Joint affiliates meeting: Health Campaigns Together & Keep Our NHS Public

This NHS anniversary weekend just past, we not only marked the moment with successful nationwide and online events, giving an often-poignant response to the Government’s continued mishandling of the current pandemic. We also launched our ‘2020 Vision’ for the NHS.

The ‘Rescue Plan’, written by John Lister, sets out our vision to rebuild health and social care starting now.

The Covid-19 global pandemic has revealed – or at least, laid bare, many inadequacies, inequalities and injustices in the way our society is run, with perhaps the clearest example coming from the shockingly high death toll in BME communities, who are disproportionately represented in many of the lowest-paid and most hazardous front line jobs.

But the crisis has also shown in detail much of what Health Campaigns Together, Keep Our NHS Public and other NHS activists have been saying all along, in many cases for years before the coronavirus outbreak; that the NHS is dangerously underfunded, understaffed and that if we are to save our NHS from total ruination by the current Government, we must win the arguments that privatisation is harmful for the NHS – both for its staff (especially those outsourced to private companies working for the NHS) and dangerous, even occasionally lethal, for its patients.

That’s why we have called a joint Health Campaigns Together and Keep Our NHS Public affiliates meeting, to work closely together to hone our 2020 Vision, to make sure we have the best rescue plan possible and pool our resources to put it into practice. Delegates can attend from organisations affiliated to either organisation.

You can read the full ‘Rescue Plan’ in its current draft here: https://healthcampaignstogether.com/2020Vision.php

And a summary on the Keep Our NHS Public website here: https://keepournhspublic.com/nhs-2020-vision/