6 Jul 2020

This weekend it is the NHS’s 72nd birthday and what better way is there to celebrate than with a delicious birthday cake?! All over the country people have been busy baking cakes to say no to privatisation and demand better for our NHS.

We are calling on the government to stop handing out slices of our NHS to private companies. Years of outsourcing and stealth privatisation have created a fragmented healthcare system that is suffering from a case of too many cooks!

The key ingredient to a successful National Health Service has always been public ownership. The NHS was founded 72 years ago as a universal, free-at-the-point-of-use, national healthcare system. Seven decades later, 83% of us still believe that the NHS must be run for people not profit.

THANK YOU to everyone who has already sent in pictures of amazing NHS birthday cakes. You can join them - follow the instructions here!

CLICK ON THE PILE OF PHOTOS to see the cakes:

Feeling inspired? Make (or buy!) your own NHS birthday cake to say no to privatisation and to demand that our NHS is reinstated and fully funded.

You can spread the word by emailing your photo to your local newspaper ideally with a short letter, calling on your MP to end privatisation, reinstate our NHS, and fund it properly. Do let us know if you do this - especially if you get published in your local newspaper!

If you’re on social media, share your picture with the hashtags #BuildBackBetter #rebuildtheNHS #2020vision and copy your MP, Boris Johnson, and Matt Hancock.

Don't forget to join us if you can at 3:30pm on Sunday 5th July for the online rally for the NHS’s birthday.

Let's wish a very happy 72nd birthday to our beloved NHS - here’s to the next 72 years!

Give the NHS a birthday present it deserves - an end to privatisation

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  • Emma Davies 6 years ago

    Maybe these pictures could be put on billboard posters for all to see. Like led by donkeys?

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  • maria kay 6 years ago

    MAY BE THESE PHOTOS SHOULD BE SHOWN MORE

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  • Caroline Spencer-Palmer 6 years ago

    I wanted to share the photo of my cake too! How do I do that?!

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    • Pascale 6 years ago

      Hi Caroline! Thanks so much for making a cake!

      Could you send photos through to info@weownit.org.uk? We can't wait to see it!

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  • Irena Fick 6 years ago

    I could only see two male bakers (and one man looking on), is this right? in 2020?

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  • Timothy Owen 6 years ago

    I may be a looking-on male but I baked the cake!

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  • Liz Mardel 6 years ago

    Keep our wonderful NHS in public ownership - we certainly don't want to go the American way!

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  • Soozles 6 years ago

    These are lovely and inventive cakes and pies. I especially like the one which is rainbow coloured sponge layers.
    Slice the cakes, not the NHS.

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  • Angela Morton 6 years ago

    Some great cakes and even greater messages! We can't allow this government to keep carving up our NHS!

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  • Caroline Cherry-Ellison 6 years ago

    If we want to celebrate 75 NHS years we need to privatise Boris and his motley crew to a remote island out. Of harming way’s until they repent of their political stance in regard to OUR yes OUR NHS.

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  • Jim 6 years ago

    The government say that they want the cake of our NHS, but continue to eat it, to give it away.
    You can't have your cake and eat it, say no to privatisation and save our NHS!

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