| # | Name | Comments |
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| 251 | Roger Moore | We reside in a country area, we use the local surgery. We have no wish to potentially have to travel to an urban locality to recieve the same or similar services to those we currently receive. Living in the country means no public transport so what is the justification to have to potentially have to travel further with this desire to reduce the use of cars.They might be fine for the urban areas but will this government ever get the message that one size does not fit all |
| 252 | Anonymous | |
| 253 | David Roy brown | DO NOT PRIVATISE , IT ONLY GIVES THEM POWER TO STEEL FROM US. IT ALSO MAKES THEM RICHER AND NO COMPASSION TOWARDS PATIENTS |
| 254 | Anonymous | Lose my surgery .Lose my vote ! |
| 255 | Samantha Brown | |
| 256 | Patrick Cleary | |
| 257 | Anonymous | |
| 258 | Alfredo de la Casa | GPs nurseries are one of the few things that woron int he NHS, dont change it! |
| 259 | John Chen | |
| 260 | mary f mulholland | We need to keep GPs practices and associates services in the local communities. There are assumptions, by the Government, that ALL patients have easy access to transport (i.e. private or public) or have relatives who can support them in accessing larger less local services. These are arrogant assumptions particularly as the population is an aging one with more people living independently. I am currently a fit and healthy 59 year old but realistic enough to realise that problems will occur as I age. I dread having to struggle to visit a polyclinic at some later stage in my life. |
| 261 | Anonymous | |
| 262 | Gary Levell | I am against the creation of polyclinics. |
| 263 | Lewis Holmes | |
| 264 | Richard Tinkler | |
| 265 | Dr K M HARRIS | This policy would act against local communities and especially affect those who have limited mobility and/or access to transport (private or publi0. It would be a further move in the wrong direction, as has been the closure of local Post Offices. |
| 266 | Fiona Crosse | I remain deeply puzzled as to why the Government seem to think that the market model of health remains a cost-effective approach to health care. The American health care system is an expensive, ineffective nightmare. Privatising health care is not the answer. Stopping endless, costly, ill thought out Government initiatives like the Darzi clinics might be a way forward. In the long run, reversing the Purchaser/Provider split, initiated in Margaret Thatcher's Government, would reduce the massive "transaction costs" in the NHS and all the attached administrators of the unwieldy system. Let's be proud of a socialised, humane health care system paid for through taxation. I do not want to waste my taxes on private companies' profits. Private companies will target the worried well who can pay for extras and ignore the old, the sick, the vulnerable and the disabled [still to be cared for by aless well-funded nHS?]. This headlong rush to privatise the NHS will worsen the nation's health. |
| 267 | Sally-Ann Burgon | |
| 268 | Anonymous | Please stop rotting OUR health. Save the money and put it back into supplying more Doctors |
| 269 | JZ Bak | the clinic my family attend for the last 25 years we can see the same doctor who has seen us for the last 25 years and knows our medical history ,and I would like to keep it this way ,
why does the goverment think they always know better ,
ignore the man in the street at your peril , |
| 270 | Anonymous | This is silly people that live in the countryside would have to far to travel and it is nice having services close by |
| 271 | Anonymous | |
| 272 | Anonymous | |
| 273 | Ashok Patel | I am against the way the government is handling the NHS and am very worried by yht e short term , blinkered thinking they are using. |
| 274 | Malcolm Wilson | |
| 275 | Eileen Wilson | |
| 276 | P Berry | |
| 277 | John Robertson | Yet more government interference masquerading as an "improvement". |
| 278 | simon albert | see the article by Howie in the BMJ week 7th June - echos my feelings on polyclinics - beware the government is going to throw the baby out with the bathwater! Do you want to be remembered as the government which destroyed the NHS? |
| 279 | Peter Mitson | I have no problem with extra services being added to my town, but not at the expence of my own doctor. I have a very good relationship with my Doctor, and feels he understsnds me. I would not like to go to a clinic where I wouldn't know who I was going to see, or being treated like a number on a list |
| 280 | D Lindsay | Against this stupid idea. No to polyclinics |
| 281 | Anonymous | |
| 282 | David Berridge | |
| 283 | Catherine Macdonald | I want my medical care in the hands of doctors, not businessmen. I also want a local surgery, rather than a larger but therefore more distant polyclinic. |
| 284 | Elaine Nation | |
| 285 | Anonymous | Yet another reason never to vote Labour again. |
| 286 | Dionisio Izquierdo | |
| 287 | David cuthbertson | The goverment just want to know everything about the patients, i like my local surgery. It is round the corner from my house and offers everthing my family needs from a gp surgery. gorden brown is a control freak and is ruining this country one day at a time |
| 288 | Mrs K Bak | |
| 289 | Feyzi Ismail | |
| 290 | Miss R Cottrell | I have an excellent local GP, dentist and chiropodist who have given me continuity of care for over 10 years. I do not want to see GP who would not know me in a large clinic based within a hospital setting, a further mile away from where I live. |
| 291 | pam goldman | I do not believe that my health care will be improved by supersized surgeries. I want to know my GP personally and vice versa as this offers continuity of care which will be lost in polyclinics. I want my surgery to be as close to my home as possible and not travel considerable distances to a polyclinic.Past experiences show that once GP services are centralised and put into larger surgeries they become de -personalised .The larger any organisation becomes the trend is for it to become less not more efficient.I also believe that this is part of the Government's agenda and process in the drive to privatise the NHS.Who will fund polyclinics,not the NHS as the budget is stretched to the limit now as can be seen by postcode lottery for some types of medication. Thin end of the wedge for the survival of family GPs and their surgeries. |
| 292 | Nicky Gregory | All our local facilities are beng erroded and polyclincs will enevitably lead to a loss of local doctors surgeries. |
| 293 | richard edwards | This government doesnt listen |
| 294 | shirley edwards | |
| 295 | A Gowen | |
| 296 | David V.Abbott | |
| 297 | Anonymous | |
| 298 | Caroline Brown | |
| 299 | Anonymous | I think that polyclinics should be stopped as they are not reliable or safe. I also support this petition because a member of my immediate family is a doctor. |
| 300 | Anonymous | good luck |