Doctor begins “Bevan’s Run” to stop the health bill
BMJ 2012; 344 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d8320 (Published 10 January 2012) Cite this as: BMJ 2012;344:d8320
Clive Peedell (on right of photo), a consultant oncologist and leading opponent of the government’s Health and Social Care Bill, set off on Tuesday 10 January to run from Cardiff to London to protest about the forthcoming changes to the NHS.
Dr Peedell, who is co-chairman of the NHS Consultants’ Association and on the council of the BMA, started his run at Cardiff’s statue of Aneurin Bevan, who founded the NHS in 1948. He was inspired by Bevan’s comment that there would always be an NHS “as long as there are folk left with the faith to fight for it.”
Dr Peedell said, “I certainly have that faith, and that is why I have decided to run from Bevan’s statue in Cardiff city centre to the Department of Health, Richmond House, London.”
He began the 160 mile (260 km) run with Stefan Coghlan (left), chairman of the Welsh council of the BMA, and is being accompanied on the entire run by his colleague David Wilson (middle), a consultant clinical oncologist in Middlesbrough. The run is expected to finish on Sunday 15 January. They will run about 26 miles a day.⇑
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For more information see http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2011/12/13/clive-peedell-campaigning-against-the-nhs-reforms-bevans-run/.