Media Complaints
The national media have either wholeheartedly supported the government's programme to destroy the NHS or done little to challenge it. National media rarely report challenges and opposition to destruction of NHS services. Government criticisms of the NHS, including comments about 'uncaring staff' are often repeated without context or analysis, including the immense pressures on staff working in understaffed under-resourced facilities, with senior managers bent on achieving performance targets rather than high quality care. NHS changes are often too complex to make good soundbite news - or, it seems, for reporters to fully understand.
It's often easier to get articles into local papers, particularly for news about cuts to local services. But we also need people to complain loudly and often to the national media, and particularly to the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 about, for instance:
The national media have either wholeheartedly supported the government's programme to destroy the NHS or done little to challenge it. National media rarely report challenges and opposition to destruction of NHS services. Government criticisms of the NHS, including comments about 'uncaring staff' are often repeated without context or analysis, including the immense pressures on staff working in understaffed under-resourced facilities, with senior managers bent on achieving performance targets rather than high quality care. NHS changes are often too complex to make good soundbite news - or, it seems, for reporters to fully understand.
It's often easier to get articles into local papers, particularly for news about cuts to local services. But we also need people to complain loudly and often to the national media, and particularly to the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 about, for instance:
- failure to report that the NHS has been widely recognised as among the most efficient and effective healthcare systems in the world
- failure to hold successive governments to account for the massively wasteful PFI schemes that are driving many NHS Trusts to bankruptcy
- failure to report the massive waste of NHS resources paying for marketisation
- failure to report real-terms funding cuts in the face of increased demand and costs of services and international comparisons showing the UK has among the lowest levels of healthcare funding per person in the developed world
- their failure to report the wholesale destruction of the NHS through the Health and Social Care Act 2012, and drive to marketise services leading to massively wasteful procurement costs and NHS funding being syphoned off into private profit
- non-reporting of failures of privatised services
- connections of MPs and peers to private healthcare providers, resulting in major conflicts of interests
- non-reporting of the proposed NHS Reinstatement Bill 2015
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BBC
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ITV
Website: www.itv.com Complaints Tel: 0844 409 6850 Correspondence Address Viewer Services Gas Street Birmingham B1 2JT GENERAL Ofcom: www.ofcom.org.uk ATVOD (Authority for Television On Demand): www.atvod.co.uk ASA (Advertising Standards Authority): www.asa.org.uk |
Channel 4
Website: www.channel4.com Complaints Tel: 0843 254 9025 Correspondence address Channel 4 Enquiries PO Box 1058 Belfast BT1 9DU |
