Category Archives: Health

The right thing to do for the NHS is to withdraw the bill

Here’s the speech I made in the NHS debate in Gateshead on Sunday morning. I’ve also added some notes about the source of each of the points.

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Challenging our local Conservative MP on the NHS

Our local MP is on the Health & Social Welfare Bill Committee that is driving through the stealth privatisation of the NHS. To date, he has done nothing to stop it. Hence this letter to the Hampshire Chronicle.

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A weekend well spent…

It was nice to read the following words in the Independent on Sunday today:

One of the few unambiguously positive contributions to the coalition was made by the Lib Dem spring conference yesterday, when it voted against the reorganisation of the health service being driven through by Andrew Lansley, the Conservative Health Secretary.

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Winchester Lib Dem NHS Amendment goes through

Good news from Lib Dem conference. The Winchester Lib Dem-backed motion on the coalition’s NHS plans was carried overwhelmingly.

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Winchester Liberal Democrats take leading role in ‘rebellion’ against coalition NHS policy

Andrew Lansley, the Conservative Secretary of State for Health, is making bland promises while putting in place policies which could wreck the NHS as we know it. It’s vital that these plans are changed.

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