Caroline Lucas - Tories and the NHS
05 January 2010
In their general election manifesto launch, a key plank is the Tory pledges on maternity services. Caroline Lucas, leader of the Green Party, responds in a letter to the Independent:
"Tory plans to protect the NHS are simply spin and rhetoric, when what they really want is fragmentation and privatisation. Dislike for the NHS runs deep in the Conservative culture, as we all saw during the Thatcher and Major years, and more recently with Daniel Hannan's repeated attacks and suggestion that the NHS is a 60-year mistake."
"Women need urgent investment in midwifery services. They need to have personalised and comprehensive care as good as that provided by independent midwives, but provided by the NHS. They also need to feel confident to give birth at home or in well staffed maternity units. The Conservatives, however, will simply fragment care even more than has already happened, and they will create a two tier health care system, one for the rich and one for everyone else."
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