About Us (2022) – Reclaim the NHS – take back what was ours

Our National Health Service was once the envy of the world – not any more.
The NHS has been systematically privatised, fragmented and starved of funds. This causes needless suffering and forces those who can afford it into private health insurance

There are serious shortages – of properly qualified staff, beds and equipment – leading to needless suffering.

Meanwhile we have a growing population with complex needs. People face growing poverty, poor housing, joblessness and a mental health crisis.

90% of the provision of social care for the elderly, disabled and young is now privatised. Vulnerable people’s access and support to social care has been devastated by a toxic mix of massive budget cuts and reclassifying medical conditions as social care not medical care. Care is being rationed on cost not need.

The final body blow to the NHS will be the Health and Care Bill. This fragments the NHS so it is no longer national, and imposes American-style healthcare in England.

In place of offering a public service it makes patients’ needs secondary to private profit, and the strategic goals of international healthcare companies. Profits will be made by denial of care and deskilling of staff.

It represents the theft of almost 75 years of public investment in our health and is a betrayal of the British people who never voted for it.

We campaign:

For publicly funded, publicly provided and publicly owned systems of health and social care.
To defend what remains of our NHS, and campaign
against the Health and Care Bill.
To reclaim the NHS.
End privatisation!
End corporate takeover of GP practices, nationalise private hospitals, end PFI contracts, end all outsourcing within the NHS and social care.
Increase the capacity of the health care system – of staff, beds, and equipment.
Introduce a National Care Service – publicly owned, publicly provided and publicly funded.
Raise standards of training of all health and care staff together with nationally, union-negotiated pay and conditions.
Reintroduce systems of public accountability.