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Health campaigners in Kent call on politicians and NHS bosses to reject the Health and Care Bill

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.

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