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We fight for an NHS which is comprehensive and universal; which is free for all at the point of use; which is publicly owned, publicly provided and publicly funded. This was the basis of the NHS when it was first established on 5th July 1948. A government publication at the time stated: “It will provide you with all medical, dental and nursing care. Everyone-rich or poor, man, woman or child – can use it or any part of it. There are no charges, except for a few special items…it will relieve your money worries in time of illness”.
We believe that over the past 40 years successive governments, Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem have dismantled the NHS. They have privatised a range of services, introduced the ruinous debt regime of the Private Finance Initiative, starved it of stable levels of funding, introduced regular reorganisations causing costs and muddle such as the newly formed Integrated Care Boards. They have failed to train sufficient staff – nurses, doctors, paramedics – to respond to increasing patient needs, and failed to retain the staff that do want to devote themselves to the service.
The effects of this deliberate and sustained attack on our most cherished national institution has been excess deaths, worry, uncertainty and misery.
The purpose of all the elements of this deliberate and sustained attack is to put profit into the pockets of corporate healthcare companies, private insurance companies and the banks.
We are pledged to reclaiming the NHS from the clutches of the profiteers by campaigning to “Renationalise the NHS”
We are developing a “Charter for Health and Care”. At the core of the charter is a vision for national health and national care services completely freed from the expense, fragmentation and corruption introduced through opening up the NHS to private profit. We believe it is necessary to go into the future with a programme which is more than just returning to the NHS as it was. This may mean challenging institutions, such as private hospitals which from the start undermined or had the potential to undermine the principle of public provision and ownership.