NHS campaigners took to the streets of Westminster in  scrubs today to urge the public to join the massive Health March on Saturday June 30, marking the 70^th anniversary of the service.

GP Dr Louise Irvine said the Tories’ latest funding pledge was “too little too late” and the NHS had been brought “to its knees.”

She said that the funding increase needs to be at least 4 per cent, privatisation of services needs to end, and decent pay and conditions need to be brought in to recruit and retain staff.

Junior doctor Sonia Adesara said she is “angry” at what the government is doing because she feels “unable to give the best care to patients” because of understaffing and under-resourcing.

She spoke out against adult social care being starved of funds, which would result in more patients being admitted to hospital when available care at home would mean they would not need to be.

Nurse Danielle Tiplady said that she will be protesting on the march against eight years of pay cuts and 40,000 nurse vacancies remaining unfilled.

“This has got to change, we and patients deserve better,” she stormed.