This banner sums up how I feel about the government’s dodgy plans to embark on a policy of mass privatisation for the NHS.
We went along to a big protest on Westminster Bridge in central London against the changes proposed in the Health and Social Care bill – a bill which featured in neither the Tories or the LibDem’s manifestos.
Here’s some photos from the action:
Loads more photos here: Block the Bridge protest
Discuss this action on our bulletin boards
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Save the NHS protest, Department of Health, London
NHS blood-spilling direct action at Charing Cross – photos
Parliament student protest, 9th Dec 2010 – photos
Occupy the Stock Exchange London protest. Photos and police statement
Photos from the Occupy London protest at St Paul’s, central London
Save our libraries protest outside Brixton Library, Feb 5th 2011
Against the Cuts! Protest outside Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton – photos
The Shard, London Bridge, nears completion
Ed, not sure if you were wanting to start a discussion about this, but it’s not as though the current system is so fantastic compared with that of other first world countries. Look at the waiting lists, the overworked GPs, the poor care for the elderly in hospital.
I’ve no desire to follow America (even americans are trying to change their system) but as long as health care remains free at the point of use I think we need to try and change things.
I’m not sure if I expressed myself very well there- I meant to say ‘as long as health care remains free for everyone at the point of use, we need to be open to reforms to the NHS’