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Reporting NHS privatisation
podcasts |If campaigners get their way the creeping privatisation of the National Health Service will become one of the key issues in the run-up to the 2015 general election. Keep Our NHS Public – at the forefront of the campaign -- admits it won’t be easy to get the news media’s attention. Nicholas Jones heard from four of the activists about how they hope to get their message across.
Since 1948, the NHS has been publically funded, and free to all at the point of need, however, it's now undergoing massive reforms and campaigners say that it's being broken up, privatised and changed beyond recognition. Services will suffer and the NHS as we know it will be no more. Despite this, the reporting of the decimation of the NHS has been sketchy, and although local papers and radio have produced some compelling stories, national coverage has been minimal in detailing these complex issues.
Keep Our NHS Public is a campaign aimed at raising public awareness and Nick Jones speaks to John Lister, Jill George, Roger Gartland and Jean Smith about their lobbying efforts.
DATELINE: 26 August, 2014
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