ELECTIONS: Signing up for the Save Our NHS campaign in Yeovil

CAMPAIGNERS were out in Yeovil town centre today (Saturday, February 28, 2015) drumming up support to urge General Election candidates to Save Our NHS.

Members of the 38 Degrees campaign group in Middle   Street talking to shoppers about the threat which faces the NHS.

A spokesman said: “Unless politicians take action to save our NHS now, our health service as we know it – free and available when we need it – might not be there for our children and our grandchildren.”

PHOTO – TOP: Trudy Baddams and Iwo Domeracki, of the 38 Degrees group, in Yeovil town centre today.

The group claims that politicians have already privatised huge parts of the NHS, not given hospitals and other health services the funding they need and have ignored advice from doctors and nurses.

The spokesman added: “Our NHS is precious. We rely on it to care for us and our families when we need it. We want to protect it for the future.

“Politicians have the power to save the NHS or destroy it. In May, we go to the polls. When we cast our vote, we need to know that the MPs we elect will stand up for our NHS, and promise to protect it.”

The 38 Degrees group is gaining support from thousands of people across the country who are signing a petition asking MPs to put a stop to the privatisation of the NHS, make sure it has the funding it needs to provide high quality healthcare and protect it from US health corporations by keeping the NHS out of a trade deal with America.

To sign the petition to save our NHS – go to www.38degrees.org.uk/nhs.

The 38 Degrees is one of the UK’s biggest campaigning groups with more than 2.5million members. They share a desire for a more progressive, fairer, better society and come together to decide which issues they campaign on and the actions they will take to help achieve that.

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