National Health Action Party Election 2017


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It is time for the latest in a series of interviews with the

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smaller parties. The National health action party was founded in 2012

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buy-2-mac consultants who opposed an act which enacted wide-ranging

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reform in the NHS. It would start by repealing the social care act which

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would reverse the reforms including the removal of the retirement --

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requirement to tender a contract to the private sector. They will ensure

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that NHS funding increases by 4% every year in real terms. They would

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call for the abolition of prescription charges in England as

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is policy in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. They would

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introduce free social care and increase funding to meet the needs

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of tolerable elderly and disabled people. They want to safeguard

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collaboration with the EU on health issues and medical research. We are

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joined by the action party's Doctor Louise Irvin. It is standing in five

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seats in England. Why do we need your party? It started five years

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ago with the intention of fighting to defend the NHS a -- against cuts

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and privatisation. I feel that we needed more than ever. We've grown

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in support, we have a wide influence. I think we have in full

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and Labour Party policy. But it is a single issue party? It is not. We

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fight on all the broad principles of health, the education, environment,

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inequality, poverty. Which bits of the Labour Party manifesto have been

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written with you in mind? We are part of a broader movement which has

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moved Labour Party more towards, in the manifesto it talks about

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repealing the act, which we, as campaigners are going to campaign

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on. It has been very reluctant until now to address the issue of

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privatisation of the NHS. I welcome it but I feel we need people like

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our party and campaigners to help. You've got Louise to thank for the

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manifesto. It was under Labour that this started. For the first, I am

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pleased. Would you have done it without them? Yes. The party of the

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NHS of the Labour Party. We will put ?37 billion into the NHS to reduce

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the waiting list. We will put capital investment into the NHS, not

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by forcing hospitals to sell off land and assets. We will give

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hospitals the money to rebuild them. Would you rather see the Labour

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Party being elected than the Conservative Party. Yes as long as

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they stay true to their promises. Tony Blair promised to end the

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privatisation of the NHS and not go forward with PFI and they did the

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opposite in power. We cannot afford to completely trust what people say

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in their manifesto. When you say about the funding, your proposed

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funding will not meet the projected rate of growth if it kept up with

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GDP rates. You say the Labour Party is not going to keep pace with a

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growing elderly population. How would you find an increase in NHS

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funding of 4% in real terms every year. It is not a number we've

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picked out of the air. Good. This is what the OBR and other analysts say

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is the amount needed to meet the funding gap and maintain the quality

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of services and to meet growing demand. It is in keeping with the

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long-running average around other developed countries. I will not be

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part of the government and I will not be making detailed budgetary

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plans but what we will be doing is pushing government, who ever is in

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government, to meet that funding need and it could be done through

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taxation, in different ways, looking at tax avoidance, corporate tax,

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reducing bureaucracy in the NHS, investing in health and education.

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Do you accept that to meet the needs of a growing population you would

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need to look at funding a 4% in real terms in the NHS? I have a look at

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their manifesto and the problem is the aim is to have the average of

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most G-7 countries but most of them have insurance and contribution

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-based approach. We don't do that and are NHS is unique. We've

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invested more. Your answer is you would not do it. You've got to have

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a strong economy and the problem is all the wish lists, they are for the

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birds unless you have a strong economy. If you have a strong

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economy why could you not spend more? It is the only way you get

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revenue. A wish list is for the birds unless you deliver that.

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Is there no role for the private sector within the NHS?

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They could be a small role where there are gaps in

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You shouldn't structure the NHS around

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It is wasteful, it fragments and it is

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chaotic and it short-changes patients because it diverts money

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We would have an NHS which is substantially a

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public service and we want to bring legislation to reinstated as a

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public servers, more than just repealing the health and social care

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act, reversing all of the privatisation.

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We've heard about the fall in numbers of the police, 19,000, it

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has been reported as. You should never have cut the numbers of

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police. What we've done is protected counter-terrorism policing budgets.

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We funded and uplift and increase in the number of armed police. We are

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protecting overall police budgets in England and Wales. What we are also

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doing is ensuring the police and security services have the powers

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they need to be able to deal with the terrorists. So we've enhanced

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the powers available to them. Jeremy Corbyn has boasted that he has

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opposed every piece of anti-terrorist legislation since

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he's been in

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