A RUN from Cardiff to London, organised in protest at the NHS reforms, arrived in Oxford yesterday.
Two doctors started the run, that will take them from Aneurin Bevan’s statue in Cardiff to the Department of Health in London, on Monday.
Dr Clive Peedell, co-chair of the NHS Consultants Association, and fellow oncologist David Wilson organised the run as a symbolic act opposing the Government’s Health and Social Care Bill.
They claim the bill, which will see the majority of the NHS budget handed to GPs, and open bids for healthcare up to the private sector, will “privatise and dismember the NHS in England”.
The Oxford leg of the run was organised by Oxfordshire Keep Our NHS Public Dr Peedell said: “Nye Bevan was the founder of the NHS and I think he would be appalled at this Bill as it undermines the founding principles of a comprehensive service – free at the point of use whatever people’s medical condition.”
The runners, pictured at Nye Bevan Close, in Oxford, led a protest on Church Green in David Cameron’s Witney constituency earlier in the day.
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