Three key principles set us apart from the main parties:
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Firstly, our clear and unambiguous position on the NHS (saving it; reinstating; de-commercialising it).
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Secondly, we are calling for a new politics – promoting the idea of independent MPs and a parliament that is responsive to the people – not to party whips and the cynical calculations of career politicians.
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Thirdly, in addition to the NHS, we stand as a public health party with a wider concern for a healthy society. Not just the pursuit of economic growth as the basis for all social policy.
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These are our founding values which will drive future policy-making
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As we are a new party, we will not initially be providing detailed policy proposals on issues crossing the entire political spectrum. Our initial focus will be on healthcare, where we have most expertise.
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Specifically for the NHS, we will work to:
- Base health and social care on fair ethical principles and due process and governance
- De-commercialise the health system, with co-operation not markets.
- Abolish the hugely expensive purchaser/provider split and wasteful competition.
- Increase the patients’ and citizens’ participation in the organisation and provision of healthcare
- Reduce the influence of the costly management consultancy industry
- Improve the integration of community and hospital care within the NHS, as well as between the NHS and social care
- Promote innovative public health approaches to health improvement
- Reform the current unfair, overly complex and unsustainable social care system and to promote a fair, effective and efficient health and social care programme integrated with sound public health and just economic policies