NHS reforms blamed for Tories' lost poll lead

Is it any suprise.The coalition said very clearly before the election, 'no top down reforms to NHS'.They both lied as on other matters.As the election was so close those lies clearly swung it .Electors should remember that we cannot trust Tories with NHS .(and I guess ditto Lib/DemThe previous government for all its faults increased staffing and finance in the NHS after little increase in NHS funds in 80's/90's.As a result patient care improved and waiting times fell.It will now go in reverse.

Oh and it has nothing to do with how they are wrecking peoples lives with their cuts on the working people.

Its about time but the labour party may need to re-consider their lead....While Ed Miliband may be nice!!!!! nice doesn't run the country!!!!

Cameron will walk awy from the next european summit and his poll ratings will shoot up again this is the only card he can play and the gullible public will fall for it time and time again his only interests are himself and his rich banker cronies

oh how sad i really am upset poor things..never mind the sun/express will cook up some fake report on how there are several trillion benefit scroungers living in gold plated palaces and urinating on the union flag or something..

This will become camerons poll tax moment, it is privatisation, no matter how the tories dress it up, they will lose the next election if this goes through, they will listen to no one, remember camerons promise?, I will be a listening prime minister, he is not listening and will pay dearly for it.

It won't be just the poll lead they will lose. They won't stand a chance at the next election. Voters should get rid of every MP who votes for Lansley's Bill.

Mr Cameron i going to see you all leaving office come the election because labour will walk it the people asked for a referendom on th Dreaded EU you did not listen.
People dont want your changes on N.H.S at all and to top it free bus passes you are trying to get rid of and cold weather payments too.
You should do what you said you said we can call you to book well call an election then it will prove we can call you to books if you dont do your job because i think you are doing a very bad job full stop and dont listen to the people why .
The people put you in office at least give them the chance too take you out.

No party will be popular all the time it is taking, taking, taking.
NHS reforms on top of pension reforms, after reducing heating allowance for the pensioners.
Than employing the CPI for increases to pensions which is not the true rate of inflation as the RPI is.
Everything this government has done has cost the ordinary citizen more tax and a lower living standard.

Well they only have themselves to blame, or rather Mr Cameron to blame, who seems stuck on the first page of tory dogma and just does not see that this is the perception a significant number of people have arrived at,over the last few weeks

NHS reforms are only part of the reason.... then there's tuition Fees, weakness over europe, the abu khatara farce, saber-rattling towards iran and argentina, failing to do anything about the economy, bringing back hunting, bankers bonuses, declaring war on social drinkers, the greed, the hypocracy, the pretence that 'we are all in it together', the pretence that they're not just upper-class toffs and so on and so on

Cameron is pursuing policies of mass destruction

And where did the rest of the 'percentage' go?
Probably to the BNP but our corrupt anti-democratic establishment and media barrons would NEVER print the whole truth.
Cons down five. Libs down two. But Labour only up one?
Where's the missing SIX percent?

The NHS bill which thank god does not apply to Scotland; is not about making the NHS more efficient or more effective and not about improving patient choice. It is about the present government trying to reduce/cut resources to the NHS which it does not believe in or support and putting the blame for its eventual mismanagement on to local management boards. When things go wrong [and lets face it they are going wrong and it will get worse] the government will be able to say "its not our fault we have given these local groups the resources and they have set their priorities" and they carry the can. Bringing in the private sector is about profit not about quality of care. GP’s and consultants need to spend their time on clinical care not at board meetings and pouring over paperwork. Management time has to come from somewhere. Clinicians can also be political animals driven by personal agendas.

The conservatives cannot be trusted with the NHS they lied about so called "care in the community". They said that it was about patient choice and that the individual could choose whether they wished to be cared for in their own home rather than in a nursing home or hospital. History has proved that they then went on to close thousands of hospital beds; acute, long-stay; psychiatric and geriatric. Local authorities closed thousands of places for the elderly in the homes which they run, and resources in the community have been eroded ever since because of cuts in government funding. The result is that care in the community now means that thousands of elderly people have to pay private nursing homes for their care and use up their resources and sell their homes, just because the state no longer cares for them or about them. The vulnerable chronic long term psychiatric patients who are not acutely ill but need support are left floundering in a community which does not care.

David C & Nick C; Liar Liar pants on fire; It may be childish but it made me feel better!!!

NHS,.. no referendum,... veto (oh sorry now it,s a non veto) on euroland policies, parachuting friends into £8.5 million paid by the taxman!! That,s why the lead has gone , we,re back to the days of "the honest kind of a guy" and the forty thieves!!! Happy days are here again!!..... oh sorry that,s not for us..... we,re getting shafted again!!!!!

everyone knows the coalition wants to privatise the n.h.s, why wouldnt they everything else has been, electricity,gas, rail etc, and is everything better no, their mindset is such that anything they can get shares in the greedy rich will jump at. if these reforms go through how long before foundation trusts will be able to float on the stock exchange.

Money is scarce, everyone knows that but this government is using the recession to instigate policies which were never in their manifesto and are more to do with opportunism and political dogma than good sense. David Cameron appears to forget that he did not win the last election outright and he is skating on very thin ice. The Liberal Democrats have sold out and appear to be impotent within the coalition. The labour party find it impossible to make hard decisions. What the NHS needs is a long term strategy which is agreed by all political parties and clinical experts. Continual organisational changes achieve precisely nothing. They are cosmetic, wasteful and often highly destructive.

The conservatives tried to privatise the NHS through the “back door” before by the introduction of trusts and the purchaser/provider split. Indeed during Margaret Thatcher's time they did not even approve of calling it the NHS and simply called it "the health service". This same lady also maintained that “there is no such thing as society”. David Cameron maintains there is the “big society” in other words look after yourselves, because you can’t rely on us to do it.

For too long the public have been led to believe that the NHS is over-managed and miss-managed; this is simply not true. There are issues in regard to the planning, organisation and management; and allocation and use of scarce resources. But all successive governments have done is play with the problem and not deal with it. It is rather like presenting a plate of food to an anorexic [ no disrespect] they simply move the food around the plate creating the illusion that they have eaten something when in fact the ensuing chaos and mess means that it is difficult to see what has happened and they have eaten nothing.

As a person who has several professional clinical qualifications and held senior management posts within the NHS for many years prior to retirement I have had first hand experience of the smoke and mirrors which was used to create the illusion of progress and commitment. It destroys clinicians; managers and staff and undermines morale and does nothing for the Quality of Patient Care. The public must see these so called reforms for what they are before it is too late; the health professionals already do.

Yahoo will not print the truth. They are a tool of the government. Don't believe any of it.

Maybe the BNP will gain seats because we can't trust any of the other parties they have proved it, with broken promises the lot of them, so let's try a new party hey !