The National Health Action Party is backing a Newark Hospital campaigner running in next week’s by-election. Paul Baggaley, currently a Newark local councillor and the driving force behind the Say Yes to Newark Hospital, is standing as an Independent in the Newark by-election. Dr Clive Peedell, co-leader of the National Health Action Party said: “The public are rightly concerned about loss of local services including the dangerous downgrading of hospital provision under this Government. Newark offers a clear example of the damaging effects of the Coalition Government’s NHS demolition. “We support Paul and his fellow local hospital campaigners in their fight to retain and restore high quality local healthcare services. The people of Newark should get behind him to send a strong message to Government that downgrading of local hospitals is dangerous, unnecessary, & driven by an austerity agenda rather than what’s best for local people.” Paul Baggaley said: “We are witnessing a gradual privatisation of the NHS which is creating a system which is unfair, wasteful and unsafe. A system that puts cash before care. The NHA Party is fundamentally opposed to what’s happening to our health service and that’s why I support their aims and am delighted they are backing my campaign.” For the past four years Paul Baggaley has been one of the driving forces behind the Say Yes to Newark Hospital Campaign. The SYNH has campaigned against the gradual downgrading of Newark Hospital and the loss of local services. Paul Baggaley, who has lived and worked in Newark his whole life and whose wife is a nurse at Newark Hospital, is currently a Newark Town Councillor, a governor for Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust and the Chairman of Newark Town FC.
Posted on: Thu, 29 May 2014 17:51:37 +0000
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