebrate the establishment of the National Health Service 63 years ago under a reforming Labour Government in 1948. The impetus was the widespread National feeling that having made such sacrifices in wartime together the country owed its citizens the respect of providing healthcare free at point of delivery based on need, not what people can afford to pay.



The event involved the cutting of a cake adorned with 63 candles and the singing of Happy Birthday to the NHS.

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The following local residents have expressed their sentiment about Stoke Mandeville Hospital and its services:


Zard Ali Khan with his grandchildren

Mr. Zard Khan: "I worked at Stoke Mandeville Hospital for 6 years and loved every minute of it. Now as a patient with mobility issues, I am more than ever in need of high quality local services."



Cllr Michael Beall

Cllr Michael Beall: “The NHS is a fantastic institution and the coalition government are tearing the heart and soul out of it. I am very worried that the health concerns of my electorate will not be met under the proposed budget constraints and will do all that I can to ensure their voices are heard."

Shirley Raw: "I've been to Stoke Mandeville Hospital recently and I have nothing but praise for the speed and courtesy with which I was seen. I really worry about the ability of staff to keep this standard up if their numbers diminish and their workloads go up.”

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Stoke Mandeville; Home of the Paralympics

To the residents of Aylesbury Vale Stoke Mandeville is not just a much appreciated local health facility for it has left a very big footprint on the world. The Paralympics are a particular source of pride for it is Stoke Mandeville Hospital and a remarkable surgeon Ludwig Guttmann who gave birth to the remarkable phenomenon of the Paralympics. As the first organised “Stoke Mandeville Games” took place in conjunction with the 1948 Olympic Games hosted in a war shattered London then for the 2012 games in London the Paralympics will truly be coming home!

http://daithaic.blogspot.com/2008/09/paralympic-games.html

Elections 5th May – The fightback begins

After two weeks pounding the mean and not so mean streets of Aylesbury where District & Town Council elections take place tomorrow the fear of cutbacks to services people value is palpable, the fear voters have for their ability to earn a living and for their children’s potential being realised is obvious. For since WWII every British Government has at least held out the promise that life will be better for the next generation and their children. However this Tory led coalition is holding out no such stall – Headed up by a slick marketing man they are applying the Hershey Bar technique. We are going to give it a shiny new wrapper, make it smaller and charge you more for less. This of course applies to the new ConDem army of the disposed, workers and pensioners who actually pay tax not non-Doms or Tory Tax exiles or the powerful lobbies funded by offshore companies.

For the truth is that this strange Coalition running the UK has rewritten the rule book. Forget Election manifestos and promises – the coalition of the Conservative Party which didn’t win the election and the Lib Dems who most definitely lost the election has a totally new agenda from the one their supporters voted for, the Conservatives have abandoned conservatism and the Lib-Dems have abandoned liberalism while their leaders lead them on a mongrel course of untried, untested and unproven radical policies which nobody voted for at breakneck speed – frequently falling over themselves in the process.





In the elections tomorrow voters are urged to show Cameron and Clegg that they can't carry on with policies which have no public backing. Labour today released a document detailing the divisive policies which the Tories and Lib Dems are pursuing without a mandate: No mandate for NHS reorganisation; No mandate for police cuts; No mandate for VAT rise; No mandate for their squeeze on middle-income families; No mandate for abolishing EMAs and Future Jobs Fund or trebling tuition fees. Last year the Tories fell short of a majority in the General Election, unable to command the support of the British people for their right-wing agenda. Since then, rather than proposing reform that commands consensus, David Cameron's Tory-led Government has attempted to force through right-wing policies for which they have no mandate.



I’ve heard from so many people on the doorsteps who are deeply concerned about what this government’s plans will mean for them and for their families. People are worried - about the future of local services like schools and sure start, about how much damage the government’s ‘reforms’ will do to our NHS, about how they’ll make ends meet in retirement if they have to wait longer for their state pension. And they’re worried about what this government will mean for the next generation: £9,000 university fees, the EMA scrapped and 1 in 5 young people out of work.

Let’s send a message to the Con-Dem government that we deserve better than this:

http://www.unionstogether.org.uk/sendamessage

Tomorrow, voters across much of the country go to the polls to elect the people who will run their local councils and, in Wales and Scotland, the Assembly and the Parliament. Every vote for Labour tomorrow is a vote against this Tory-led government’s unfair cuts.



As Cameron, Clegg and Osborne cut from Westminster; it is those people in local councils and in the Scottish and Welsh governments who will have to pick up the pieces as their budgets are slashed. Already we’ve seen local services squeezed as local decision-makers are forced to pass on the cuts handed down from the Tories in Westminster.



By voting Labour, you can help to make sure local councillors and the Scottish and Welsh governments do everything they can to limit the damage done by these vicious Tory cuts. By voting Labour, you can help send a message to this Tory-led government that their cruel cuts are wrong, and there is a better, fairer way. Help us send this government a message, by emailing your friends and family to let them know why you think it’s important to vote Labour tomorrow.



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