I have just received this email. I thought I remembered this being discussed earlier but if so I cannot find the thread. Dear friend/colleague Please support the petition for a dedicated military hospital. We should be very proud of the professionalism of our armed forces and they deserve the very best care we can provide for them when they are injured in the course of their duties. Please also circulate this e-mail to your friends and contacts. Some background: '2 Para' alone have on their current tour sent back over 50 casualties to the UK, and even this number cannot be accommodated at Selly Oak Hospital. So when all of the casualties from other battle groups are added to this figure, how is ONE ward in ONE NHS hospital going to cope? It cannot, and as a result the individual troops are sent home to recover relying on NHS visiting services which themselves are over committed. We need a dedicated military hospital if servicemen and servicewomen, who have been committed to hostilities and injured, are to get the medical care they rightly deserve. A lot more than 5000 names are needed for this petition to survive, and quite cynically, Downing Street has put a time limit of one month - during the summer holidays - for this to be achieved. Please support it - please copy the link below to confirm your signature on the petition. Please forward this email to as many people as you can. Thanks. Petition to: Create a dedicated Military & Veterans Hospital within the UK. The petition was created by Denzil Connick and reads: 'We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Create a dedicated Military & Veterans Hospital within the UK.' If you haven't already signed I urge you to do so now. p.s.I hope I have posted this in the right forum!
I shall be signing soon. Hopefully the government will actually listen and act. Thanks for bringing it to our attention, Nana.
Did you read this too ?? ... a bit more back ground ! Robin Wilton : Robin Wilton's esoterica : Weblog Annie
The government always does. Moor killed by PTSD and depression after the Falklands than died in the war itself. The contract with the NHS to give war injured priority for all treatment has been quietly removed. The selling off of vital equipment needed for war zones, the refusal to give vital equipment, the removal of life insurance for those going into combat zones. The Government has turned its back on them all.
