We Own IT, our fellow campaign group, has launched its campaign to demand that all general election candidates pledge to fight for our NHS if elected. Here’s how you can start taking action for the NHS with an email today.
| Today – Thursday 8th February – we’ve JUST launched Pledge for the NHS.The campaign has a simple goal: to mobilise tens of thousands of people across the UK to demand all general election candidates commit to stand up for our NHS if elected.YOU can have a big impact if everyone of us takes JUST A FEW MINUTES to do one small action.Can you click the button below now to send our letter to your local candidates? |
| The last 14 years have been the worst years of underfunding, understaffing and privatisation in our NHS’s history.You now have to travel miles to get an NHS dentist – if you can even get one.It is not an exaggeration to say that our NHS might not survive another 5 years of the same policies.But here is the good news: there are tens of thousands of people up and down Britain JUST LIKE YOU – including some of the country’s biggest celebrities – who are prepared to fight for our NHS.As individuals politicians can ignore us, but together, they will be forced to listen to us. Can you take 2 minutes right now to send our letter to your local candidates? |
| Wherever you live in the UK, THIS IS YOUR FIGHT.In England, the prime minister has just had to admit that he failed to fix the waiting lists crisis, despite previously saying the private sector would fix it.In Northern Ireland, GPs are so cash strapped they are being forced to charge some patients £75 for an appointment.In Scotland, private health firms, many of whom donated to UK politicians, are charging Scots anywhere from £79 to £250 to be seen for just 15 minutes.In Wales, the budget for your NHS was £900 million less in real terms in 2023 than the UK government promised in order to help make sure people can see the doctor.The decisions made by the UK government affects the NHS in all four nations.Right now candidates vying to get into parliament are hearing from the well-funded private healthcare lobby. You can show them that organised people is stronger than organised money. |
| You can make a big splash today by making sure tens of thousands of emails are sent to candidates across the country. Please send the letter now and ask your friends and family to do the same. |
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