WARRINGTON Trades Council has called on the town’s MPs to support a Commons bill to stop the ‘dismantling’ of the NHS through marketisation.
The NHS reinstatement bill, which will have its second reading in the House of Commons on Friday, February 24, will propose the abolition of contracting NHS services out to private companies which Warrington Trades Council hopes will make them ‘accountable to local communities’.
The trades council, a subdivision of the TUC, has written to Warrington North MP Helen Jones and Warrington South MP David Mowat to urge them back the bill.
A spokesman for Warrington Trades Council said: “This is necessary to stop the dismantling of the NHS under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and is driven by the needs of local communities.
“Scotland and Wales have already reversed marketisation and restored their NHS without massive upheaval – England can too.”
The Warrington Guardian understands that Mr Mowat met with delegates from Warrington Trades Council on Friday, February 10, and stated that he would be unable to vote in favour of the bill as it was against government policy.
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