'Protect the Patients March' NHS Nursing / Unison March against job cuts Pics 1

'Protect the Patients March' NHS Nursing / Unison March against job cuts to NHS staff, services and beds in the East Midlands.

Met at the Forest Ground between 10.00 - 11.00am on Saturday

Perhaps a couple of thousand folks, turned out to support the health service workers in their continued

fight to keep nursing and ancillary service jobs from the axe. The demonstration called by Unison and

the RCN, supported by many other trade unionest, supports and patients, [after all, the end uses of the

service], marched from the Forest Ground, into the city, and onto a rally at the Albert Hall, where they

listened to assorted speakers on the issues of concern.


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Keep Nurses Working Keep Patients Safe Petition from the RCN:

We the undersigned call on Tony Blair to:

Halt the short term fix of service cuts and redundancy and to implement a long term deficits recovery

programme.
Acknowledge that deficits are not simply the result of problems at the local level but that central

government policies and reforms have also played their part.

Please sign at:  http://www.rcn.org.uk/petition

It will be delivered to Downing Street on the 9th October.


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Royal College of Nursing  http://www.rcn.org.uk

Unison [east Mid]  http://www.unisoneast-midlands.org.uk


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