I am disgusted to hear that Labour have put out a leaflet targeting people with cancer.  As a parent who lost his son to cancer to have recieved a leaflet suggesting that access to services would be scrapped under another party would have been painful to say the least.  If my son had still be alive with cancer it would have been soul destroying.  I can fully understand how many if not most of the 250,000 women felt when the leaflet fell through their letterbox.  What worries me is why and how were these quarter of a million women choosen?  Have Labour accessed the NHS database for their own political gain?  For familes blighted by cancer and other long term and terminal illnesses the fear of not getting access to services only adds to the stress or caring for a loved one.  Gordon Brown should publically apologise and who ever was behind the leaflet be sacked.

At a time when everyone is being told and knows that there will be cuts why are Chief executive pay increases more than double the rate of nurses pay last year.  It is a clear slap in the face to NHS staff and unfair.   Norman Lamb said “This is totally unacceptable. There is simply no justification for chief executives to receive pay increases that are far larger than those for frontline nursing staff.”  In this time of economic crisis the fairest way would have been for all staff to get the same real money amount.  If every NHS employee got £500 rise a nurse on £20,000 would get 2.5% whilst the Chief Executive on £150,000 would get 0.33%  but both would have £500 with which to buy their bread, milk or use towards their utility bill.

The NHS is a jewel in the British crown and we have to look after it.  After all a healthy nation is a nation that can work.  A working nation pays taxes, whcih can be used to clear the debts caused by the bankers and Labour.