Disability campaigner standing in Rotherham local elections to save the NHS -------------------------------------------------------------------- The National Health Action Party, the fast growing new political party campaigning against the privatisation of the NHS, has announced it’s fielding a candidate in the upcoming local council elections in Rotherham. Naveen Judah, Chair of the Rotherham Disability Network and respected member of the local community, will stand for the NHA Party in the towns Sitwell ward. Mr Judah, an accountant with extensive experience in the public, private and voluntary sectors said: I want to represent constituents and fight for whats in their best interests, not whats in the interests of one of the big and stifling conventional political parties. The NHS is dear to me and thousands of people in Sitwell. The National Health Action Party is the only party that will protect and uphold its public service founding principles. As a British institution and one of the most revered health care systems in the world, I am furious at this governments creeping privatisation, cuts and dismantling of the NHS. It is one of our countrys last remaining crown jewels and I will battle to protect and improve its services for local people. The National Health Action Party was launched at the end of 2012 by doctors and health care workers who were seriously concerned at the impact the government’s massive top-down NHS reorganisation. They say this has wasted £4 billion of taxpayers’ money and led to the closure of A&E departments and local hospitals, massive understaffing of doctors and nurses, harmful rationing of care and the NHS 111 shambles. They say there’s clear evidence that the privatisation of the NHS is accelerating under this government, with on just one day last week, £1.2bn of contracts being put out to tender. Since last April, 70% of deals have gone to non-NHS, commercial companies. The NHA Party, which has over forty thousand twitter followers, surpassing UKIP, is led by the former MP for Wyre Forest Dr Richard Taylor, who won at two general elections campaigning on a local hospital issue, and the cancer specialist Dr Clive Peedell, who announced last week he’ll be challenging David Cameron in Witney in 2015.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:00:00 +0000
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