Our Statement on the NHS

By THE PEACE PARTY

Not for profit . . . the health of the public may be more important than investor's balances

The Peace Party shares the concerns of all those who have emailed us recently on the subject of the NHS.

It has always been the Peace Party’s view that the NHS should be publicly and properly funded, and we are alarmed by the measures that are currently being implemented to privatise it.

We believe that health provision must be available free of charge in any civilised society. This principle was until recently recognised in the Secretary of State’s ‘duty to provide or secure a comprehensive health service’.

We deplore the removal of this duty in the Health and Social Care Act, a blatant breach of a principle that has always had widespread public support, and we strongly support moves to reinstate it.

We applaud MPs who have tabled the NHS Bill, and all those who have campaigned and are continuing to campaign for an NHS that can provide excellent care while remaining entirely state-funded.
Indeed, Peace Party members are actively involved in some of these campaigns.

The government must be made to realise that it does not own the NHS – it is owned by the people – and has no right to sell it off to the highest bidder. 

We also recognise that it was a previous administration that initiated the PFI arrangements that have already diverted vast amounts of money from the NHS into the private secto.

We will press the next government, whatever its party (or parties), to see the NHS as a service that must remain permanently and wholly in the public realm.

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