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To: All MPs
Support the 2015 NHS Reinstatement Bill on 11th March - Petition now closed 12 March 2016
Thank you to everyone who's signed this petition about the 2015 NHS Bill. This petition is now closed, if you want to support the next round of the NHS Reinstatement Bill (and I hope you do) please go to this current petition https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/support-the-nhs-reinstatement-bill-to-bring-back-our-nhs
Support the cross-party 2015 NHS Reinstatement Bill when Caroline Lucas MP tables it as a Private Members' Bill on 11th March, along with a cross party group of MPs.
Please ask your MP to do this - here is where to find your MP's contact details: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mps/
Why is this important?
The NHS is being taken apart. The Health and Social Care Act 2012 abolished the legal duty on the government to provide key NHS services in England, and took marketisation to a new level.
We need a law to reinstate that legal duty, stop marketisation and privatisation, and to re-establish accountable public bodies. Without a law, the process now rapidly underway will continue.
This is why barrister Peter Roderick and public health Professor Allyson Pollock drafted a NHS Reinstatement Bill in August 2014. This Bill was put out for consultation, and dozens of individuals and organisations responded. The consultation on the proposed NHS Reinstatement Bill ended in December 2014.
Revised to take account of the consultation results, the Bill proposes to fully restore the NHS as an accountable public service by:
-reinstating the government's duty to provide a comprehensive universal health service,
-reversing 25 years of marketization in the NHS by abolishing the purchaser-provider split,
-ending contracting,
-making the NHS TTIP-proof and
-re-establishing public bodies and public services accountable to local communities.
You can find out more about the bill here: http://www.nhsbill2015.org/nhs-reinstatement-bill-new-version-published/.
