Ealing AHA holds back
Socialist Press1979 1979-10-31Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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West London's Ealing, Hounslow and decided at a meeting on 24 October to postpone cuts of £3.7 million from the Health Budget.
In practice, this means that services this year are to be pruned' by some £350,000, while the commitment to drastically reduce the budget by 1981 will be honoured.
The immediate importance of the decision is that 3 hospitals in the West London area are for the while saved from the axe; as are several specialist units which were also immediately threatened.
The question will, of course, be decided ultimately by the strength of national resistance to health cuts which in itself will be decided not by non-elected rump AHAs but by the unions in a local area giving a firm lead to the struggle.
NOT HIM!— YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD HIM AT THE LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE... HE EVEN SHOUTED OUT "LET A WORKER SPEAK!")
BUT HE ONLY ALRIGHT, BUT THEN HEWENT MEANT HIMSELF! ABOUT OPENING B.S.C'S BOOK.
.HE MUST BE DEMENTED! 'WELL I STILL DON'T THINK HE'S A SAFE ENOUGH BET- HOW ABOUT FENNER BROCKWAY... OR CANNON COLLINS... OR MAYBE PRINCE CHARLES AGAIN?