A group of 240 NHS experts has written a letter to the Independent on Sunday, expressing their anger over the British government’s Health and Social Care Bill saying they would compete against high-profile coalition MPs at the next general election in 2015.
NHS doctors have maintained that the government’s healthcare reforms would mean the demise of “the NHS in England.”
“These drastic changes fundamentally undermine the founding principles of the NHS and have no democratic mandate from the electorate and were not part of the coalition agreement,” they said in their letter.
The group of experts has asserted that the coalition politicians’ decision to put their “political survival” before “professional opinion, patient safety and the will of the citizens of this country” has urged them to launch a campaign to unseat coalition MPs at the next general election.
“We have therefore decided to form a coalition of healthcare professionals to take on coalition MPs at the next general election, on the non-party, independent ticket of defending the NHS,” NHS doctors declared.
Dr Clive Peedell, the co-chair of the NHS Consultants’ Association who organised the letter, said the group intends to field “as many candidates as possible” at the election.
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