Defending London's Hospitals

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at the conference: The Resource Allocation Working

of Health proposals seek to play the arguing that on doi n o by arguing that comparison

areas up to London's standards, the Deprive di area suc s ho ast proposed

12 per cent and community health workers by seven percent The conference would have none

and in favour of hospital inflation rises. The delegates also supported

scale to pace with inflation. URGENT

Union of Public Employees. The conference overwhelmingly

Party-dominated Hospital Worker which implied that the only solu- attend

SELF-DETERMINATION defy Parliamentary legality on these questions as well?