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MCAPP was set up last year by health health service is now dangeroudy near to over the years their own bener t It is the working class who are now services, Including the NHS, are a part of outsile The NEES.
We believe that good medical care should be freely available as a basic right provide it. Thene is a drastic lack of salt ers of this country.
Messages of support should be a member of the IMG working class lose out with a very inferior medical seevice. Unless privale practice is thrown our completely in this country, the NES will bo stranced.
What sort of effect is private practice having at the moment?
In purely mone erns, amate pat bents do parasite on the NIS, because they don't pay out the full cust of treat ment they receive in NHS haspitals. And the C12 million that was collected from them last year went straight into the Exchequer, and not into the NHS badBut the reatly barmstul thine about povate practice is the way it distorts the use of the available respances in the health bid a good basis toe trade unioniss to service, in terms of staff and equipment. a die unca ta tae promanic areas of medicine, regardiess of the medical needs of the majority of patients. And of course this brings up the question of the way in which the 6,000 or so partsm consurants. and make the money out of private practice, use thei powerful positions to manipulate the NHS for What do you think about the Lab our Government's position?
It's also obrious that Labour has so intention of stopping private practice They are using the phasing out of NHS pay beds as a token esture Towards secpile their side of the sucial contract. But they kiow perfeetty well that the tie years they lsve allowed Jor this gives private fris plenty of time to build up huspitals outside. Moreover Tabour hasn't even restored the # million Tory cutbacks. let alone ted to intorove toe NHS tor the work What sort of things has MCAPP been doing then about the NHS situation?
prove the NHS is for all soctions of the trade union movement lo work together. 2nd as a start, end a porare preno Hospital workeis are already baring private palionis ir, many areas But it will only be when off worker calise the importance of defending their health service that we call gil rid of private medicine completely, For instance fast week one of us spoke to mut work. to boycott mear supplies to private hees. What do you see as the important things to take up after the demon stration?
I think that the publicity and mobil isation for the demonstration wil have lake up the issue of the defence of the health services in their local areas know several trades councils are planning public meetinies on the crisis 10 the NHS in Un Al these meetings, a plan of action can oe worked out for that area, and some sort ul sition committee clected to co-ardinate a local cantpaign, lE might he a campaigs to fight the closure of' a hospilal, or prevent a private clinic beiar heilt, or to ger better abortion facilities for woned, or waterer. The important Thing is that all workers should be int olved, not just health workers. What is MCAPP planning in the next few months!
We are hoping to organise a workag oference" at the and of Jone, together , with labour movement organisations taking these kinds of initiatices. This asE he a fucther stage an balding a really Shone campuign ta wark for a decent health service which procides for workers needs, cot the decrenit one we have to put up with now. What we should he aring for is an NilS that gives everyone the sort of service that you only get now it you can alford to he a provate SUBSCRIPIION RATES:
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