Thread by @rajacexplains

Ah, le sigh. As a medic and Lib Dem, I've twice been tagged on Facebook to explain @LibDems position on Labour's amendment.

Let's be clear:

***@UKLabour's amendment was anti-@NHS***

The amendment regretted the introduction of the 2012 Health And Social Care Act introduced 1/

by the coalition government aka as the Lansley reforms. The amendment Labour put forward would require reversing 7 years of reorganisation and reverting to management structures, since abandoned.

It would be a waste of time and money. It would do untold harm to patients and 2/

staff. And anybody supporting such a change should be ashamed of themselves. The NHS does not need *more* top-down reorganisation.

Of course, the truth is, Labour don't intend to do any of that. This amendment was, once again, using the NHS as a political football and in that 3/

sense, you've got to hand it to Labour. The amendment even if it had passed would achieve nothing but its great to use it for political point-scoring.

But it does worry me that Labour's intent is to reorganise the NHS *again* for no reason. It's not what the NHS wants, needs 4/

or indeed will necessarily survive.

The biggest boon to the NHS would be to ensure security for its medicines, its research links and above all its EU staff.

To #SaveOurNHS, we need to #StopBrexit and you need to vote @LibDems.

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