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We demand that British citizens shall continue to have access to a state-funded National Health Service, and the state should routinely promote and fund programmes which encourage a physically and mentally healthy lifestyle. Foreigners or visitors will be required to pay for the use of public health services.

 

A physically and mentally health people lead to a healthy National Community. Therefore, fostering this health must be a task for which the state must assume overwhelming responsibility. A National Health Service, free at point of use, and providing reasonable care to any who require it, is an essential tool for this task. In order for this tool to work effectively, it must operate on the principle that prevention is better than cure. It is better to prevent our people from falling into ill physical and mental health, than to treat issues after they have arisen. To this end, the National Health Service must invest seriously (with both money and manpower) into programmes and enterprises which promote and actively work to improve physical fitness, good mental health, and good dietary habits.

 

It should also actively participate in programmes and enterprises which work towards the elimination of drug and alcohol abuse, and generally unhealthy lifestyles. With the right to use a public health service, comes the duty to take reasonable steps to look after one’s own health.

 

Where prevention doesn’t work, cure is needed, and to this end the National Health Service must be managed and financed in the most efficient way possible, to ensure the greatest good can be achieved for the greatest number of people. Wastage of public resources through bad practices, procurement and administration cannot be tolerated. The money saved through ruthless auditing can be spent improving wages for staff and conditions for patients.

 

With all this, the National Health Service exists for the National Community; it exists for those who have built it and who, through their work and contributions, perpetuate it. To that end, public health services must only be free at point of use for British Citizens, and foreigners using it, regardless of country of origin, must be required to pay for it either through private health insurance of their own arrangement, or by purchasing refundable public health insurance from the state as a condition of obtaining an entry visa to the country.

 

By National Rebirth Party

 

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