Our Principles

 

• We believe the NHS should be a safe, comprehensive, publicly funded, publicly delivered and publicly accountable, integrated healthcare system, committed to continuous improvement for all its patients and participants. This has been shown to be not just the fairest way to deliver healthcare but the most cost-efficient.

 

• We believe misguided and in some cases corrupt attempts to create a market within the NHS, and to syphon off public resources for private profit, has hugely increased costs and bureaucracy within the NHS.

 

• We believe the NHS is a public commitment to a fair society, not a personal insurance policy to be haggled over or “topped up” by out-of-pocket excess charges.

 

Our Wider Vision

 

A Fair Society:

 

We are committed to

 

• rejecting the soaring inequality created by 30 years' privatisation and corporation-led economic policies

• cracking down on tax avoidance and evasion by multinational corporations and the wealthiest in our society

• putting the British government back at the service of the British people on issues such as housing, employment and an efficient and compassionate welfare state.

 

A Democratic Society:

 

To defend and extend representation of the people at local, national and European level to ensure decisions are made in their interests, not in the interests of party politics, private profit or foreign investors.