The recent threat of imposing the new contract, the scrapping of training bursaries for nurses, cutting of mental health beds, the demands on GPs - all of these are part of the government's plan to create a "modern workforce" in the NHS - flexible (zero hours?), less skilled, downgraded, cheaper - and to switch to "new care models" imported from American private health insurance companies.

This government is desperate to continue discrediting and undermining staff across the entire workforce of our NHS. Now is the time to stand together and protect our NHS from disastrous takeover by private health firms such as Virgin Care, United Health, Optum, Locala, Circle, CareUK.  And many more.