BRIGHTON will play host to a free, public birthday party for the NHS with music, stalls, an exhibition, a giant birthday card for people to sign and birthday cake to share, on Friday July 5.
Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas and Pip Tindall, an NHS worker will address the event from 4pm onwards.
Caroline said:
“We are fighting for a fair deal for those needing health care, by opposing cuts, closures and privatisation and demanding a full programme of locally accessible services. It’s unfair that quality of care suffers when hospitals and surgeries are treated like profit-driven businesses rather than public services”.
There will be music from local bands Ska Toons, Maracatu, Momma Swift and Silver Sounds – as well as the Red Green Singers.
There will be a release of balloons to symbolise all the positive treatments Brighton and Hove residents receive from the NHS.
Health campaigner Sean de Podesta, who has helped organise the event, said
Mr de Podesta who helped organise the event, said:
“Growing numbers of us wish to ensure that the achievements of the NHS are properly recognized and the bad news appearing almost daily in the media is not used a pretext to dismantle it. We hope everyone joining the party will have fun and be heartened to continue the struggle to ensure a secure future for our NHS.”
Event: Free public ‘birthday party’ to mark 65th anniversary of NHS
Where: North Lawn, York Place, Brighton (by St Peter’s Church)
When: Friday, July 5
Time: 3-7pm
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