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to deter PARAMEDICS are to get body cameras follow. assaults – and doctors and nurses could after Jeremy Hunt ordered the security move NHS’S 1.5 million figures revealed 15 per cent of the from their staff had experienced physical violence patients or families over the past year. should feel The Health Secretary said: “Nobody unsafe at work and abuse against healthcare NHS workers goes against everything the stands for. will “Issuing paramedics with body cameras help protect them and increase prosecutions.” The first cameras will be issued to 465 year with ambulance crews by the end of the more to follow if the pilot is successful. That could be extended to doctors and nurses if they are at risk. THE NHS had a spectacular 70th birthday party on the streets of London yesterday as a colourful army of campaigners demanded it is protected for ever.
Despite scorching temperatures at least 50,000 people from all over Britain marched on Downing Street to give Theresa May a stark message.
They celebrated the achievements of the NHS but called for its staff to be valued and for an end to under-funding and NHS privatisation.
Coachloads of demonstrators had set off at dawn, from Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East to the Isle of Wight in the South, all heading to the capital.
They descended on London at midday as temperatures neared 30C.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who will today announce he will top the Prime Minister’s latest funding pledge by nearly £2 billion if he gets to power, told the crowds to “go to the end of the Earth and beyond” to defend the NHS.
“Our NHS was founded when people had vision,” he said.
“People in working class communities came together because they wanted each other to be healthy and they wanted to employ a doctor and nurse at a health centre in their own communities. The
There was a party atmosphere as the march snaked around London landmarks while thousands of tourists looked on.
A huge mock birthday cake was held aloft by the Save Lewisham Hospital campaign as the crowd sang happy birthday to the nation’s proudest achievement. Banners called for an end