As grassroots campaigners, we care about the NHS and we know that our friends, families and the general public are fast becoming aware of the profit-seeking private companies operating behind the blue logo that we all trust as a standard of excellence, equality and world class care.
Our NHS has been betrayed by the political process over the last 25 years, introducing crippling Private Finance Initiative (PFI) debt, handing over public buildings to private developers, endangering staff and patients through unsafe and unfair contracts, downgrading medical training standards and allowing American health insurance industry ethics to be ingrained in our NHS culture. No party has clean hands in this process.
The move in 1948 to create the National Health Service was a brave, visionary political decision and the NHS remains the most important political issue affecting the public and generations of voters of the future.
