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SUMMARY:SOS NHS - National Day of Action
DESCRIPTION:Zero Covid UK is backing the SOS NHS coalition and helping to build the national day of action. See this page for more information.\n\n\n\n\nOur NHS is facing its worst ever crisis\, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Here’s why we’re making these demands of the Government now.  \nThis is a national emergency. Government could invest properly in health but over the last decade and more\, we’ve seen it doesn’t have the political will to do so. Instead it turns to private sector providers who have failed the NHS time and again\, wasting tens of billions during the pandemic. We need change now. \nThis will be the hardest winter ever in health and social care for a generation. We must act now to save staff morale\, avoid a mental health crisis among health and care staff and safeguard services for patients and service users. \nThere has also been a total failure of government during the pandemic. Public health measures have been undermined and far too many have been allowed to die\, especially among vulnerable groups. 47\,000 residents in care homes died during the pandemic\, and six out of ten deaths overall have been disabled people. \nGovernment policies have led to growing levels of inequality which have exacerbated the crisis. 30% of those admitted to ITU with Covid-19 were of ‘non-white ethnicity’ despite making up only 14% of the population. \nWe also recognise that essential steps to keep NHS workers safe are still not properly in place\, with PPE provision still well below what’s required and that immediate steps must be taken to improve ventilation in clinical areas. \nThe Health and Care Bill addresses none of these problems. It will not put an end to contracts going to the private sector\, draining resources from the NHS. \nTo save lives\, we need emergency funds now to make up for an annual deficit of around £35bn. We must recruit and retain more frontline staff and pay them properly. In future we need a return to a fully publicly funded and provided national health service\, protected from private companies who put profit before patients. \nOUR THREE DEMANDS: \n\nApprove emergency funding of £20 billion* to save lives this winter\nInvest in a fully publicly owned NHS & guarantee free healthcare for future generations\nPay staff properly: without fair pay\, staffing shortages will cost lives
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