Louise Irvine

Personal details:

Name

Dr Louise Irvine

ID

4583

Email

swsurreynha@gmail.com

Party

National Health Action Party

Statement to voters

I’ve been a GP in Lewisham in south east London for 25 years. As chair of the Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign I helped save our local hospital from closure. We organized an amazing community campaign that brought together people from all walks of life to defend our local health services. We took the government to court to challenge its decision to close Lewisham Hospital and we won – and we won again in the Court of Appeal.

As a GP I am very concerned that our beloved NHS is being run down, privatized, fragmented and underfunded. This is an issue that affects everyone in the country. If we don’t all stand up for it now, it will be destroyed. I want to use this election to raise awareness amongst people of these threats and what we can do about it. We must ensure that this government is not re-elected and that any future government commits to reversing the cuts and privatisation of the NHS, to secure its future as an excellent public service caring for us all throughout our lives.

As part of the Save Lewisham Campaign, I visited Farnham last year to highlight the damage that the Health Secretary and local MP Jeremy Hunt were doing to our hospitals and the NHS. I haven’t forgotten the warm welcome we received from many people in Farnham who were deeply concerned about how the NHS is being run down and sold off.

Now I’m standing against Jeremy Hunt and I hope the people of South West Surrey will welcome this opportunity to vote for someone who is dedicated to defending the NHS instead of privatising and cutting it.

I’ve faced Jeremy Hunt in the courts – and beaten him twice. Now I’ll face him at the ballot box. He needs to be held to account for the way in which he and his government have bulldozed democracy, changing the law to push through hospital closures when he was beaten in court and launching a massive, wasteful and damaging reorganisation of the NHS without any popular mandate. I look forward to a serious debate with the Health Secretary about the future of our NHS.

This statement was last updated on 12 June 2022 09:41.

Candidacies:

Contested the UK Parliamentary general election (8 June 2017)

South West Surrey National Health Action Party
Not elected (12093 votes)
2nd / 5 candidates

Contested the UK Parliamentary general election (7 May 2015)

South West Surrey National Health Action Party
Not elected (4851 votes)
4th / 7 candidates

Contested the European Parliament (UK) elections (22 May 2014)

London National Health Action Party List position 1

Links and social media:

Email

swsurreynha@gmail.com

Facebook Page

https://www.facebook.com/SouthWestSurreyNHA

Homepage

https://nhaswsurrey.wordpress.com/

Party candidate page

http://nhap.org/dr-louise-irvine/

Wikidata

Q18921949

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Irvine

YourNextMEP ID

london--dr-louise-irvine

Demographics:

Gender

Female

Age

67 or 68 (Born: 1957)

Photo Credit:

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