Fight the Cuts
Socialist Press1978 1978-04-05Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 7 →
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Placards but no lead in action to stop the cuts. engineers, not the local AUEW or EETPU lifts branch. Even so they found that the AHA's estimates for repairs were inflated.
In response to the calls for an opening of the books of the Area Health Authority to assess the real costs of the EGA in relation to health needs in the area, and into the profits made out of the NHS, a firm of accountants, acting under the direction of Lord Bowden, a friend of one of the consultants, went through the AHA's accounts for the EGA.
There they found gross overestimates of the running costs for this hospital-estimates of salaries for nearly all staff 50-80% up on true figures; inclusion in the running costs of salaries of individuals who werked most of their time in her hospitals.
Fresh appeals
These and her figures hud been used i argue that the cost per bed at the EGA were too high.
The true figures proved
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