NHS campaign off to good start

Friday 15 March 2013

A new campaign group was launched in Yorkshire today to defend the National Health Service.

Keep the NHS Public is growing in Kirklees, the administrative district based on Huddersfield in West Yorkshire.

Support for the group has grown so quickly it has already formed two wings – one to negotiate with GPs and the new Clinical Commissioning Groups, the other to organise public lobbying, protests and campaigns.

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