Royal tour of NHS cuts
Socialist Press1978 1978-11-22Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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Free Hospital, Hampstead.
But it was closed to patients. Instead that well known patron of the National Health Service, Elizabeth Windsor paid a visit to the lavishly decorated wards, to mark the official opening of the hospital.
Closed circuit television was laid on to provide pictures of the Queen and Health Service slasher David Ennals to the 95% of the staff not able to see them.
Parasites
No sooner was this troupe of parasites out of the hospital than the cuts resumed in that very area-with 500 açute beds Today to be axed by the Camden and Islington Area Health Authority including cutbacks at the Royal Free itself!
Meanwhile the West London Hospital in Hammersmith, there was . another management attempt • to victimise the leadership of the NUPE branch-the only branch which embarked on indefinite strike action at the time of the raid on the Hounslow Hospital.
There has been a long-running dispute over the introduction of a clocking-in system.
Management deliberately provoked confrontation, which resulted in the central heating system being shut off.
Management then sat about a well prepared plan of evacuating all the patients-mainly maternity cases-to the nearby Western Hospital.
This was accompanied according to plan, with a major witch-hunt on the branch leadership in the local and national press.
Although this dispute was temporarily settled by referring it to ACAS, management will be sure to renew their attacks on this branch-and alt other militant branches, in order to clear the way for more cuts and redundancies.
Protected
The West London Hospital branch must be protected by all trade unionists-and not by use of ACAS or the bourgeois courts, much favoured by NUPE full time officials.
London health workers can only be protected by the building of a completely independnet all-London joint shop stewards committee, which can link together these separate disputes and coordinate action against the cuts and in defence of jobs and work conditions throughout the London Health Service, ACTION ON LOW PAY All London Coordinating Conference Saturday 9 December at 2 p.m.
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