Sign our county wide petition against NHS Job Cuts

Clerk of Public Petitions signature:


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Presenting Member’s name and signature:


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PUBLIC PETITION


To the House of Commons.

The Petition of residents of Oxfordshire,

Declares that the Petitioners are extremely concerned about the scale of the debt in the Oxfordshire NHS. The existing Thames Valley Strategic Health Authority receives one fifth less than the national average of NHS spending and if Oxfordshire was simply funded half way towards the national average there would be no debt. This means the NHS in Oxfordshire has one fifth less to spend on acute hospitals beds, drug provision, and staff.

Further declares that of all Trusts in England, it is Oxfordshire which receives the lowest funding for treatment per patient. Government Ministers, including the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Health, will be benefiting by funding above the national average to the tune of sums by which Oxfordshire PCTs will be under funded.

Further declares that the blatant discrimination in the funding system for the NHS is not fair, cannot be justified, and means that in Oxfordshire NHS jobs are under threat, community care is under threat, mental health care is under threat, and operations and beds are under threat.

The Petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons calls upon the Government to urgently review the funding system for the NHS in England and Wales, to introduce fairer funding for the whole NHS, to stop staff, patients and families in Oxfordshire and other parts of the country being penalised.

And the Petitioners remain, etc.


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Notes for Presenting Member: A Member wishing to present a Petition formally must first have it endorsed by the Journal Office as being in order. The Member must then book a presentation slot in the Table Office. Slots can be booked at any time up to the following deadlines: Mondays and Tuesdays—12 noon on day of presentation; Wednesdays—10.30 am on day of presentation; Thursdays—09.30 am on day of presentation; sitting Fridays—rise of the House on Thursdays. (If the House sits on a Wednesday at 2.30 pm, the deadline is 12 noon, as for Mondays.)
Petitions are presented immediately before the half-hour adjournment debate at the end of business on Mondays to Thursdays, or at the beginning of business on sitting Fridays. The presenting Member rises and may make a brief statement as to whom the Petition is from, what it concerns and the number of signatures attached, and then reads out the prayer (the section beginning “The Petitioner(s) therefore request(s) that ...” or “Wherefore your Petitioner(s) pray that ...” to the end). After the Petition has been read, the Member brings the Petition directly from his or her place and drops it in the green bag hanging behind the Speaker’s Chair.

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