I SYMPATHISE with the anxiety of those who are "concerned and confused" over the future of our hospital services and there is good reason for this.

An article in the July 25 issue pf the Daily Telegraph – usually strongly Conservative – revealed that despite PM David Cameron's promises, the new bill abut the NHS already includes proposals for privatisation. Apparently, health minister Andrew Lansley is hiding behind a harmless-looking White Paper, 15 clauses which will allow private companies to buy and asset-strip the NHS.

The Bill itself is difficult to read so they may easily be missed, but from next April eight NHS services – including high security psychiatric services – will be opened up to competitive bids from the private sector.

These services are worth £1 billion and wealthy private companies will easily be able to outbid the local NHS and thus suck £1 billion from it.

Then, when the NHS units fail these probably will have to close, the private companies will be able to charge whatever they want.

The main part of the Bill is mostly concerned with opening up the NHS to private providers and even the role of Secretary of State is to be altered so that he will no longer be responsible for the NHS.

Many MPs seem naively to take Mr Cameron's assurances for truth without reading the Bill itself, but perhaps he is not such an honest man as he pretends. We have already seen how naive he was in the case of Andy Coulson, so perhaps we should be more suspicious.

The Bill will be read in Parliament on September 6 or 7, so there is not much time. The key to this vote will lie in the hands of the Liberal Democrats, so if any reader has influence on Lib-Dem MPs, I suggest immediate action, as some of them still believe there will be no privatisation.

The important clauses in the Bill are (SS.125-131 and 168-175) Telegraph, July 25 2011.

It's now or never.

Jay Travers

Blakeney