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<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.doctorsforthenhs.org.uk/about/|title=About}}</ref> The '''NHS Consultants Association''' was formed in 1976 by medical consultants with a strong commitment to the NHS and its founding principles.  It changed its name to '''Doctors For the NHS''' in 2014.<ref>{{cite web|title=NHS Consultants Association|url=http://www.nhsca.org.uk/pages/stopress/stopress.html|accessdate=7 January 2015}}</ref>

Current Chair is Colin Hutchinson. 
In 2005 the Association initiated the campaign [[Keep Our NHS Public]].<ref>{{cite web|title=NHS Consultants' Association against commercialisation and fragmentation of the NHS|url=http://britishgeriatricssociety.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/nhs-consultants-association-against-commercialisation-and-fragmentation-of-the-nhs/|publisher=British Geriatric Society|accessdate=5 January 2014|date=6 March 2013}}</ref>

It was active in the campaign against the [[Health and Social Care Act 2012]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Appeal to the Queen to save the NHS in Her Jubilee Year!|url=http://www.labournet.net/other/1203/nhsqn1.html|publisher=LabourNet UK|accessdate=5 January 2014|date=16 March 2012}}</ref> and strives to maintain the founding principles of the NHS as an institution for service not profit. Membership is open to all doctors who share these views.

In January 2022 Hutchinson said “The principal reason the NHS now needs to make use of the private sector is because of long-term underinvestment.”<ref>{{cite news |title=London NHS hospitals bought £36m of services from US healthcare firm HCA last year |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/21/london-nhs-hospitals-bought-36m-of-services-from-us-healthcare-firm-hca-last-year |access-date=14 November 2022 |publisher=Guardian |date=21 January 2022}}</ref>

==References==

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==External links==
* [http://www.nhsca.org.uk/ NHS Consultants Association]

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