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OUR HEALTH SERVICE NOT FOR SALE – MARCH TO SAVE THE NHS
Tuesday 17 May 5.30pm
UCH, Gower St, WC1
(Euston/Euston Sq/Warren St) to Whitehall
This is a crucial moment for the battle to defend the NHS. Andrew Lansley looks incrreasingly beleagured as the opposition to his plans grows from all sides. The government claim to be listening while they try to stick to their plans, and every day more health cuts are announced. We can make a real difference if we mobilise everyone who cares about the NHS to make a stand.
SPONSOR THE MARCH
Download a PDF of the postcard and a petition to defend the NHS. See below for the impressive list of sponsors in just a few days and the list of meetings and events across London. Please let us know if you or other organisations in your area want to add their names which will be added to a future leaflet.
Download a letter from Wendy Savage, Frank Dobson and Unite inviting trade unions, anti-cuts groups, NHS campaigns, London MPs and others to back the march.
COLLECT POSTCARDS
We don’t want anyone to be prevented from organising by finance, but the cards have cost just over £10 for 1000 so we need to cover our costs through payments and donations.
MAKE A DONATION
Contributions to cost of leaflets to ‘Camden Keep Our NHS Public’ c/o 32 Savernake Road, London NW3 2JP. Organise a fund drive in your area for your local campaign and Keep Our NHS Public nationally.
Supported by Keep Our NHS Public; Frank Dobson MP; Unite Health Sector National Committee; Health Workers Network; NHS Direct Action; John Cryer MP; Jim Dowd MP; Mike Marqusee Barts Hospital patient; Steve Hack Southwark Speech & Language Therapists; Steve Hedley London Region RMT; Cliff Snaith London Region UCU; NHS Consultants’ Association; Ron Singer MPU-Unite; BMA Tower Hamlets Division; Unison Homerton Hospital; Unite SE London Medical Branch; Wendy Savage Keep Our NHS Public; Dr Jacky Davis BMS Council member; John Lister London Health Emergency; Prof Harry Keen NHS Support Federation; Save Chase Farm Campaign Group; Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS Public; Tower Hamlets HOOPS; John McLoughlin Tower Hamlets Unison; Defend Whittington Hospital Coalition; Islington HOOPS; Lambeth SOS; Lewisham Keep Our NHS Public; Lewisham Right To Work; Bloomsbury Fightback; Sandy Nichol SOAS Unison; LE 1/1085 Unite branch; London Magazine Branch NUJ; South West London Keep Our NHS Public; Waltham Forest Keep Our NHS Public; Brent Fightback; Pete Firmin Brent Trades Council; Ealing Alliance for Public Services; Janet Maiden UCLH Unison; Camden Keep Our NHS Public; George Binette/Phoebe Watkins Camden United Against Cuts; Hackney TUC; Central London Right to Work ; Defend Haringey Health Services; Haringey Trades Council; Newham Against the Cuts; Dr Sebastian Kraemer Whittington Hospital; Dr Jonathon Tomlinson GP; Kambiz Boomla City & E London Local Medical Co; Dr Robert McGibbon FRCGP; Dr Anna Livingstone; Dr Peter Draper Health Policy Consultant; Huw Davies Greater London Socialist Health Association.
(Names in personal capacity)
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The Pressure Needs to be Intensified and the Momentum Maintained
to Save The National Health Service
Equally to Increase NHS Spending when they are Needed
We Need More than One March to Save the National Health Service
We Need Marches before the 17th of May as Well
People are too Static and Complacent at Large as Regards the General
Public in this Country
The National Health Service Future is Better Assured under a Decent
Government other than this Ivory Tower Millionaires Regime and the
Virus of ” Free Market ” Capitalism which has Wrecked the Royal Mail
Post Office the Railways and the Phone Service
Nationalisation of Services and Industry Not Privitisation
Redistribution of Wealth from Rich to Poor to Help Fund the National
Health Service
after the march.. the next national day of action to save the NHS will be UK Uncut’s ‘Emergency Operation’ 28MAY
see: http://www.ukuncut.org.uk
“The NHS will last as long as there are folk left to fight for it.”
– Nye Bevan, founder of the NHS
“Andrew Lansley. Greedy Andrew Lansley. Tosser.”
– MC NxtGen
This is an emergency. The welfare state is in peril. Under the guise of ‘efficiency’ and ‘reform’, this government is plotting to cut the NHS and sell off what’s left. Andrew Lansley has claimed the government is in a ‘listening exercise’ about the proposed NHS ‘reforms’. But despite widespread outcry from doctors, nurses and the public the government isn’t listening to anyone apart from private healthcare lobbyists.
Let’s make Lansley listen. We want to keep our healthy NHS and fix our broken banking system. Whilst the NHS is being dismantled, the banks that caused this crisis in the first place have been left untouched. Reckless gambling, obscene bonuses and a global financial crisis are symptoms of a disease that requires a drastic intervention.
The banks are due a check-up. On Saturday May 28th, join UK Uncut’s Emergency Operation and transform your local high street bank into a hospital. Tell the government to leave our NHS alone; it’s the banks that are sick.
Turn HSBC into a hospital, fill Natwest with nurses, get bandaged in Barclays and operate in RBS. As usual, it’s up to you to organise an action in your area – so talk to your friends, your local union branch and anti-cuts group and then list an action on our website. All the resources you’ll need will be on our website, including a flyer to tell the public about the NHS emergency. Get organised, get creative and let’s make Lansley listen: leave our NHS alone and cut benefits to bankers.
See you on the high streets.