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From The Socialist newspaper, 25 January 2012
Llanelli: Save Prince Philip's A&E
Rob Owen
In Llanelli, south west Wales, the threatened closure of Prince Philip accident and emergency unit will not be accepted without a fight.
The proposals will put more strain on other hospitals and see a worse service for people in Llanelli, Carmarthen and Swansea.
The cutting of hospital services is an attempt to provide lower quality health treatment on the cheap. Community based treatment could be supported if it was properly funded and in place before hospital reconfiguration, with no job losses.
Instead, reconfiguration plans will follow the fate of the underfunded mental health care in the community, where vulnerable patients have been left isolated.
Already the NHS in Wales is struggling. In September, 33,312 people in Wales had been waiting for six months or more for hospital treatment. This figure is set to soar as more cuts begin to bite.
Llanelli and West Wales Socialist Party, alongside Llanelli Against the Cuts, has been campaigning against all cuts, from Westminster, Cardiff and Carmarthenshire administrations.
The health cuts have to be fought, but they also need to be linked into the fight against all public sector cuts. A united struggle mobilising the growing anger developing can succeed in forcing health boards, local authorities and governments to back down over their cuts agenda.
- No to the proposed cuts at Prince Philip hospital
- Stop the Welsh government cutbacks in the NHS!
- Get private profiteers out of our health service
- Make the billionaire bankers pay for their crisis!
A Socialist Party public meeting on 31 January at 7.30pm in Stamps, John Street will be followed by a demonstration organised by Llanelli trades council on 11 February at 11am, gathering at Llanelli town hall.
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In The Socialist 25 January 2012:
Anti-cuts campaign
Hard Times - but not for the 1%
Socialist Party editorial
Add your name to the TUSC petition
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition election conference
Socialist Party news and analysis
Public sector pensions: 'Coalition of the willing' gathering strength
Financial vultures kill Peacocks
Fight the Tories' Welfare Reform Bill
Victory against Dorries' abstinence education bill
Keep the racist EDL out of Leicester
Education
Haringey parents say: No to academies!
NUS calls national student walkout
Socialist Party feature
Balfour Beatty re-ballot: Vote to strike again
Sweetheart stitch-ups in the electrical industry: A spark's history of the Joint Industry Board
Exposed - the dirty world of the construction blacklist
International socialist news and analysis
Egypt - A year of revolution and counter-revolution
Socialist Party workplace news
Stepping up the action to defend pensions at Unilever
Defend Len Hockey: Outrageous attack on Whipps Cross hospital workers
Pontefract hospital: Army withdrawn - now kick out PFI!
Llanelli: Save Prince Philip's A&E
Stop the Salford day centre closures
Kirklees parents say 'save our children's centres!'
Greenwich Unite members oppose cuts, privatisation and racism
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