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OVER 400 NHS and public health professionals signed an open letter to all MPs today calling for the NHS to be protected from trade deals.
Among the supporters are senior and high-profile figures from the health service, publishing and academia, including the Lancet editor Richard Horton and the Faculty of Public Health president Professor Maggie Rae.
The letter comes as Parliament is to debate the latest stage of the Trade Bill on Monday.
Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
