We have just seen the importance of democracy in relation to matters of life and death overseas. We must restore it at home, too.
Labour has a chance to show it’s serious about saving the NHS from death by a thousand privatisations.
The Coalition government is treating the NHS "more like a failing bank than a public service," according to The Lancet.
Jeremy Hunt should stop playing yahboo politics and and restore his own legal responsibility to secure a comprehensive NHS, which last year's Act scrapped.
The reinstatement bill continues to be improved and sharpened, including an important adjustment to ensure any international trade deal ro treaty would require parliamentary approval if legislating for the NHS.
David Owen's Reinstatement bill continues to be improved and the below shows the latest text of both the bill and the accompanying explanatory notes.
An explanation of what David Owen's new bill is trying to achieve and why it is needed
A new bill to reinstate the legal and democratic basis of the NHS in England has been laid before parliament in the House of Lords by David Owen. Here, to launch our new NHS section, Owen writes for openDemocracy on why it is both essential and urgently needed, to re-establish the principled publi
