Oh to be in England, now its Bombs Away

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Category: Syria

10 Downing Street
London
SW1A 2AA

April 17th 2018

Oh to be in England, now its Bombs Away (apologies to Robert Browning)

Dear Prime Minister,

As a healer for these past 50 years, I wish you and your cabinet to note this analysis. It is obvious to a child that your order to bomb three sites in Syria had no basis in 'international law', although that has been shredded by HMG and others. That the twittering psychopath Trump took the lead confirmed the absence of any law.

Delayed and unclear responses to my request re CCG constitution: Integrated Care System - likely coup de grace for OUR NHS

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Dr Tim Burke BM Clinical Chair NEW Devon CCG 19th March 2018

Dear Dr Burke,

Thank you for arranging to meet me and my erstwhile colleague David Jameson-Evans. And I also thank you for the letter which followed with the clear minutes made by Clare Doble.

I accept your apologies contained in the letter. I have learned, much too late in the day and with some anger, that there was a worthwhile electoral process for all NEW CCG medical officers. This extract of the minutes adds clarity -

Dr Halpin therefore sought evidence that this was an electedprocess and wrote to the CCG onMarch 3rd 2017, but the documents that Dr Halpinreceived did not give reassurance on the process, detail or clarity as to how theclinically elected membership of the CCG had arisen. (collected correspondence)

In the absence of a coherent response to my question re constitution, and 5 months after I wrote to Dr Jenner of the NEW CCG , I instructed Mr Selman Ansari of Bindmans. He wrote to you on the 22nd August (4), that being over 5 monthssince my brief and courteous letter to Dr Jenner. You replied 25th October.

UK disadvantaged and a laughing stock

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MP for Central Devon

Dear Mr Stride,

I copied a letter to you which was addressed to Mr Corbyn who has been speaking about law and above the catcalls.  Your response was automatic, which given the threatening environment of lies and the blackest of propaganda from HMG/BBC/'media' was inadequate.  That letter is second below.  Against HMG and BBC claims of 'democracy' I often receive no responses from you.

This letter immediately below is from Craig Murray, our former ambassador in Uzbekistan.  He crossed our much vaunted democracy by revealing how Islamic 'dissidents' were being tortured to death, the corpses dumped on their loved ones and the ''''intelligence'''' sent to the CIA and thence to MI6.  READ IT and attempt to serve our benighted country better.  He provides evidence from the horses mouth (ex-Porton) and receives information from experts it seems.

Parish Council

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Summary re track leading straight up from four cross way to Ridge Road: It is not 'Gulmswell Lane'

David Halpin FRCS

http://map.devon.gov.uk/dccviewer/MyLocalPaths/> LABELLED TRACK

No apologies for length. This is a very important business

History

Farms in hilly parts of Devon were poor. Wagons were not afforded. Pack horses were used to bring the crops in. Small numbers of animals would be driven up to pastures as they greened up. If wagons were available they could not be driven up this track or driven down given the steepness.

My custodianship

I opened up the long disused buddles/drains before we bought the 25 acres from the Boyds – about 32 years ago because I like to see things working and damage reversed. After the purchase I attended to them about 3 times a year and often with paid help. (Buddles above Home House Orchard and up Barcombe Lane were also opened up.) Later, when I was chairman of the Village Hall committee, heavy concrete lintels were spare. These being ideal for diverting water into the buddles, one was used for each buddle. They were fastened to the bedrock. Mark helped me in this - paid. There had been two 'rallies' prior to this – Midland Motor Club. The rallies involved at least 100 VW Beetles ?2WD. Some needed extraction by tractor. The track was widely flattened including the primroses and other flowers. Mrs Sutton, a widow of the Paignton Park Superintendent who lived by the road to Stoke, liked to walk the paths. She wept at the vandalism.

Address to Exeter Socialist Workers' Party: and NHS in Crisis – Fix it Now

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I will describe the manufactured changes in the service, note fragments of the chaos, the public mind and how we might turn the tide. There will be plenty of time for questions and for contributions from you. You know that OUR NHS is in the ICU and that many want it dead.

My background helps

Qualified 1964 St Mary's. Came to the old RD&E, just down Southernhay, in 1969. After 11 years of training I became a Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon at Torbay and the very good Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital which the politicians bulldozed.

I have seen frequent and mostly harmful convulsions in the service arising from political dogma. Remind me to speak of a solution I have seen for 20 years. I have almost always spoken up; sadly that sets me apart from a large majority of doctors.

1988 was a good example. That most vicious leaderene was pushing for the 'Internal Market', a hospital dog eats hospital dog. Professor Enthoven, formerly of the Rand Corporation, had been flown over. I briefed myself and could see harm in at least 3 directions, but especially the cost of a swollen bureaucracy. All Torbay consultants turned up for a presentation by the unpleasant Regional General Manager, Ms Kathreen Hawkins. I stood and said – 'with the cost of administration now being 5%, is it not likely that it will double with these plans?'. '7% at the most'. I stood again and was told to SIT DOWN' by the surgeon chairman. That still hurts. No support from my fellows. The Internal Market, which was opposed by the BMA and colleges was rammed through. £1.3+ billion of administration costs were added to a budget of £30 billion – 5% to at least 10% in the first year. I was alone amongst the consultant staff at Torbay in fighting it. That set the pattern – of being alone in this most vital of things.