A socialist programme for the NHS

  • Bring the NHS into public ownership. Rebuild it as a publicly funded service, free at the point of use, with immediate cash to end the underfunding crisis.
  • Bring all trusts and foundation hospitals into a democratically run NHS. Representatives of NHS workers, trade unions and health service users should make decisions about how the NHS is run and what its priorities are.
  • A living wage and good working conditions for all NHS workers.
  • Abolish the internal market. Abandon the Private Finance Initiative. All new hospitals to be built with public funding, not for private profit.
  • Nationalise the pharmaceutical industry under democratic working-class control and management.
  • A socialist programme to eliminate poverty – the biggest killer and cause of ill-health.