NHS 75
ANNIVERSARY EVENT CALENDAR
July 5th is the 75th birthday of our NHS, sadly it is not a time to celebrate.
Our healthcare service was once ranked the best in the world, but since 2015 it has fallen to 10th place globally and is falling fast. We are now faced with hundreds of preventable and avoidable deaths happening every week. A major staffing crisis with over 132,000 staffing vacancies, and over 7 million on waiting lists. No wonder staff are either leaving their professions or striking to save their pay and conditions and to stand up for the NHS itself.
We need a fully public NHS – because this is how we protect the pay, conditions and it’s also how we protect it for patients too. It’s the only way the NHS will survive. This isn’t time to ‘reform or retreat’ , it’s time to return to founding principles.
However, it is vital we mark the 75th Anniversary and use the spotlight under which the NHS will fall this year to make our demands and organise to save our NHS. Below are just some of the NHS Anniversary events happening up and down the country this July.
If you want to let us know about other events in your area not listed you can do so here.
SATURDAY 1 JULY 2023
LONDON, ENGLAND
SOCIALIST HEALTH ASSOCIATION NHS 75 CONFERENCE
SHA NHS 75 Conference, featuring campaigning NHS workers, union leaders, overseas workers, MPs, and we all who use the service. The event is backed by: Doctors in Unite, Keep Our NHS Public, War on Want, SOS NHS and new endorsements are arriving daily.
Our speakers include Zarah Sultana MP, Ian Byrne MP, Rosena Allin-Khan MP, migrant champion Cllr Hosnieh Djafari-Marbini, Lester Holloway on Windrush, researchers and activists Faiza Shaheen, Liz Peretz and Benjamin Goodair, nurse campaigner Antonia Berelson, Rathi Guhadasan, Tony O’Sullivan, Coral Jones and more TBC.
Start: Saturday, July 01, 2023•10:15 AM
End: Saturday, July 01, 2023• 4:30 PM
Location: Conway Hall• 25 Red Lion Square, LONDON, WC1R 4RL GB
Contact: admin@sochealth.co.uk
LEEDS, ENGLAND
NORTHERN MARCH FOR THE NHS
Organised by Health Campaigns Together and Keep Our NHS Public regional campaigners and other the Northern March for the NHS is a vital moment to demand:
And end to chronic underfunding of the NHS
Safe staffing and pay justice for health and care workers
More beds
Investment in the NHS not private health
An end to social care disgrace
Start: Saturday 1 July
Location: Leeds Town Hall LS1 3AD
Contact info: leedskonp@yahoo.co.uk
SUNDAY 2 JULY 2023
TREDEGAR, WALES
BEVAN FESTIVAL 2023
The annual Bevan Festival will be a key event for those in Wales to celebrate the founder of the NHS. Starting on July 2nd with a banner parade from Charles Street to Bedwellty Park for Speeches and family fun
Ymunwch â ni ar Orffennaf 2il ar ein gorymdaith faner flynyddol o Charles Street i Barc Bedwellte ar gyfer Areithiau a hwyl i’r teulu
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WEDNESDAY 5 JULY 2023
NATIONWIDE
WE OWN IT – #NHS75: Your birthday wish for our NHS at 75
We Own It are calling on their supporters this NHS’s 75th anniversary, to organise or attend a local action in your local high street. Their plan is to provide NHS birthday cards, which you can get people on your local high street to sign and write messages on and you can deliver them to your MP’s office and can also provide you with leaflets and posters for your actionContact info@weownit.org.uk if you or a campaign group you are part of can organise an action on your local high street on the 5th of July.
FIND OUT MORE HERE
ONLINE RALLY
NHS 75 – KEEP OUR NHS PUBLIC ONLINE RALLY
Speakers:
Tony O’Sullivan – Co-chair – Keep Our NHS Public
Lester Holloway – The Voice
Ellen Clifford – DPAC activist and author
Pallavi Devulapalli – GP – Green Party Health Spokesperson
Holly Turner – Nurse – NHS Workers Say No
Chantelle Lunt – Merseyside BLM Alliance
Richard Burgon MP – Labour Party
Harry Eccles – Nurse – NHS Workers Say No
Margaret Greenwood MP – Labour Party
And more tba
If you want to let us know about an upcoming NHS anniversary event in your area you would like to see listed here – you can do so by filling out this form: