Mark Clarke is committed to a successful St George’s Hospital with a motivated staff who have the independence to make clinical judgements without managerial or political interference.

Whilst growing up, Mark was in and out of St George’s Hospital with various broken bones, dislocated kneecaps, tonsillitis etc. He knows the importance of the work that St George’s does because he benefited from it.

But Mark also knows of the dedication of the staff at St George’s, not least because his mother worked there for many years as a psychologist. His grandfather was also a London GP working at the front line of patient care. As Mark said, “the NHS is in my blood and I will always support our local hospitals and services.” 

• We will write into law the underlying principle of the NHS that all people will receive universal access to a comprehensive health service based on need and not ability to pay. 
• We will ensure that public funds for healthcare are devoted solely to NHS patients; we have ruled out subsidies to private healthcare. 
• We will not sanction any more pointless re-organisations of the NHS.
• We will establish an independent NHS Board to allocate money where the NHS needs it, and not where politicians want it. 
• We will abolish top-down, politically-motivated targets through which politicians have interfered in day-to-day clinical decisions. 
• We will put real power, including NHS budgets, in the hands of doctors, nurses and other health professionals. 

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