Dr Bob Gill and Dr Paul Hobday, together with Colin Crilly from Keep Our St Helier Hospital (KOSHH), will be visiting the Isle of Wight to host a film screening of ‘$ell-Off – The Abolition Of Our NHS’ as part of the Save our NHS Campaign locally.
‘$ell Off’ by Peter Bach, features co-producer Dr Bob Gill and many other health professionals on the front line. The film is 57 minutes long and charts how successive Governments have operated over the last 40 years and their complicity in the dismantling and privatisation of our NHS.
It describes how corporate interests, rather than patient care, are what is driving reform in today’s NHS and how this will divert money away from patient care and into the pockets of private companies, global corporations and their shareholders.
Following the film, there will be a Q&A session and the speakers will update the audience as to what is happening right now and what can be done to save the NHS.
The visit will also promote ‘The Deceit Syndrome’, written by retired GP Dr Paul Hobday. The book maps his experience as a family GP. Set in the present day it highlights many incidents from the past. Dr Paul Hobday will also be at Waterstones, Newport between 14:00 and 16:00 to sign his book.
A spokesperson for IOW Save Our NHS says:
“It is vital that the public are given the opportunity to know the facts about what is happening to our NHS.
“Patients are now beginning to feel the impact of cuts to our NHS as they find it increasingly difficult to access their GP, have to wait excessive periods of time to be seen by specialist consultants and undergo elective surgery, and are being denied certain procedures that are no longer available on the NHS.
Article continues below this advertisement “Campaigners including many health professionals believe that the NHS is in serious danger of being converted to an American-style healthcare system, which is one of the most expensive, inefficient and deadliest in the world. Profit would come before people, health rationing would become the norm for those who cannot afford to pay and many will die. Time is running out and our NHS as we know it, free at the point of delivery, could disappear forever in the not too distant future.
“NHS campaigners are frequently accused of scaremongering, but we would ask those who make such an accusation to attend the film screening, to read Dr Paul Hobday’s book and to give some thought to the possibility that there is validity to our claims which should be taken seriously”.
The free event will take place at the Riverside Centre, Newport on Saturday 28th September between 18:00 and 21:00. Seating is limited so reserve your place at https://selloffnewport.eventbrite.co.uk, by calling 01983 299432 or email [email protected].
