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4 Nov 2019

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If you don’t want the NHS to be a political weapon – depoliticise it!

NHS bosses have said that the NHS should not be used as a political weapon in the forthcoming general election:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50282333

But it will ALWAYS be used as a political weapon if it is given annual sums of money or has very short-term plans made by the political party currently in power, as is the case now.

The solution is to make the NHS independent of politics, have a long-term funding plan and have it run by non-politically appointed staff.

You can’t have it both ways.

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  1. Yet Simon Stevens and other NHS England chiefs are meeting weekly with Johnson and Hancock during the election campaign so that they can work out how to neutralise the risks that waiting lists etc. blow up in their faces. If they are so keen for the NHS to be neutral the first thing they could do would be to politely refuse these meetings.

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