Please sign the petition to fund our NHS in the Autumn statement
Dear Chancellor,
Act now, use your autumn statement to avoid a winter NHS crisis.
- The NHS urgently needs more funding, to invest in staff, to stop cuts and avoid a crisis this winter.
- The evidence of underfunding is overwhelming and can’t be ignored without serious consequences for patients and staff.
- Over the next few years the situation will get far worse. Services will be £22bn short by 2020. As a society we must invest in the NHS as we all rely upon its care.
You must act now to lift the financial pressure and help the NHS to provide the care that people need.
Dr Rob Galloway, A&E consultant
"NHS staff need your help to protect our NHS."
“We’ve cut the number of district nurses. We’ve lost all our community matrons”
Louise Irvine, General Practitioner
“There is just not enough funding and we are seeing an increasing number of patients with mental health issues in general practice”
Sophie Galloway, GP Partner in West Sussex
“Midwives are increasingly stressed, increasingly frustrated, because when you love your job you want to do it properly”
Professor Cathy Warwick, Royal College of Midwives
“It feels really hard and it’s very depressing working with staff that are so demoralised”
Claire Jones, Health visitor and Registered General Nurse
“In my experience it is hard to do your job. There aren’t enough staff”
Emma Corlett, Unison steward at the Norfolk & Suffolk Mental Health Trust
“At the moment I’ve got 6 trained staff leaving the unit so that’s 6 trained nurses leaving at once”
Christine Jefferies, Registered General Nurse