RE: Writing to MPs is a waste of time - reply from Burstow

August 31, 2010

What I fail to understand is that the letters that Burstow

is sending out to many complainers, is more or less a copy of the same letter

that the Labour Government DoH used to send out when they were in power. I am

collecting these letters altogether, so if anybody else wrote to their MP and

received a similar response from the DoH, please send it to me. Your response

is word for word what he sent to me.

I am waiting until the summer recess is over before I send a

very strong letter to my MP DEMANDING answers to my original questions which I

took a lot of time to ensure were correct in every way. Not one of the

questions I asked has been answered and they just use the same letters over and

over so they don't have to respond. I will go down to the House of Commons if

required to get a proper response. What made me so angry is that it is

absolutely obvious that my letter was NEVER EVEN READ - OTHERWISE, THEY WOULD

NEVER HAVE SENT THE RESPONSE TO ME THAT THEY DID.

Thanks for posting this on the forum , but please, don't

let them get away with this. Sock it back to 'em and demand each of your

questions be answered. List them 1,2,3,4 etc. and ask for answers to Q1,2,3,4

etc. and keep doing it until they get the message.

Luv - Sheila

Below is a reply I have received via my local MP Tracey Crouch. At the end of

his letter Mr Burstow said that if a person has any concerns over their

treatment or the drugs they are prescribed, they need to raise these concerns

with their GP or consultant. And if they do raise concerns over their treatment

or the drugs they are prescribed - then what????????? It all ends up with the

doctors saying that they are going by the RCP guidelines. One large Mobius loop

of bureaucracy and cop-out.

I am afraid that the Department's position has not changed since that reply.

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and the British Thyroid Association (BTA)

are independent of the Government. The Department of Health has no plans to ask

the RCP to withdraw its clinical guidelines for the treatment of this medical

condition. Nor does the Department have any plans to produce guidance on the

diagnosis or treatment of hypothyroidism. UK Guidelines for the use of Thyroid

Function Tests are published jointly by the Association for Clinical

Biochemistry, the BTA, and the British Thyroid Foundation.

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