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Nicola Sturgeon - Priority Healthcare for Veterans, Is it?
Help for Heroes Charity, Nil for Veterans!
1.This group should never be attacked by Veterans In Need for the simple reason that it rehabilitates our servicemen and women, often returning them to service, where our military people would often want to stay.
2.This group is a government fuelled, funded and publicised group that merely wishes to employ yet another ‘sting’ on the public, service personnel and Veterans. In return for closing almost every military hospital,, many of which before closure had been updated at the cost of tens of millions, for a new high glossed launch of a service to our wounded personnel that is a fraction of its previous worth.
3.The not so obvious problem that has been thrust at an unsuspecting public, and our service personnel, is that alike the disgraceful theatre of spin following the Falklands War, Simon Weston was the chosen one by the Government to illustrate how ‘all’ wounded service personnel were treated.
4.This ‘gift’ from the government dictates to many that this charity may well be tantamount to stealing a great deal from our military personnel in exchange for even less than can be envisaged, glossed over with the Hollywood treatment.
5.The MOD Help for Heroes website does not accommodate any space whatsoever to the Veteran. Are these people not heroes too?
6.If you attend the Help for Heroes website and search for the term ‘Veteran’ the response is ‘no results’ for Veteran. Is this an ominous sign?
7.Please support Help for Heroes, but nevertheless never forget that Veterans In Need's primary function is to cater for the 'heroes' that cannot be returned to work for the MOD and are abandoned by the government.
8.Veterans In Need thanked Help for Heroes on their official website and questioned what assistance they are delivering for our under represented Veterans in the UK.
9. In response to the question; What assistance was available from Help for Heroes, for Veterans? to the MOD’s man at Help for Heroes, Bryn Parry, in short was evasive but did directly tell that, "We don't assist Veterans"
Please read the response below;
Dear Mr Campbell
Thank you for your email. Help for Heroes is an urgent appeal aiming to raise £6million as quickly as possible to fund the building of a swimming pool/gym complex at the tri-service rehabilitation centre, Headley Court near Leatherhead in Surrey. We are simply set up as a fundraising office and do not have the infrastructure or staffing to do anything more than support fundraising efforts. May I suggest you have a look at the following http://www.veterans-uk.info/ (but I suspect you will probably already be aware of it!)
Kind regards,
Vix Willis
Unit 6, Aspire Business Centre, Ordnance Road,Tidworth, Hants, SP9 7QD
Tel: 08456731760
www.helpforheroes.org.uk
Help for Heroes is a Company limited by Guarantee.
Registered in England and Wales under number 6363256. Registered Charity
number 1120920.
Registered office: Steynings House,
Summerlock Approach, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP2 7RJ
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Nicola Sturgeon - Scottish National Party
Priority Healthcare for Veterans. Is It?
23/11/2007
NHS priority treatment will extended to all armed service personnel who have developed health problems as a result of service to their country.
At present, war veterans are only entitled to priority treatment for conditions relating to service if they receive a war pension.
However, Health and Wellbeing Secretary Nicola Sturgeon announced that all veterans will receive the same access as war pensioners following recent concern regarding the treatment of veterans by the NHS in Scotland.
Ms Sturgeon said:
"Our service men and women do an outstanding job and it is only right that those who have health problems as result of serving their country in the armed forces should get priority access to treatment".
"The Scottish Government fully supports these new measures and plans to implement these in a way that the benefits are fully realised."
Full guidance will be issued to NHS Scotland by early 2008. Allocation of priority treatment is a matter for the clinician in charge and is dependent on their judgement of the clinical need of the case.
This last paragraph could well prove to be a political loop-hole, which is tantamount to NO promise at all. Should you experience any event of than this article of law and you fail to receive priority treatment as a result of your illnesses/conditions serving our 4 countries; Veterans In Need MUST be informed!
Historic analogies that any society can and should be judged on its sense of fair play, in the light of governmental transparent lack of integrity and clarity, has never been more relevant than it is today. Read the Veterans Template.
Never write ‘Veteran’ with less than a capital V. Learn more about Veterans Vote.
Many good, solid, strong men and women who cannot be bullied, badgered, bought or blackmailed have gone out on a limb to ensure that Veterans have been awarded the assistance. We post our thanks in the Hall Of Fame.
Our Hall Of Shame will not turn into a turkey shoot, however shaming our politicians and others alike may just be the tonic required to gain a promotion to the Hall of Fame!
Priority Healthcare For Veterans, is it?.
Veterans In Need meeting with The Scottish Veterans Garden City Association, Friday 7th March 2008. Read about Veterans In Need meeting with the soon-to-be-renamed Houses For Heroes.
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