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HEALTH campaigners have pledged the “fight of their lives” against any trade deal with US President Donald Trump that threatens the National Health Service as a publicly owned body.
A coalition of groups led by Keep Our NHS Public and We Own It launched a campaign today which will call on the government to pass new legislation to protect the NHS from privatisation in post-Brexit trade deals.
Last week both Boris Johnson and International Trade Secretary Liz Truss ruled out the privatisation of the NHS in any US-UK trade deal.
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
When privatisation is already so deeply embedded in the NHS, we can’t just blindly argue for ‘more funding’ to solve its problems, explain ESTHER GILES, NICO CSERGO, BRIAN GIBBONS and RATHI GUHADASAN