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2 July 2008

Feature: 60 years of the NHS

Feature: IT WILL be 60 years since the NHS was set up on 5 July this year, the crowning glory of the welfare state in Britain, with its promise of an equal, high quality, universal health care...

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17 June 2008

NHS: Polyclinics - Stop this backdoor privatisation

Feature: IN MANY parts of the country, new 'polyclinics' are opening up, replacing established GPs' surgeries. JO SECHER warns that the government's new polyclinics are not "community based health care", and they are certainly not "GP-led surgeries".

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17 June 2008

PFI - a very bad deal for the NHS

IF YOUR local shop had an offer, "one for the price of three", they would not get much trade. Yet that's the kind of deal offered to health trusts by Private Finance Initiative (PFI) consortia on building hospitals...

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11 June 2008

Stop the NHS sell-off

On the 'Save the NHS' march, 3 November 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

On the 'Save the NHS' march, 3 November 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

'Failed' hospitals, polyclinics: WHETHER IT'S Gordon Brown or Tony Blair, New Labour's policy on the NHS remains the same - privatisation. The government took a further step in that direction recently with their announcement that any NHS hospital considered 'a failure' would in the future be run by a private company, writes Roger Davey, chair Swindon and Wiltshire health care Unison branch (personal capacity).

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14 May 2008

NHS under threat

Urgent action needed: JUST WEEKS before the 60th anniversary of the National Health Service, government plans to reorganise and privatise it could mean the end of a health service that is publicly owned and free at the point of use, writes Lois Austin.

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30 April 2008

Stop PFI pirates wrecking our NHS

Coventry Councillor Dave Nellist on NHS demonstration 1st November 2006, photo Paul Mattsson

Coventry Councillor Dave Nellist on NHS demonstration 1st November 2006, photo Paul Mattsson

THE NATIONAL Health Service has its 60th birthday this July. Can working people still celebrate this vital service which they struggled for years to obtain, writes Keith White.

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25 March 2008

Save our hospitals!

HOSPITAL TRUST bosses in south east London have put forward a package of closures and severe cuts to services, writes Roger Shrives, Lewisham Socialist Party.

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1 March 2008

Strike action in public sector

In the immediate period the battle is likely to be concentrated in the public sector...

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20 February 2008

London's health care under further attack

YOU CAN see what the growing gap between the rich and poor means in life and death terms by looking at health care in London... By Chris Newby

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20 February 2008

Hospitals "stacking" patients

THE GOVERNMENT has a long-standing promise that all out-patients are treated within four hours of admission to accident and emergency units...

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