The NHS is dead. Long live the NHS.

This election is our last chance to save the NHS. That might sound dramatic, but that's exactly where we are.

We're not in the situation of preventing privatisation - it's already happening, and at speed, and, legally, it's already private. What Labour would be doing is halting, then reversing privatisation. As well as funding it properly and putting it putting it back on a sustainable basis. This is huge.

Do we want a US-style private or insurance-based system with minimal safety net, with all the profit privatised and the risk kept public? Do we want to pay US prices for medicine, as dictated by big pharma? Or do we want a properly funded public NHS, as Labour set up in 1948, as Conservatives repeatedly voted against and as Lib Dems refused to defend? The weasel words "free at the point of delivery", which is the best the Tories will commit to (which is in any case already a lie), means hollowing out the system, removing the profitable bits, undermining the very ethos of the NHS, draining the system of money and putting it in the hands of privately-orientated managerial vultures.

Only Labour, only Labour, can be trusted to do the right thing by the people's health service and you really need to think about that before you cast your vote.

I have health needs and have experienced the best and worst of how it is now. I have a…