The news that health campaigners fearing for the future of the NHS in Dorset are to stage a protest this week (Dorset Echo,13 April) outside the Dorchester offices of the Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), and your story about Weymouth and Portland Health and Wellbeing Group writing an open letter to the CCG to plead with them not to change Dorset County Hospital (3 April), are stark indications of just how much damage is being done, and how much every reader of this paper has to lose.

Because the NHS is being dismantled, brick by brick, as budgets are cut, year on year; and staff are expected to do more with less and less.

The Secretary of State's responsibility for the NHS was abrogated with the Health and Social Care Act (2012), and since then there has been a steady trot towards privatisation.

All that will be left of the NHS soon will be a brand name, for private cherry-picking to hide behind. No longer a partnership; just an excuse for profit.

The law has to be changed to stop this. The NHS (Reinstatement) Bill – laid before Parliament earlier this month – does just that. It restores the NHS and protects it from attempts to carve it apart. But MPs need to know they can’t ignore it. People have never had a better time to let their prospective MPs know they can’t ignore them.

Alan Taman

Campaign for the NHS (Reinstatement) Bill 2015