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HEALTH campaigners in Kent have written to politicians and NHS bosses demanding that they reject the Tories’ NHS Health and Care Bill.
In an open letter, Save Our NHS in Kent said that the Bill threatens to totally undermine the NHS as a comprehensive universal public service and will facilitate its privatisation.
Carly Jeffrey of the campaign said: “The Bill has been steered through the House of Lords by a man who has a track record of lobbying for free market organisations who question whether the NHS should exist.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
