This is YOUR chance to question the man who could control the future of the national health service.
The Conservative shadow health secretary, Andrew Lansley, is answering questions from M.E.N. readers.
Mr Lansley has been in charge of Tory health policy for the last six years and has recently outlined his plans to improve the NHS.
Despite the grim economic outlook he has pledged to increase NHS resources in real terms in each year of the next Parliament.
You might also like to ask him about his plans to strengthen GPs' role in buying local services and to increase patient’s control of their health care.
Mr Lansley, MP for South Cambridgeshire, has promised to answer ANY of your questions regarding the NHS.
He told the M.E.N: “People in the north west want to know that their access to NHS services in the area is secure. Under a Conservative government it would be.
“I look forward to hearing M.E.N readers’ concerns and discussing Conservative plans to improve the NHS.”
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When you go to a private hospital you feel the staff know where the land lies and customer is king in a round about way. If you go to the NHS although you pay money in you still get the feeling as if you are owned by the NHS.
Esso Blue, I think that's very true. The really frustrating things is that the NHS is now treated like a sacred object which cannot be questioned in any way at a high political level without the questioner being villified, so we've got almost every party using the same basic claim: "The NHS is great and the best system possible, but we will make it even better."
I'd have more time for politicians if they had the guts to admit that the NHS itself might actually be a rubbish system for delivering healthcare and they'd be willing to look at alternatives, rather than always starting from the base position of "the NHS is safe with us."
Black Flag, My idea would be to carry on paying in the money but to an insurance company and at the same time the money paid in also goes to help the less fortunate. If your ill on the NHS they will do everything in their power to get you into work. They are not interested in how your are suffering they just expect you to carry on turning the cogs.
I don't want to go on but I was talking about depression before and one of the main things I think you need with it is rest and plenty of it and sometimes to the extent you have to give up work until you recover. But with the NHS they want a quick fix, pill, in work, that is my view why people lose the plot even more is because of how you are pushed. I will never feel obligated or anyone anymore.
The question I would like to ask Lansley is " should the Tories who hate The N.H.S. get in power how many hospitals they plan to close, after all it was his party that closed Ancoats, Monsall, The Northern and The Jewish hospitals without spending a penny on the hospitals that were left.
I am unable to attend in person,but would like answers to the following....What would the Tories do to end quangos,excessive back room staff and managers,outsourcing(especially cleaning),PFI,PPP,staff having no lockers and in house laundry facilities.
I t should be noted that whilst Labour have continued these policies(and in the casr of PFI and PPP actually increased these) ,they were virtually ALL tory ideas and policies initially. God help anyone these days who has to go into an NHS hospital.We are back to Victorian times,where more patients are dying of infections ,and complications than on the poerating table.
By the way ,why are we still importing so many NHS staff from overseas,when we have people of our own some trained,some willing to be trained ,who cannot obtain these jobs?
I would ask Mr Lansley..."will you commit to getting rid of the biggest cause of wasted time and sheer work-avoidance in the NHS, the nursing station."