Registered with the For Office as a gewpaper. Published by Reigoerest for Red Weekly, J82 Pentornie Rond, London N.I. (01-837 6954) tee at the Hammersmith hospital is calling on all London hospitals that are taking action against private patients to unite to form an AllLondon Action Committee.
A letter has been sent to these hospitals explaining that the Action Committee's function will be to launch a campaign against both the consultants work-to-rule and private NAME.....
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WOMEN GETTING FLACES AT LAST! THEIR RIGHTFUL Red Weekly 6 February 1975 Page 12 practice in the London area, This more by the Hammersmith stewards is a direct result of the utter failure of the Labour Government to peovide any solution to the crisis in the health service and the reactionary workto-rule by the consultants.
at pey-beds within live years is a sham in London hardly any private beds will he furned over to the NES. The GovernDOMESTIC: E5 per year E2-50p for 6 munths.
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WE'LL HAVE HORE WOMEN STOCK BROK Знment is only phasing out those beds which have less than a 60 percent occopaacy - which means that in the betterofFareas, where private practice thrives, things will po on much as before.
Even then only 20 percent of the beds with less than 60 per cent occupan cy will be turned over to the NHS Furbermors, the period up to 1980 will gre the consultants and the private medical schemes a breathing space in order to develop and expand private medicine outside the NHS.
The health service will bo left in ruins; and the Labour Government is calmly presiding over the collapse.
Workers at the Hammersmith Hosph tal have been banning private patients for severul months, and the Joint Shop Stewardy Commictee has helped to spread the lan to other hospitals by sending out speakers to trade union branch meetings CAMPAIGN Now the task is to launch a campuien to get rid of private practice cath inside and outside the NHS. Self-organisa tion of health workers can start to break the hold of the consultants on the NHS, and at the same time health workers can take up the fight to impose their own solutions to the crisis.
But health workers alone connot win this struggle without involving the whole Labour movement. All sections of the working class must join the campaign the capital crisis This means a co-ordinating body to launch such a curapaign. The call from Hammorsmith can be the first step towards that, An immediate task of the Action Committes will be to build support from the labour novement for the London demonstration on 22 February against the consultants" work-to-rule and private practice Details of demonstration from: Dr. Paul Stern, 55 Bridge Lane, London, N.W.H.
MORE WOMEN JUDGES Printed by Prestomre Era. Reading Berkihire THE DOLE QUEUES Jient around Cheir struggle MICK GOSLING
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