5:01:03 > 5:01:09This government has decided to impose austerity on health care,
5:01:09 > 5:01:11and for seven years now,
5:01:11 > 5:01:15the NHS has been underfunded by over 3% per year.
5:01:15 > 5:01:22So since 2010, the NHS is now over 20% underfunded,
5:01:22 > 5:01:24and by 2020, the plan is
5:01:24 > 5:01:29that it would be actually over 30% underfunded.
5:01:29 > 5:01:34The stresses are now showing, with the worst A&E waits for ten years,
5:01:34 > 5:01:36cancer waits going up,
5:01:36 > 5:01:40elective waiting lists are nearly four million
5:01:40 > 5:01:44and projected to be five million in a year's time.
5:01:44 > 5:01:47It is just dangerous now.
5:01:47 > 5:01:5184% of my colleagues in a survey last year said
5:01:51 > 5:01:54that their ability to provide safe patient care
5:01:54 > 5:01:56was undermined by their workload.
5:01:56 > 5:02:00We end up in one of the biggest children's hospitals
5:02:00 > 5:02:03in the UK and in Europe having no beds at all
5:02:03 > 5:02:05for children who are in A&E.
5:02:05 > 5:02:12We had the Red Cross in January 2017 in England
5:02:12 > 5:02:16declaring that the NHS was a humanitarian crisis.
5:02:16 > 5:02:18Theresa May stood up and said there's nothing wrong.
5:02:18 > 5:02:21Jeremy Hunt stood up and said nothing's going on.
5:02:21 > 5:02:22It is a lie.
5:02:22 > 5:02:26I think the underfunding of the NHS is a deliberate policy,
5:02:26 > 5:02:29and I think it goes hand in hand
5:02:29 > 5:02:31with the agenda to privatise the NHS.
5:02:31 > 5:02:36Already, the majority of NHS contracts being awarded
5:02:36 > 5:02:38are going to the private sector.
5:02:38 > 5:02:41Already, we're spending more and more public money
5:02:41 > 5:02:42on the private sector.
5:02:42 > 5:02:44Whatever it is you believe in,
5:02:44 > 5:02:47whether it's education, NHS,
5:02:47 > 5:02:50you need to believe that these are going to go.
5:02:50 > 5:02:53Privatisation is about making money.
5:02:53 > 5:02:56That's what the NHS is going to be about.
5:02:56 > 5:02:59This election is life and death for the National Health Service.
5:03:01 > 5:03:05I think it's actually at a precipice,
5:03:05 > 5:03:07and if we can remove the current government,
5:03:07 > 5:03:09with its attitude of contempt
5:03:09 > 5:03:11and lack of respect for the health service,
5:03:11 > 5:03:13and replace it with a government
5:03:13 > 5:03:17that believes once again in health care as a public service,
5:03:17 > 5:03:19we will have done our children proud.
5:03:21 > 5:03:26Look at the pictures that we've seen of people on trolleys in A&E,
5:03:26 > 5:03:28waiting to be seen or waiting to be admitted,
5:03:28 > 5:03:31the picture in January of a two-year-old child
5:03:31 > 5:03:34waiting for five hours, who may have meningitis,
5:03:34 > 5:03:39but five hours for an assessment to know whether they're ill or not,
5:03:39 > 5:03:43and lying on a home-made couch,
5:03:43 > 5:03:47lying on two chairs in their A&E until they were seen.
5:03:47 > 5:03:52Remember those images and think, "Is this good enough?"
5:03:52 > 5:03:54And actually, please do not vote Conservative.
5:03:58 > 5:04:02As a paediatrician, the thing that hurts me most is the story such as
5:04:02 > 5:04:08a child with severe mental health problems needing admission
5:04:08 > 5:04:12in England, and the nearest hospital bed was in Scotland.
5:04:12 > 5:04:18And the parents had a 400-mile round trip to see their ill child.
5:04:18 > 5:04:21I've seen...
5:04:21 > 5:04:23< It's OK.
5:04:26 > 5:04:27< It's OK, it's OK.
5:04:30 > 5:04:33We know we live in a land with riches for all.
5:04:33 > 5:04:36We know the health visitor and firefighter contribute no less
5:04:36 > 5:04:40than the stockbroker and merchant banker.
5:04:40 > 5:04:44We know there is no chief executive or shareholder value
5:04:44 > 5:04:45without the worker.
5:04:45 > 5:04:48We know that wealth, privilege and power
5:04:48 > 5:04:51are carved up in an obscene fashion.
5:04:51 > 5:04:52We have had enough.
5:04:52 > 5:04:56We demand health, work, home,
5:04:56 > 5:05:01education and care in time of need, not subject to grand profiteering,
5:05:01 > 5:05:05but planned, transparent, executed in efficient fashion
5:05:05 > 5:05:10under democratic control, using our intelligence and imagination.
5:05:10 > 5:05:13We demand the full fruits of our labour.
5:05:13 > 5:05:16We demand the right to contribute
5:05:16 > 5:05:19and recognise the obligation to share.
5:05:19 > 5:05:23Power concedes nothing without demand.
5:05:23 > 5:05:25It never did and it never will.
5:05:25 > 5:05:28We have one short, precious life.
5:05:28 > 5:05:32We demand the chance to be all that we can.