Joanna Adams at the People's March for the NHS
On Saturday September 6, 2014, around 30 campaigners for the NHS arrived in London after a three-week, 300-mile People's March from the NHS that started in Jarrow, in Tyne and Wear, on August 16. The campaigners -- from Darlington and led by the "Darlo Mums," a group of concerned mothers who had first conceived the protest -- arrived at Red Lion Square in Holborn at 2pm where they met up with thousands of other NHS supporters and then marched to Trafalgar Square for a rally. This photo shows Joanna Adams, one of the organisers of the Jarrow march, addressing the crowd.
On their website, the campaigners, who are calling for the repeal of the 2012 Health and Social Care Act (which opened up the NHS to ever-increasing privatisation), explain, "[W]e aim to make the public aware of what the coalition government has been doing to our NHS and what has been happening to our hospitals and health services. It’s really hard to passively watch the rapid dismantling, privatisation and destruction of the NHS. First we had the Health & Social Care Act, then Section 75 and more recently Clause 119 of the Care Bill. The Government have legislated to open the NHS to the open market. We believe every penny saved in the NHS should go back into improving and developing our NHS. We don’t want to see private companies operating in the NHS under the heading of ‘efficiency’ when we know they are accountable to their share holders, who are only interested in maximum profit before patient health care."
For the People's March for the NHS, see: 999callfornhs.org.uk/
For my article about the march, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2014/09/03/save-the-nhs-please-...
For my archive of articles about the struggle to save the NHS, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/category/save-the-nhs/
For my most interesting photos, see: www.flickriver.com/photos/andyworthington/popular-interes...
Joanna Adams at the People's March for the NHS
On Saturday September 6, 2014, around 30 campaigners for the NHS arrived in London after a three-week, 300-mile People's March from the NHS that started in Jarrow, in Tyne and Wear, on August 16. The campaigners -- from Darlington and led by the "Darlo Mums," a group of concerned mothers who had first conceived the protest -- arrived at Red Lion Square in Holborn at 2pm where they met up with thousands of other NHS supporters and then marched to Trafalgar Square for a rally. This photo shows Joanna Adams, one of the organisers of the Jarrow march, addressing the crowd.
On their website, the campaigners, who are calling for the repeal of the 2012 Health and Social Care Act (which opened up the NHS to ever-increasing privatisation), explain, "[W]e aim to make the public aware of what the coalition government has been doing to our NHS and what has been happening to our hospitals and health services. It’s really hard to passively watch the rapid dismantling, privatisation and destruction of the NHS. First we had the Health & Social Care Act, then Section 75 and more recently Clause 119 of the Care Bill. The Government have legislated to open the NHS to the open market. We believe every penny saved in the NHS should go back into improving and developing our NHS. We don’t want to see private companies operating in the NHS under the heading of ‘efficiency’ when we know they are accountable to their share holders, who are only interested in maximum profit before patient health care."
For the People's March for the NHS, see: 999callfornhs.org.uk/
For my article about the march, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2014/09/03/save-the-nhs-please-...
For my archive of articles about the struggle to save the NHS, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/category/save-the-nhs/
For my most interesting photos, see: www.flickriver.com/photos/andyworthington/popular-interes...