We reached out to our friends at Keep Our NHS Public to build on the petition they've built with change.org to protect our NHS from a US trade deal.

We're now building a broad coalition together to take on this fight (see the list of supporting organisations at the bottom of this page.)

A trade deal with Donald Trump is a danger to our NHS and it's hurtling towards us fast. 

Boris Johnson said that the NHS is ‘not on the table’ - but words are not enough. 

As long as private companies are allowed to compete for  NHS services, the NHS will automatically be included in trade deals. Our NHS is already open to competition from private companies like Virgin Care, and American companies like United Health.

The only way to really protect our NHS is to get rid of laws that allow private contracts in the NHS. Without this, it will be impossible to exclude the NHS from a trade deal. 

That’s why we’re asking you to write to your MP today.

Signing a trade deal also means that current NHS privatisation will be ‘locked in’ - very difficult to reverse - with the door wide open for more deregulation and takeover by US healthcare giants in the future. 

There are also new threats that come with a trade deal, like data privacy violations, lowering of health and safety standards, and vital medicines becoming completely unaffordable for our NHS.

It’s clear that Boris Johnson is moving fast to push through Brexit. Our NHS MUST NOT be a casualty.

Our amazing NHS is one of those things.