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Manifesto pledge
• IT is a tribute to the public and professional spirit of its staff that they kept the NHS alive and desperately trying to do its best even when Margaret Thatcher was cutting back on its already inadequate resources and finally trying to turn the NHS into a commercially competitive market.
This costly, wasteful, and destructive political experiment was roundly rejected by the British people when they overwhelmingly elected the Labour Party to power in 1997.
The potential Camden sell-out of the NHS to commercial interests as reported in your columns, should surely prompt us to remind Labour of its manifesto pledge so emphatically endorsed by the public but still falling far short of implementation, An NHS for the future (Labour Party Election Manifesto) “Our fundamental purpose is simple but hugely important: to restore the NHS as a public service working co-operatively for patients, not a commercial business driven by competition.”
PROFESSOR HARRY KEEN
President, NHS Support Federation
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