30 passed at last year's conference NATIONAL CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE AGAINST CUTS IN THE NHS LOBBY the Labour Party Conference DEMAND the implementation of Composite TUESDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 12-2 p.m.
Blackpool Winter Gardens Conference Hall Sunday 26 September, 4.30pm ember, 5.15pm.
RACISM Egerton Rooms), North Promenade, Tuesday organised by Red Weekly Thursday 30 September, 6.00pm HEALTH:
pipeline, and more nurses. regional million.
'Hear the other side of the argument', organised speaker Alex Neil Scottish Labour Party. Kings station), November! , organised by Berwick and East Lothian CLP, speakers include Alex Kitson Trades Club, Chadwick Street, Tuesday 28 Sept'Race Relations: What Must be Done', organised by Labour Race Relations Action Group, with Alex Chair. Imperial Hotel (Warbeck and Racism', twenty-one ipporters in the Labour Faced with the operating theatres such as the ones at Walsall General where pours through the roof and walls when it In stark contrast to the plight of the NHS, it has been estimated that well over £150 million is immediately available for investment in private hospitals and clinics. Sixty private hospitals are in of which have already received planning permission. Private practice sees rich pickings to be made out of Labour's dismantling of the 2. Cutting Staffing Levels vices.
Dear Pupil Nurse: The financial position is such that it will not be possible to continue to employ you in the district once your training is completed....."
Letters like this one, sent out recently to 90 trainee nurses in Liverpool, are dropping into the letter-boxes of more In last nine months, the number of trained nurses on the dole has more than doubled. Yet at the same time the health service is crying out for more staff.
Last summer the Surrey Area Health Authority asked for an extra £2 million to employ the thousand nurses needed to bring the staffing levels in its hospitals up to those for "safe care'. In line with Labour's policy, the reply from the planners was a cut of f2 An example of the extent of the cuts in staff now being demanded comes from Hackney in East London where management last week announced that 400 jobs were to be axed in the area by 'Keep patients out of the hospitals' is the theme of this prong of the DHSS's strategy. The care of these 'priorities' is to be mainly provided by the community health services.
But these have been starved of funds for years. There are only 4,500 residential places for the mentally ill, although over 25,000 patients could be released from incarceration in mental hospitals if such places were available. One AHA in south London admitted that 'few if any areas will reach the desirable levels of staffing' in the community health serThe solution for the DHSS is to pass the burden of care for the sick and convalescents onto working class families and particularly women. The often forgotten aunts and grandmothers are to provide the cure the Labour Government refuses to fund.
'We have to choose in the short-term between hospitals and factories. For the time being we cannot do justice to both —we have got to put factories first.' So said Leslie Huckfield, Under-Secretary of State for Industry.
In other words, this Labour Government is prepared to sacrifice the health care of millions of working people to boost the profits of the bankers, financiers and industrialists. This is no matter of "belt-tightening' but of misery, pain and death. It is clear that the Healeys, Callaghans and Ennalses of the Labour and trade union movement will deliver on all the calls for working class blood made by the present day Rothschilds and Rockerfellers.
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