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Mar. 16th, 2012 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blahflowersfrom Facebook, for those of you not on there who haven't heard:
Last Chance to Save Our NHS.
Saturday 14:30 until 16:30
Department of Health, opposite the cenotaph (SW1A 2NS)
Our NHS will be privatized if the Health and Social Care bill goes through. This means that instead of the NHS providing high quality health care for free on the basis of need – services will soon be given only to those who can afford them.
We must stop this bill from passing and protect our free health care.
We are calling for people to come out and stand up against this bill – to show the government that we will not allow them to privatize this great national service.
Join us outside the department of health in Whitehall on March the 17th and flood the streets with the sheer amount of people who care about free healthcare. The Government intend to vote the bill through on the 19th – let’s give them something to think about as they vote!
Everybody in this country has used the NHS at some point in their lives. If you have used the NHS then you agree with free healthcare.
Pass this facebook event along to everyone you know. Tell everybody you know what is happening to our NHS and that we can stop it. Let’s make this event HUGE. There is now also a protest before at virgin health on Oxford Street (http://www.facebook.com/events/255160124568190/) and an action leading on from this demo outside the department of health to a secret location - if you want to join in then follow the signal at the end of the demo (more info here: http://ukuncut.org.uk/actions/847).
We can make the government back down and drop the bill.
Get a large group together and book coaches down to London from wherever you are located. Bring friends, family, any political or social group you are part of. From writing letters to MPs, signing petitions, to civil disobedience – we must do everything we can to stop the bill!
Why the NHS must be saved:
- EVERYBODY DESERVES FREE HEALTHCARE
- A report last year found the NHS to be the second most cost-effective health system in the developed world.
- The NHS reached record satisfaction ratings in 2010.
This shows there is no need for this bill.
In short the bill will result in fewer services, more charges and exclusions. Also the government are refusing to publish their register of the risks the bill poses – this by itself is a warning of the dangers this bill could bring! For a good summary of the bill in its current form see here: http://www.allysonpollock.co.uk/administrator/components/com_article/attach/2012-03-09/Pollock_HouseOfLords_HSCB_StatementLibDem40Pts_09Mar12.pdf
Last Chance to Save Our NHS.
Saturday 14:30 until 16:30
Department of Health, opposite the cenotaph (SW1A 2NS)
Our NHS will be privatized if the Health and Social Care bill goes through. This means that instead of the NHS providing high quality health care for free on the basis of need – services will soon be given only to those who can afford them.
We must stop this bill from passing and protect our free health care.
We are calling for people to come out and stand up against this bill – to show the government that we will not allow them to privatize this great national service.
Join us outside the department of health in Whitehall on March the 17th and flood the streets with the sheer amount of people who care about free healthcare. The Government intend to vote the bill through on the 19th – let’s give them something to think about as they vote!
Everybody in this country has used the NHS at some point in their lives. If you have used the NHS then you agree with free healthcare.
Pass this facebook event along to everyone you know. Tell everybody you know what is happening to our NHS and that we can stop it. Let’s make this event HUGE. There is now also a protest before at virgin health on Oxford Street (http://www.facebook.com/events/255160124568190/) and an action leading on from this demo outside the department of health to a secret location - if you want to join in then follow the signal at the end of the demo (more info here: http://ukuncut.org.uk/actions/847).
We can make the government back down and drop the bill.
Get a large group together and book coaches down to London from wherever you are located. Bring friends, family, any political or social group you are part of. From writing letters to MPs, signing petitions, to civil disobedience – we must do everything we can to stop the bill!
Why the NHS must be saved:
- EVERYBODY DESERVES FREE HEALTHCARE
- A report last year found the NHS to be the second most cost-effective health system in the developed world.
- The NHS reached record satisfaction ratings in 2010.
This shows there is no need for this bill.
In short the bill will result in fewer services, more charges and exclusions. Also the government are refusing to publish their register of the risks the bill poses – this by itself is a warning of the dangers this bill could bring! For a good summary of the bill in its current form see here: http://www.allysonpollock.co.uk/administrator/components/com_article/attach/2012-03-09/Pollock_HouseOfLords_HSCB_StatementLibDem40Pts_09Mar12.pdf