All the evidence shows that the NHS in England is being fragmented and dismantled. That really only a change to the law can stop the damage. Now more than ever. And there is an answer – the proposed NHS (Reinstatement) Bill that aims to return the NHS to full public ownership, something destroyed by the Coalition Government’s 2012 Health & Social Care Act that enforced a commercialised model throughout the NHS.

And we now face the added threat of the current Government that is prepared to offer up access to the NHS to American private health care companies, as a bargaining chip in securing a UK – US trade deal, a deal made by Theresa May and Donald Trump.

In response, Protect Our NHS Bristol is stepping up its campaign for an NHS that works for people, not for profit – publicly-owned, publicly-funded, and publicly-run. We believe that campaigning to reinstate that founding vision is now critical.