Health workers in Greenock, Scotland nave been recommended not to cooperate with management in any NHS cuts and to demand the opening of all Health Service books for trade union inspection. This excellent initiative is reported in the latest issue of Health Services, newspaper of the Confederation of Health Service empiovees. An action committee to run the campaign was set up at a 400-strong rally in Greenock last month, and aims to help form similar committees to defend the NHS right across Scotland.
Health Services also reports on the discovery of a secret management document by health service trade unionists in Oxford. The document, it implemented, CENTRAL LONDON COMMITTEE would hit particularly hard at the health or women and chioren these vital services the Oxford health workers have now set up a joint trade union action committee which necit first public meeting - attended by more than 200 people - on 12 January.
Oxford is being repeated at the Middlewood Psychiatric Hospital in Sheffield. According to local Labour MP Joan Mavnard a shortace of eu nurses at the hospital has resulted in patients frequentThe contraction of the NHS will obviously not mean a cut in the profits of the arus monopones!
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