Today I am a deeply unhappy person - this letter of complaint to my MP will explain why. I am supposed to be resting having had a surgical procedure carried out on me this morning - instead I find myself fighting for my treatment to continue on a regular basis.

This is what I wrote to my MP, James Arbuthnot :

Dear Mr Arbuthnot,

Re: NHS Cuts that effect me personally.

I am a constituent of yours, and actually voted for you in the last election too.

David Cameron promised there would be no cuts to the NHS in May 2010 in an interview with Andrew Marr on the BBC.
Today, I arrived at Frimley Park Hospital for my routine 12 weekly day surgery that I have to enable me to cope with severe chronic pain. It entails having several injections and epidurals, but having them makes a considerable difference to my quality of life. They don't make me pain free, but they do make the pain bearable, and allow me to carry on a relatively normal life within the bounds of my problems.
I was wheeled down to the Theatre as had happened on any other occasion, and went through all the usual procedures of being clerked in, and double checking everything before I was put to sleep. In the theatre, the Consultant, who I have been seeing every 12 weeks for several years, came to talk to me. Usually this chat is to relax you, and a few pleasantries are exchanged. I hold my Consultant in very high regard, and I could see how hard it was for her to say what she was about to tell me.
She informed me that the PCT for Frimley Park Hospital were no longer willing to permit patients in my circumstances to come in on a 12 weekly basis. In future I would ONLY be offered an appointment for treatment every 6 months. This shocked me, and I asked what was I supposed to do about pain relief the rest of the time (about 30 weeks in every 52) where I was no longer going to be benefiting from the drugs they inject into my spine to ameliorate the problem. The reply was - she didnt know, her hands were tied, and despite my clinical need for treatment every 12 weeks, I was going to be denied it because of budget cuts. I understood from the conversation, that she had to tell many people the same thing this morning. There was NO clinical basis for treatment being withheld, she was following PCT Manager's instructions.
Quite apart from the despicable way this was done - I was moments away from being anathetised in Theatre, and thus the timing was wholly inappropriate, I felt cheated and lied to by your party and David Cameron in particular. Shame on you.
You tell me how I am supposed to manage my life now I am being denied the treatment that helps make getting through each day tolerable, and allows me to be an effective member of society.
I am a recent cancer patient, and also diabetic, and as a result of cancer treatment live with Lymphodema, and Cellulitis too. I have already spent the past 3 years funding my own Lymphoedema treatment because the PCT at Basingstoke General has no staff capable of fulfilling this palliative care role for cancer patients. I am certainly not in a position to start being able to afford paying for the care I believe I am due by right on the NHS and am now being denied. I have paid my national insurance contributions all my adult life, and still do.
Would it be simpler perhaps if David Cameron organised a prescription for me that lead to a fatal overdose, and then I wouldnt cost the NHS anything ever again. You have no concept of how difficult my life is, and now I am denied the one thing that makes life tolerable. Life wont be worth living if I have to spend most my time in agony, or so dosed up on oral painkillers, it prevents me leading any kind of normal life.
Shame on you all.
I'd like to know what you are going to do to help me and those like me who depend on their treatment for a reasonable quality of live.
Yours sincerely,
Zoe Lynch