To: The minister for health

Let's Really Support OUR NURSES

I am asking everyone to show their support for our nurses when they strike in December.

Why is this important?

We could all come out with placards and saucepans in our highstreets, or where the nurses will be on their picket lines, or outside our MP’s offices. It could just be for your lunch hour. Best would be to take a day of work using your holiday time. You could have a placard stating that you have used your holiday time. Retired people like me could be out all day, with a portable seat, snacks and a flask.

We could all send an email to our MP’s and phone their office up every hour?
At the same time we could promote free training for nurses and other medical staff, on a contract where they have to work in “OUR NHS” for a set period of time to pay for the training, or repay the money.

Why is this important? It is because:

“OUR NHS” was the best thing that happened in the history of our world.

Without good health we have nothing. With good health we can work to provide for ourselves and our families.

Private health insurance is fine for the VERY RICH, the young and healthy. Once you become very ill, or have a life changing accident, or chronic illness the premiums will rise to be unaffordable.

If we lose “OUR NHS” people will lose their homes or die as they do in the USA, because they can’t afford to pay for their healthcare.

The backbone of “OUR NHS” is our nurses. We all supported them by banging pans in the lockdown, when they worked so hard without proper PPE They are overworked and underpaid. Yet without them our lives will suffer.