dog which would wag the public Many right-wingers and leaders of the Labour Party oppose even the limited 'Henn Plan, claiming Thut the old socialist demand for nstionalisation is now 'out of date'. They say that now industry can he brought under control without nationalising Bean, whether he thinks that or not, certainly gives support to these idens by the talk in his proposals of "consultation" and (a key word this), "indicutive planning What this amounts to is an attempt to plan the conorny without abolishing capilalism itself. It is totally untelisable - as an xammation of the so called planning" mechanisnis of capitalism shows.
The first method which capitalist "planners' have attempred to use to overcome capitalist economic anarchy is the method of simple persuasion. This 'technique is a complete fraud. What occurs is simply that the employ ers say what they are going to do anyway, and the Government more or less Just writes that down on a piece of paper and calls it a 'plan, Even the economists of the capitalist class have to admie this. Top capitalist coonomist Andrew Shonfield, for example, has said in his book Modern Capitalimm' that French economic "planning was mainly of use to, The lange corporations who are interested in planning as a means of reducing the uncertainties of investment'. He adiled bluntly: "The Plan reflects, Exactly the same was the case PRODUCTIVITY DEALS MEAN cheapening labour costs und increas ing exploitution. For health workers in particular this has meant a severe and often intolerable increase in their work-load.
Faster turnround of patients means a greater strain on nurses, ancillary workers. and technical stalt. The work of both nurses and ward orderlies has become more demanding as the need for patients to have more attention increases. Their responsibilities have also grown as they more and more have to monitor equipment.
COSTS
The swelling costs of running exacerbated by inflation has intensified the drive to increase productivity. The 1968 PIB report on nurses cynically commented that there was "no overall shortage of mursing staff and recommended improved allocation, training and utilisation of the existing workforce.' Their two reports on NIS ancillary workers recommended a productivity deal involving job evaduation and measured day-work. Their ai to cut an already overworked labour force-was made clear when they recommended more representation of workers to cope with "the delicare problems which will arise when manpower is being redacod.' It is the continuing
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