Hundreds of households across Thurrock gathered today to protest against NHS privatisation and the TTIP trade deal.

The three-day action has houses displaying estate-agent-style boards calling for the NHS to veto the EU-US trade deal.

The action, which is being run by the People's NHS, is to campaign against parts of the NHS becoming vulnerable to being sold if the TTIP trade deal goes through.

Rows of houses will display 'Cameron & Hunt' estate agent boards calling for direction from the Prime Minister.

A spokesperson for the Thurrock People's NHS group said: "The UK’s entire health system is now up for sale because of the coalition government’s Health and Social Care Act.

"Since 2012 almost 70 per cent of NHS contracts put up for sale have gone to the private sector. The Tories won’t stop there, they want to make the sell-off irreversible through a trade deal called TTIP. But David Cameron did not tell us this sell-off was being planned when he was out campaigning during the 2010 general election campaign.

"The action is a strong message to Jackie Doyle-Price MP for Thurrock that her constituents oppose the Tory agenda to hand our NHS to the profit driven companies."

The deal known as TTIP is the biggest bilateral trade deal ever negotiated between the EU and the United States and threatens to make the sell-off of the NHS irreversible by giving the profits of corporations precedence over national lawmakers.

TTIP could give US multinationals, or any firm with American investors, new rights to sue the UK government if it ever tried to take privatised health services back into public hands.