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Health
and the NHS: We believe all citizens should be
able to have access to the decent level of health care to
which they are entitled. Successive cuts in the National
Health Service and a creeping level of profiteering
within the industry are nothing less than a national
scandal. We believe by bringing legal action against this
financial banditry we would be sufficiently able to
reimburse the NHS without further punishing the tax
payer. Pharmaceutical companies which provide drugs to
the NHS must be reorganised under the auspices of the
corporate state. Nationalised pharmaceutical industry
would direct research at finding cures for diseases and
developing treatments for less common illnesses which the
current drugs industry ignores - because it is not
profitable to do otherwise. The bureaucracy that chokes
the running of NHS must be reduced. Privatisation must be
reversed. We also vow to increase funding for research
and development into medical cures, treatments, and
technologies.
We will ensure
that the United Kingdom has an effective and sustainable
Health Service by enacting legislation which will ensure
this. We will put an immediate end to the
counter-productive targets in healthcare. These achieve
nothing more than to push departments and administrators
to cut corners, find ways to fiddle the statistics. This
practice also encourages staff to deal with insignificant
but easily dealt with health problems while leaving the
smaller numbers of the chronically sick to wait for even
longer. All health care should revert to being assessed
on the grounds of patient need, not bureaucratic targets.
Staff numbers will be boosted, slashing unnecessary
bureaucracy and addressing the root cause of low
recruitment and retention - low pay. There is a shortage
of beds in the NHS, and staff to look after the patients
who should be in them.
A terrible
crisis within the Health service is the mass migration of
Doctors and nurses trained in Britain (training paid for
by the tax payer) to other countries who offer better
work prospects. We will ensure (through the NNBB) that
all skilled professionals in the health industry stay in
Britain, even if it means providing incentives to move to
areas in the United Kingdom where their services are
needed. We will also abolish the bursary system for
student nurses and pay them a decent wage during their
training. The hospital crèches which were done away with
under the last Conservative government will be
re-established, making it much easier for nurses to
return to work after taking time off to have
children.
More emphasis
will be placed on healthy living with greater
understanding of sickness prevention through physical
exercise, a healthier environment and improved diets. All
multi-choice school canteens should be restructured so
trained catering staff can return to traditional school
meals eaten in properly supervised dining halls.
Hospitals should wherever possible buy locally produced
food, which will be fresher and healthier as well as
supporting local businesses and strengthening the links
between hospitals and their
communities.
The
Integralist party will introduce a programme whereby
sophisticated new equipment is automatically accessible
to medical facilities, learning centres and operators
with sufficient skills to make best use of it. We will
extend the 'polluter pays' principle from environmental
damage to the impact of processed foods as well. The link
between highly processed products such as white sugar and
flour and a wide variety of degenerative diseases is so
well proven as to make it entirely reasonable to insist
that the producers and vendors of such junk should pay
extra tax to help society as a whole cover the cost of
the damage that goes hand in hand with their profits.
There is also well grounded evidence that correlates a
long suspected link between pesticides/herbicides with
cancer and other terrible illnesses, we would therefore
like to see a reduction in the use of pesticides in all
our foods and ensure the food we eat is fit to
eat.
We believe an
effective fight against MRSA and other hospital
infections is by the immediate replacement of unregulated
contract cleaners with ward-based auxiliaries. Also a
return to in-hospital laundries for all staff uniforms,
which are rarely washed at a sufficiently hot temperature
now that staff are forced to take their dirty uniforms
home and wash them themselves as part of yet another
short-sighted cost-cutting exercise which typifies what
happens when health services are run by bureaucrats
rather than experienced medical staff. Medical research
facilities researching the potential for global pandemics
of deadly viruses, and ways in which to combat them, must
receive immediate and massive increases in
funding.
We believe
that the freedom of an individual ought to extend to the
right to die with dignity at a time of one's own
choosing. Accordingly, we seek a comprehensive study of
voluntary euthanasia, drawing on experience in the
Netherlands where this practice already operates on a
limited basis.
We support
abortion and it would be allowed under medical
supervision and anyone performing abortions outside of
this will be charged according to the law but we do not
endorse abortion and our government would provide free
council to mothers/fathers and financial support would be
give to young parents if they choose to keep but cannot
afford to support their child in a manner that meets a
basic standard of living for the child and family
unit.
Social Security: We believe that all
workers are entitled to a pension in their deserved
retirement years. We believe that a National Pension
system needs to be designed. We envision that this would
be under a Corporatist economic system. Workers would be
allowed to transfer their pension from employer to
employer. We would see the national pension system as
being funded from the contributions of workers, employers
and the national government.
We want
disability benefit only to be paid to those who are
incapable of working. And those with only a full
Doctors certificate will be able to make a claim. Persons
found to be fraudulently claiming disability benefits
will be made to pay back that amount and face a possible
prison sentence.
Disability
benefits will not be payable to drug addicts or
alcoholics, as in doing so, we will only worsen the
addiction. We would provide extra funding for secure
rehabilitation centres and put an end to the ever growing
problem of alcohol, drugs and
crime.
Business will
have to create illness/sickness programmes, so as to
ensure their employees get the correct amount of rest and
relaxation after serious surgical procedures. Incapacity
benefit will only be paid on the advice of a hospital
consultant, in the form of a GP certificate. We must have
greater levels of interaction between the local GP,
hospital and Department of Work and Pensions this will
ensure that fraudulent claims for incapacity benefit will
be kept to an absolute minimum.
Disability
benefits should be paid only to those in most need. We
will put an end to fraudulent claims seekers stealing
money through fraudulent abuse of the "system" these
people not only keep vital care away from those who need
it, but their actions are linked directly to the social
breakdown of society.
Provision of disability benefits:
Citizens of an Integralist State, who suffer from
physical and mental disability, would be given every
support in order to make their contribution to society.
Provision of sheltered housing combined with a community
support network of trained carers and mentors would
ensure that the disabled would not feel socially
isolated, and are able to contribute a valid part within
Integralist Society.
Homosexuality: All homosexual persons
would continue to have the same rights and duties as
other citizens in the nation and would be expected to be
treated with the same levels of respect as any other
person. This principle however does not give litigation
to abnormal behaviours which would otherwise be looked
down upon. We expect all homosexuals to conduct
themselves publicly in the same manner as any other
citizen and to take their sexual persuasion as a fact of
life that should not hinder their ability to perform as
human beings. An
Integralist government
therefore would not
endorse or provide financial support for any form of public or
private homosexual activities associated with the promotion
(marketing) of homosexuality. Homosexuals will
have full liberty to fraternise with their own kind in privacy
but otherwise homosexuality will become a non entity as a
social force. Attempts by Neo-Marxists within the media who
seek to normalise an extreme wing of homosexual identity
politic will be stopped. Homosexuals will only gain public
acceptance when they stop attacking the population with an
aggressive agenda and instead assimilate themselves into the
nation, in short they must become
Integralists.
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