> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.opendemocracy.net/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Labour must really commit to rebuilding the NHS - add your voice - URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-must-really-commit-to-rebuilding-nhs-add-your-voice/ - Published: 2014-09-18T15:09:44.000Z - Updated: 2026-04-23T00:14:17.000Z - Description: In the run up to the lobby of Labour Party conference in Manchester on 21 September campaigners are joining together to call on Labour to clearly commit to saving the NHS. Please add your or your organisation’s name by adding in the comments below or by emailing nhsliaison@yahoo.co.uk, and circula - Author: Jill Mountfield - Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 16:46, #appended-excerpt We are campaigning for a clear commitment from the Labour Party to saving the National Health Service. We want to stop and reverse privatisation, and rebuild the NHS as a comprehensive public service providing for all on the basis of need – not a logo above a marketplace of profit-making companies. We welcome Labour’s pledge to repeal the Health and Social Care Act and its key “competition regulations” promoting marketisation – and to restore the ministerial duty to provide national health services. We also welcome Andy Burnham’s commitment that the NHS must be protected from international “free trade” agreements. But to rebuild the NHS we need more. We need a major drive to undo the damage done by the Act, and before that by years of policies shifting the NHS towards a market system, like the obscenely wasteful “internal market”, widespread privatisation and outsourcing, and fragmentation into competing units. We want a fight to bring contracts already in the hands of private companies back into the NHS. We want an end to the Private Finance Initiative and liberation from crushing PFI debts. We want an end to cash-driven closures, reversal of cuts and adequate funding to rebuild the NHS as a genuine public service. Such policies are necessary to restore a comprehensive NHS providing a top quality health service for all, as well as decent terms and conditions for its workers. We support a Living Wage and a mandatory minimum staffing ratio of one nurse to every four patients. We want reversal of the Coalition’s attacks on migrants’ access to the NHS. We want integration of health and social care to mean that social care becomes a public service. We are supporting the lobby of Labour Party conference on 21 September, and want to build an ongoing alliance of NHS campaigners, Labour Party activists and trade unions/trade unionists to fight for these goals. Want to add your name to this statement? Please add your or your organisation’s name by adding in the comments below or by emailing [nhsliaison@yahoo.co.uk](mailto:nhsliaison@yahoo.co.uk), and circulate widely. Regular updates to the list of signatories are [here](http://labournhslobby.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/statement?ref=opendemocracy.net). Already signed by organisations and individuals including: People’s March for the NHS 999 call for the NHS (Darlo mums) Wendy Savage, Keep Our NHS Public President Kate Osamor, NHS Worker, Unite activist and Labour Party national executive-elect Dr Louise Irvine, Chair of Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign Colin Standfield, on behalf of Ealing Hospital SOS Hackney Keep Our NHS Public Leeds Keep Our NHS Public Dr David Wrigley, GP Carnforth in Lancashire, British Medical Association Council Anita Downs, nurse and Unite the Union secretary at Lewisham Hospital, SLH steering committee Jill Mountford, SLH steering committee John McDonnell MP Dr Jacky Davis, NHS Consultants’ Association co-chair Ron Singer, Medical Practioners Union (Unite) chair Carol Ackroyd, Hackney KONP Caroline Molloy, OurNHS openDemocracy editor Pete Radcliff, Broxtowe Constituency Labour Party secretary Pat Smith, Hull North CLP secretary Pete Campbell, junior doctor, Newcastle Doreen Illingworth, Leeds North West CLP Chris Marks, PCS union North West Regional Organiser Marsha Jane Thompson, Havering Unison secretary and LRC Vice Chair Pia Feig, Trafford KONP and Unison Manchester Community and Mental Health Barbara Iqbal, Trafford KONP and Unison Sarah Barratt, Trafford KONP Nik Barstow, Trafford KONP, Unite and Stretford and Urmston CLP Tom Barstow, Trafford KONP, PCS and Stretford and Urmston CLP Maggie Barker, Trafford KONP and Unison Salford University Branch Ron Mendel, Northampton Reclaim Our NHS chair and Northampton Trades Council President Professor Alwyn Smith Omar Raii, University College London Union External Affairs and Campaigns Officer Professor Robert Moore, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, The University of Liverpool Michael Coleman, Professor Epidemiology and Vital Statistics, Cancer Research UK Cancer Survival Group, Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Daniel Nichols, Romford CLP chair Daniel Cooper, National Union of Students National Executive Committee Lynne Roper, paramedic, Okehampton, Northampton Ria Bernard, London Young Labour Campaigns Officer Liam McNulty, London Young Labour Campaigns Officer Hannah Thompson, London Young Labour committee Dan Young, Chair, London Young Labour Gavin Sibthorpe, London Young Labour Policy Officer Caroline Hill, Young Labour committee Trade Union Officer Conrad Landin, Young Labour committee Eastern Representative Rida Vaquas, Young Labour committee, Under 19’s Officer Max Shanly, Young Labour committee, South East Representative Janet Shapiro, Hornsey and Wood Green Labour Party, Defend Haringey Health Services Coalition. Dr Alex Scott-Samuel, joint chair, Politics of Health Group Dr Mary Edmondson, London Dr Pam Martin, London Dr Judith Ibison, GP and senior lecturer Dr Jack Czauderna, Retired GP and GPwSI in CFS/ME, Sheffield Save Our NHS Dr Maureen O’Leary, Retired Consultant Psychiatrist, Sheffield Save Our NHS Dr Helen Groom, Keep Our NHS Public North East Dr Aneez Esmail, Associate Vice-President, Social Responsibility and Equality & Diversity, Manchester University Martin Manasse, Keep Our NHS Public North East Annie Moelwyn-Hughes Val Walsh, Liverpool Teresa Williamson Gordon Nardell, former Labour councillor Judith Varley, Liverpool University Suresh Chauhan, Leicester Dr Sue Povall, Liverpool University Cam Stocks Robert MacGibbon, BMA, Leiston Branch Labour Party deputy chair Jilla Burgess-Allen, Public Health Specialty Registrar, Public Health, Derby Council In the run up to the [lobby of Labour Party conference ](https://www.facebook.com/events/598141010307347/)in Manchester on 21 September campaigners are joining together to call on Labour to clearly commit to saving the NHS. Please add your or your organisation’s name by adding in the comments below or by emailing [nhsliaison@yahoo.co.uk](mailto:nhsliaison@yahoo.co.uk), and circulate widely.