NHS in Bristol
NHS Rally London 10th April
On the 10th April, there will be a national demonstration in London in defence of the public services (see http://www.lookafterournhs.org.uk/). We urge as many Green Party members as possible to come along to this rally to show that they and the Green Party support the NHS.
The Green Party supports fully publicly funded public services and has long opposed privatisation of the public services, particularly the NHS. We support the doctors, nurses and other health care professionals in their efforts to protect and preserve the NHS as a public health service, free at the point of delivery and paid for out of public taxation, not through the Private Finance Initiative or other forms of private funding.
The NHS in Bristol
In February 2010 South Bristol community hospital, which has been promised to Bristol South residents for years, finally got the go ahead. It will be built at Whitchurch Lane in Hengrove Park and the hospital will be due to open in the spring of 2012. Southmead hospital will also be rebuilt. But both these new hospitals will be built with private money under what are Private Finance Initiatives (PFI).