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02/03/2016
Call For MPs To Back NHS Bill
Union Unite is calling on its 100,000 members in the health service to urge their MPs to support a parliamentary bill to restore public accountability to the running of the NHS.
Unite is angry that since the Health and Social Care Act 2012 the public service ethos of the service has been continually eroded leading to increasing privatisation of the NHS for the benefit of profit-hungry private healthcare companies.
The National Health Service bill 2015-2016 aims to roll back the privatisation tide and restore the government’s legal duty to provide health services in England, currently outsourced to such unaccountable entities as NHS England and Public Health England.
The bill is due to have its second reading in the House of Commons on Friday 11 March and Unite members will be urging MPs to support the bill that will restore the NHS as an accountable public service; reverse 25 years of marketisation in the NHS; and abolish the purchaser-provider split.
Members are also being asked to sign the 38 Degrees NHS Service bill petition.
Unite is angry that since the Health and Social Care Act 2012 the public service ethos of the service has been continually eroded leading to increasing privatisation of the NHS for the benefit of profit-hungry private healthcare companies.
The National Health Service bill 2015-2016 aims to roll back the privatisation tide and restore the government’s legal duty to provide health services in England, currently outsourced to such unaccountable entities as NHS England and Public Health England.
The bill is due to have its second reading in the House of Commons on Friday 11 March and Unite members will be urging MPs to support the bill that will restore the NHS as an accountable public service; reverse 25 years of marketisation in the NHS; and abolish the purchaser-provider split.
Members are also being asked to sign the 38 Degrees NHS Service bill petition.
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