FIX OUR NHS!
Stand up, march and protest to rescue the service from disaster
YOUR NHS is in crisis – and today it needs your help to save it by joining tens of thousands of people in protests across Britain.
You should not have to march – because your right “to care and treatment that is appropriate to you and meets your needs” is enshrined in law. Yet every day we hear how the Tories are failing. Hospitals full, operations cancelled and staff at breaking point. We are even used to patients waiting in corridors on trolleys. Last week, 42 ambulances were turned away from A&E, up from 20 the week before. And cancer survival rates lag behind comparable countries. None of this is “appropriate care” and, if you are in an ambulance turned away at a hospital, your needs are hardly being met. Theresa May and her government seem to act as if the NHS is some kind of perk you are lucky to have. That’s why today we urge you to stand up for your right to decent free health care and join the Health Campaigns Together and People’s Assembly march to No10 Downing Street. As campaigner Dr Louise Irvine says: “The NHS will only last as long as people are prepared to fight for it.” As well as the Downing St march there are 50 other protests in Britain. So take action – before it’s too late. People’s Assembly and Health Campaigns Together to Fix The NHS meets at 12pm, Gower St, Central London.
See thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/nhs_fix_it
FOR the Tories to abolish A&E waiting time targets that are regularly missed is crass dishonesty on a dangerous scale.
The dilution, sidelining and abolition of National Health Service goals is the political equivalent of chopping down the mast in the hope nobody spots the white flag.
Because the Tories are surrendering in the battle to improve the NHS.
Instead they starve hospitals and doctors of precious funds while privatising chunks of the service to line the pockets of fatcats.
A&E units, at times, resemble war zones due to chronic underfunding and staff shortages – years of Tory neglect coming home to roost.
Axing targets does not improve care but the Tories know its harder to pin on them when they are going so badly wrong.
Fiddling figures is an old Conservative trick, Margaret Thatcher doing it to unemployment statistics and now Theresa May with the NHS.
Patients know the truth. Tories are fools to try and pull the wool over people’s eyes.