London’s Green MEP Jean Lambert has called for an “adequately-funded publicly-provided NHS” as protesters march through East London to mark 66 years of the health service.
The Green Party have released an animated film to highlight the encroaching privatisation of the NHS by successive Conservative and Labour governments
Today’s “Save our Surgeries” rally was called to highlight the pressure GP surgeries are currently facing after the latest Coalition Government reforms. Keep Our NHS Public campaigners argue that the recent withdrawal of the “minimum practice income guarantee” means that surgeries in more deprived areas will be penalised, and even threatened with bankruptcy:
“Good quality surgeries (who spend the most, employing more staff to provide the best possible service to patients) will be the first to go. This will open the door for more GP surgeries run by large private firms on the cheap. “
“The government is targeting poor areas to push it’s agenda of increasing privatisation of the health service.”
London’s Green MEP Jean Lambert said: “This Government promised to defend the NHS – but the reforms it has introduced have done exactly the opposite.
“Greens believe in an adequately-funded publicly-provided NHS, run in the interests of people – not profits.”