Our population is growing and we are living longer, but this means more of us need the NHS.
Created by Labour in 1948, the Tories almost destroyed it under Margaret Thatcher. Ahead of the 2010 election, David Cameron promosed to maintain funding levels. However, much of the NHS cash has been wasted on unnecessary expensive reorganisation.
Cameron's government are trying to privatise as much of our NHS as possible and we now know that
£20 BILLION CUTS have cost the jobs of 7,000 front-line NHS clinical staff - including doctors and nurses - since 2010. This piece in the Guardian has the full facts