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by local authorities are Ine department Lambeth, Consider these proposals:

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more lor laboratory services. strike visitors can be reduced.

This is THE cuts currently being considered not only inhuman — they are a classic case of CULS false economy, as a detailed study of the cuts being proposed in Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham reveals.

Many of them are simply a case of other SUIT welfare • lant on more. drug. for drugs patients, to save the hospitals' drug GPsto give more family planning advice, to save the expense of family Result:

Other health authorities to pay area's ine use of Localcouncils to take on more Dirts responsibility for the mentally "sick" so that the number of beds and health buck-passing. will increase frustration and misery but without saving government money at all. Worse still, many of the are utterly Consider these examples:

Tougher controls over meals to patients on the ward (i.e. substantial meals). Result: recuperation time.

One Lambeth hospital recently tried to economise on an expensive Result: far more expensive kidney transplant operations had to be done twice.

Fewer beds and longer surgery waiting lists, including abortions.

more women demanding maternity and post-natal facilities.

Fewer family planning clinics. Result: more abortion and maternity required for unwanted Recruit less agency staff. Result: more time wasted hunting through ever more chaotic medical records.

Cut off the heating and ask staff to wear warmer clothes. Result: more colds, more time off, less work done.

The social services have already been cut to the bone. Any further cuts can only be panic measures which, by accelerating breakdown and chaos, will permanently damage the services less thev are supposed to provide longer damage could only be put right by fat greater expenditure in the future The only way to ensure efficient use of resources in the interests of the working class is to fight the cuts NUPE shop stewards in the City and Hackney District have called for a day of action on 13 September and a mass • lobby on that day to demand that the local AHA follow the Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham and reluse to meiement lunder cars NUPE shop stewards Hamlets and Newham are considering taking similar action.

This, action against the cuts, is the sort of acuon neecca lo services from cumulative breakdown.

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