E-Petition for Pensioners to help with a healthier diet

Hi

I'm a full time carer and moderator on a carer forum.

We have started an e-petition on the No. 10 website to ask for an allowance for pensioners on low incomes to eat a more healthy diet, including more fresh fruit and vegetables something that often gets overlooked with soaring fuel costs and other living expenses. The Government is looking at a similar allowance of £200 for pregnant women, we would like to see this extended to our elderly and vulnerable population.

Age Concern are currently running a campaign to address nutrition in hospitals, elderly patients are leaving hospital malnourished not only because of poor food but because the staff have no time to help them feed, it's usually down to visitors, something I witnessed first hand a few weeks ago when my Mum was admitted to hospital - being blind she would have starved had we not gone in at mealtimes.

The petition is open to all UK residents and ex-pats, we currently have 215 signatures in just over 2 weeks (the petition runs for a year), now we have hit the 200 mark we are guaranteed a response from No. 10 but obviously the more we get the more chance we have of bringing this idea to fruition.

The link for the petition is:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/freshfruitveg/

Thank you for taking the time to read this, I hope you can support our cause.

Paula - National Carers Forum
http://tonyrhodes.f.xaviermedia.com/

Re: E-Petition for Pensioners to help with a healthier diet

Actually the petition is worded so that all pensioners regardless of their income would be given a lump some, that could include the Queen if you follow the idea through! ALSO how would you monitor that the money was spent on fruit and veg?

Lastly you are guaranteed an answer from the WEB TEAM NOT number 10, get your facts right please, I know for you and Tony this is a difficult thing to do. Also when you get your reply from the web team ask them to name ONE POLICY that their e-petitions have affected, I could give you the answer but you won't accept it because the truth is a difficult concept for you and Teddy to adhere to

E-Petition for Pensioners to help with a healthier diet

Have your say

E-Petition for Pensioners to help with a healthier diet

Re: E-Petition for Pensioners to help with a healthier diet