Passed unanimously on 25.9.13
Labour Party Conference Contemporary motion: Rebuild our NHS
Conference notes that the NHS is in crisis due to privatisation,
fragmentation and cuts - now being exacerbated by the Tories' Health and
Social Care Act. Conference welcomes Andy Burnham's commitment: “We will
repeal the bill... that is saddling the NHS with a complicated mess.”
Conference believes Labour must return to the NHS's founding principles:
free healthcare at the point of need, through a publicly-owned,
publicly-provided and publicly-accountable system. Conference notes that
on 3 August the Care Quality Commission issued a formal warning to the
PFI-indebted, cash-strapped Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals Trust over poor
patient care. We have also seen the privatisation of Hinchingbrooke
Trust, which has massive PFI debts, and South London Healthcare Trust
put into administration. Conference notes that A&E units at Ealing,
Charing Cross, Hammersmith and Central Middlesex hospitals are
threatened with closure - a threat replicated around the country.
Conference condemns the 19 south-west Trusts pushing for regional pay,
with Andrew Lansley's approval. Conference calls for the next Labour
government to:
Restore the Secretary of State's duty to provide comprehensive healthcare
Repeal the Health and Social Care Act
Reverse privatisation and outsourcing at every level
Liberate the NHS from extortionate PFI charges
Abolish the internal market
Ensure decent, national wages, pensions and conditions for those
working for the NHS
Fund decent provision for all through progressive taxation
Conference calls on all sections of the party to work with the health
unions and other NHS supporters to oppose privatisation, cuts and closures.
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