The NHS has been systematically privatised, fragmented and starved of funds.
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 have 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 NHS has been fragmented by the Health & Care Act of 2022, and the 10-Year Plan 2025 will open it up to more privatisation so the NHS is no longer national, universal and public, but ready to be transformed into a USA type of insurance-based healthcare system.
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 own the NHS. Its assets, its staff, its equipment are all paid for by us, the people. Yet for 40 years, successive governments of all hues have provided the means for profiteers to rob us of the fruits of the taxes we pay to support it. Now, therefore, we are reclaiming the NHS.
We campaign:
- For publicly funded, publicly provided and publicly owned systems of health and social care.
- To defend what remains of our public NHS, and campaign against the privatised services being introduced under the Health & Care Act and the 10-Year Plan written by private health profiteers.
- 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.
Watch for free the film “The Great NHS Heist” 1.5hrs, Dr Bob Gill, Producer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Www0cHLQulw
“The NHS will be no longer a provider of services; it will be a badge and a budget. And the budget will be controlled by the insurance industry and services provided by private corporations for profit, And the profit will be maximized by the denial of care.” Dr Bob Gill, Bexley, Kent