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Helen
A call to action
This next week could be the deciding one for the future of our NHS.
The Faith to Fight for the NHS
Our money wasted on private profit and decisions made by management consultants
Postcode lotteries, hospitals closing, fewer treatments and longer waiting times
Costs to the NHS and taxpayers up as hospitals are tied up in bureaucracy
Helen
This next week could be the deciding one for the future of our NHS.
Helen
Over the past months, our campaign to stop Cameron destroying our NHS has just kept building.
The college, which represents 34,000 GPs in England, said the overhaul had to be stopped because it threatened to cause "irreparable damage" to care.
Helen
This evening, Andy Burnham and the Labour Party are proposing a motion in Parliament urging the Government to rethink their plans to radically increase the role of the private sector in our National Health Service.
Helen
Yesterday, children across the country opened the first window in their advent calendars, starting the countdown to Christmas. But we want to mark the countdown in another way - by sending David Cameron a message that all we want for Christmas is our NHS.
Jos Bell
If it were not so ironic it could be reassuring: during the course of the House of Lords second reading of the health and social care bill almost every Lord or Baroness who spoke referred to the need to amend the bill in one way or another.
Helen
Following on from the success of our September 'Big NHS Weekend', when union and Labour members campaigned together in 100 constituencies across the country, we've now set dates for October, November and December.
Jack
Party machine try to stop members debating the Health and Social Care Bill
So, yesterday Cameron's Health Bill passed its Report Stage in the House of Commons. Only two days had been allocated to debate this huge Bill that will have such an impact on the Health Service we know and love. Labour MPs spoke out again and again against the measures, explaining that they believe these so-called reforms are wasting millions of pounds on structural changes that will mean worse patient care, more privatisation and more red tape.