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Health campaigners and MPs to protest against the Health and Care Bill
NHS workers from hospitals across the capital during a socially distanced protest outside Downing Street, London, in January 2021
Parliamentary reporter @TrinderMatt
MPS will join health campaigners outside Parliament tomorrow to condemn the Tory government’s widely criticised NHS reforms.
Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth and Green MP Caroline Lucas will attend the protest organised by campaign group Keep Our NHS Public (KONP) to call for the Health and Care Bill to be scrapped as it receives its second reading in the Commons.
They are warning that the legislation would see a major top-down reorganisation of the health service, resulting in a loss of local control and the possibility of a new wave of lucrative NHS contracts being awarded without competition to private companies.
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