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# NHS campaign guide - Restore the duty to secure a comprehensive health service in England
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/nhs-campaign-guide-restore-duty-to-secure-comprehensive-health-service-in-england/
- Published: 2013-12-10T12:12:33.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-23T00:13:03.000Z
- Description: The Health & Social Care Act abolished the Secretary of State's duty to secure a comprehensive health service, for the first time since 1948. We need it back. One of OurNHS's key NHS campaigns.
- Author: OurNHS
- Tags: Out of our hands, #Migrated, Resources , Ministerial accountability, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 16:46, #appended-excerpt

[‘Why we need a political campaign to restore the NHS’](https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/allyson-pollock-david-price/why-we-need-political-campaign-to-reinstate-nhs-in-england) \- we must urgently legislate to restore the Secretary of State’s duty to secure a comprehensive health service, writes Professor Allyson Pollock.

Ed Miliband tells the Mirror [why ](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ed-miliband-writes-daily-mirror-2017513?ref=opendemocracy.net)scrapping the Secretary of State's duty is so damaging, and suggests Labour would restore this duty.

Read more about the proposed ‘NHS Re-instatement bill’ [here](https://www.opendemocracy.net/freeform-tags/re-instatement-bill) or see the links on the right.

See other campaigning tips on our 'Resources - Campaign tools' page [here](https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/ournhs/resources-practical-tools-for-nhs-campaigners).

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The Health & Social Care Act abolished the Secretary of State's duty to secure a comprehensive health service, for the first time since 1948\. We need it back. One of OurNHS's [key NHS campaigns](https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/ournhs/key-nhs-campaigns).