IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

National Health

Red Weekly No. 139, 26 February 1976 · pp. 4-5 of the scan · 191 words

The scan: rw-no139-feb-26-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 6-6 of 6; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 4 of the scan

those in education - is that the deterioration of the NHS will be accentuated, whilst the slashing of the capital building programme will prevent the expansion of resources necessary to overcome this. The result of this will be a further growth in private health care, and an added stimulus to a private health sector alongside the NHS and able to grow because of the deterioration of the NHS.

CLEAR CHOICE The cuts in health spending may not be dramatic, but they should in no way be under-stated. The choice faced by the labour movement is posed even more sharply by the White Paper: allow the Labour Government to continue on its present course, and we face the destruction of the NHS as it is today, not to be ... a neaith service under the control of working people.? ... a health service responsive to the needs of working people.' Bulletin of the National Co-ordinating Committee Against Cuts in the NHSavailable price 5p plus 7p p&p from: Dr Paul Stern, 55 Bridge Lane, London NW1.

page 5 of the scan

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