article_snippet.sent: Meanwhile it emerged last night that a Labour-supporting GP had circulated a letter claiming that 'five years of flat-line funding' have 'crippled the NHS'.
article_snippet.sent: A version of the letter – organised by Dr Clare Gerada, the former chairman of the Royal College of GPs – claimed the 'direction of travel' under the Tories was towards privatisation, adding: 'Another five years of Tory austerity will sap staff morale and reduce the NHS to a poor service for poor people'.
article_snippet.sent: The signatories, including Professor John Ashton, retired director of public health, and Simon Capewell, professor of public health in Liverpool, wrote that the NHS 'is withering away'.
article_snippet.sent: The signatories, including Professor John Ashton, retired director of public health, and Simon Capewell, professor of public health in Liverpool said 'if things carry on as The signatories, including Professor John Ashton, retired director of public health, and Simon Capewell, professor of public health in Liverpool are then in future people will be denied care things carry on as they are then in future people once had under the NHS ' and have to pay more for health services.'
article_snippet.sent: In the latest attempt by Labour and the Left to 'weaponise' the NHS, 100 doctors last night released a letter which claimed the NHS NHS was 'withering away' under the Coalition and 'if things carry on as the Coalition are then in future people will be denied care they are then in future people once had'.
article_snippet.sent: It went on: Privatisation not only threatens coordinated services but also jeopardises training of our future health care providers and medical research, particularly that of public health.'
highlights_snippet.sent: GP circulated a letter claiming 'flat-line funding' had 'crippled' NHS .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Claimed the 'direction of travel' under the Tories was towards privatisation .
  