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Sheffield Keep Our NHS Public! meeting

idealist | 12.01.2006 13:04 | Sheffield

Keep the NHS Public is a new nominally grassroots campaign to stop the creeping privatisation of the NHS and to keep it public. they are holding their first meeting in Sheffield on 26th January.

Keep Our NHS Public is a new nominally grassroots campaign to stop the creeping privatisation of the NHS and to keep it public. They are getting support from health workers, consultants, NHS users and many others, they are holding their first meeting in Sheffield on 26th January.

 http://www.keepournhspublic.com/breakingnews.php

One caveat, although KONP is AFAIK not a SWP front, John McDermott (I think) is a member of the SWP, imo, sadly, this campaign will fail like all of theirs if they try to take it over.



Sheffield Keep Our NHS Public!
Meeting

26th January 2005

7.30
Quaker Meeting House
James Row,
(near Sheffield Cathedral, Blue Moon Cafe)

Speakers

Dr John Lister: Keep Our NHS Public, London Health Emergency
John McDermott: Unison NEC
John Campbell: Branch Secretary Northern General Hospital
Unison branch

Chaired by Jenny Cooper NGH Chair Unison







idealist

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Self-serving NHS

16.01.2006 02:49

The NHS is run for the benefit of its employees and not the paying customers. That's why NHS employees want to remain public employees. As the Healthcare Commission said last year

'the health service could often seem to be designed around the needs of the staff rather than the patients'.

I have recent experience of NHS treatment. It was a shambles. The staff know that most customers can't take their business elsewhere and they exploit that. Like all monopolies it is corrupt and rotten to the core.

Simon

A SWP front?

21.01.2006 12:45

I have to say it does look like the SWP are taking over what was once was a very independent campaign, (similar to their involvement with the Campaign Against Climate Change) Googling the list of names of speakers at KONHSP mettings across the country, SWP members are scheduled to speak at all of them. i have no problem in the SWP being involved as one group amongst many, but it looks like they are upto their own tricks again, possible fronts like this are disasterous and may well lose public support.

Perhaps, some members of the SWP can respond to this.

patient