The NHS ‘should be protected as part of Trade Bill’

Letter from: Ms. J Gudgeon, West Sussex Unison Retired Members,Durrington Hill, Worthing
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With Parliament returned last week in a virtual format, MPs should be laser-focused on making sure we survive the crisis and come out stronger the other side.

This includes making sure our NHS is strong and resilient to future crises.

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I was shocked to find out that the recently published Trade Bill does not include protection for our NHS from trade deals, even though Boris Johnson promised that the NHS wouldn’t be for sale.

How insulting to the sacrifices that we all, but especially NHS staff, have made, that instead of a pay rise and a stronger NHS, we could get more US companies sucking profit from our ill-health and misery. But it’s not too late to put in place strong protection for our NHS.

I call on Peter Bottomley and the other West Sussex MPs to commit to amending the Trade Bill so that our health service cannot be opened up to more privatisation through trade deals.

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