Death certificate of the NHS has been issued

The National Health Action Party have today published today the death certificate of the National Health Service. They say the cause of death: "Health & Social Care Act 2012." And says the Contributory causes are: "Thatcherism, Orange Book liberalism, neoliberal doctrine and the failure of New Labour." The mock certificate (right) is issued by the NHA Party, which was founded last year by doctors and health care professionals seriously worried about the Coalition Government’s Health & Social Care Act which they say is "the quiet privatisation of the NHS."

From today, new legislation comes into force which compels GP commissioning groups to put services up for a bidding war with the private sector rather than allowing them to choose for themselves if they want to use publicly provided NHS services. The NHA party says these regulations mean private companies will cherry-pick profitable services leading to poorer patient care. There is now a crucial vote on these amended section 75 regulations in the House of Lords on April 24th.

NHA Party co-leader Dr Peedell said: "As the new legislation takes effect on April 1st 2013, it signals the end of the English National Health Service as we know it. We will have an English Health Service, not an NHS. To mark this momentous point in the history of the NHS, a mock death certificate of the NHS will be delivered to Nick Clegg’s constituency office, to raise public awareness of the role the Conservative party and the Liberal Democrats have played in dismantling and increasingly privatising our NHS, despite having no democratic mandate to this."