Wrote an open letter to the Director of Public Health for NHS Forth Valley

 Tuesday 28th May 2024

Created a new Blog series using Blogger.com to hold the goings on of my journey to receive treatment for Vasculitis.

This is the first post I have created using Blogger.com and if I can, I will add some earlier time entries to show the step by step progress before I got to this stage.

I initially created a petition using change.org but that created a very unfriendly user interface in my mind, and would be very off-putting if someone had sent the link to me. I suspended that petition and created a new one using Google Forms, which I am still using now.

The only thing missing from the Google Forms petition is a checkbox to allow supporters to indicate if they are a Dr (PhD) or not. I will attempt to add this feature in today to the form and hopefully it will not corrupt all of the results obtained so far.

Yesterday, the petition support from the Google Forms page on it's own reached 100 supporters. I have now produced an open letter to Dr Graham Foster to inform him of the support for my cause and to ask him to take the first step towards removing the blocks that are preventing me from receiving treatment.

The link to the petition is here - link 

Below is a link to a copy of the open letter that was sent off today (Blogger.com does not appear to allow you to upload PDFs - TBC).

Link to PDF letter 





Location: Larbert, Forth Valley Royal Hospital, Larbert FK5 4WR, UK

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