50th ANNIVERSARY OF NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE ACT 1946

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This is an amendment to an existing motion

This motion was originally tabled by Tessa Jowell on 05 November 1996. This is amendment number 1.

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Suggested amendment

leave out from `House' to end add `welcomes all party support for the NHS; and notes that Labour governments cared for the NHS for a significant part of its life and that Conservative governments have carried most of the responsibility for nuturing and improving the NHS.'.

Original motion text

That this House celebrates 6th November 1996 as the 50th Anniversary of the passing into law of the National Health Service Act 1946, not only as the foundation stone of the National Health Service, not only as personal memorial to the vision, socialist principles, far-sightedness and statesmanship of Aneurin Bevan, but also as the finest working example of the principle of public provision of an essential service vital to a civilised society; and calls on the present Government, in spite of its predecessors having voted against the Act's Second and Third Readings, to avoid any further damage to the National Health Service pending the General Election.

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