8/20/2019 NHS Bill Leaflet Calderdale

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THE NHS (REINSTATEMENT) BILL

WILL PUT IT BACK TOGETHERPlease ask your MP to vote for this cross-party Private

Members’ Bill in the House of Commons on 11 March. You

can find a template letter/email to adapt here: https://

goo.gl/4yVoI7

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What The Bill Does

The 2016 NHS (Reinstatement) Bill will restore the NHS to acomprehensive, universal health service - fully publicly owned,

funded and run - that the Secretary of State has a duty toprovide, and that is free at the point of use.

It will put the NHS back together after 3 decades of increasingprivatisation: David Cameron has admitted his Coalitiongovernment’s stealth - privatising Health and Social Care Act2012 was a mistake.

84% of the public want a publicly owned, publicly run NHS.

It will end the huge waste of money on commercialtendering and contracting that has built up in theNHS over the last 3 decades.

The most conservative estimate is that the Bill will put at least£4.5bn/year back into patient care, after stopping this waste.

It would fill the projected £22bn NHS funding gap by 2020/21;this funding shortage is the reason for proposed cuts to ourhospital services - including the closure of Huddersfield A&E.

The hospital services cuts would endanger patient safety inboth Calderdale & Kirklees. Higher death rates are associatedwith increased distances to A&E - AND inpatient death ratesrise in hospitals that retain their A&E after a nearby hospitalloses theirs.

PLEASE ASK YOUR MP TO VOTE FOR THE NHSBILL ON 11 MARCH!

Published by Jenny Shepherd, 19 Unity Street, HX7 8HQ