A new network...
Keep The NHS Public is the name of a new genuine grassroots campaign group which aims to fight the ongoing privatisation and commercialiisation of the NHS and keep the profiteers out. It has support fom many NHS professionals, academics, union branches, etc: at the moment, it does not seem to be dominated by any one group, though of course that could change. It appears to have started purely as an online inititaive, but is really taking off across the country. Imo, the NHS for all its faults, (its not very good on chronic illness for instance) is still the the 'jewel in the crown' and worth defending. Though, in defending it, we should also be aware of some of its deficiencies, otherwise we can look like we are just on the side of the producers, the unions, doctors, our detractors would then use this as ammunition to rubbish the campaign.
btw, are there any NHS workers on the boards or are they (probably) too busy
'Across England NHS patients and local communities have been linking up with nurses, doctors and other health care workers to meet, march, protest and lobby as they fight to stop further closures and cuts in local NHS services.
Beds, wards and even whole hospitals are closing down. 30 community hospitals are under threat. Newly qualified nurses and other health professionals are finding no jobs in the NHS, and thousands more health workers' jobs are being axed.But alongside the cuts, an unprecedented process of privatisation is under way: vital services and precious NHS resources are being handed over to the private sector, including companies run for profit for shareholders here and overseas.
Now is the time to fight back to Keep Our NHS Public!'
http://www.keepournhspublic.com/index.php
Keep The NHS Public is the name of a new genuine grassroots campaign group which aims to fight the ongoing privatisation and commercialiisation of the NHS and keep the profiteers out. It has support fom many NHS professionals, academics, union branches, etc: at the moment, it does not seem to be dominated by any one group, though of course that could change. It appears to have started purely as an online inititaive, but is really taking off across the country. Imo, the NHS for all its faults, (its not very good on chronic illness for instance) is still the the 'jewel in the crown' and worth defending. Though, in defending it, we should also be aware of some of its deficiencies, otherwise we can look like we are just on the side of the producers, the unions, doctors, our detractors would then use this as ammunition to rubbish the campaign.
btw, are there any NHS workers on the boards or are they (probably) too busy
'Across England NHS patients and local communities have been linking up with nurses, doctors and other health care workers to meet, march, protest and lobby as they fight to stop further closures and cuts in local NHS services.
Beds, wards and even whole hospitals are closing down. 30 community hospitals are under threat. Newly qualified nurses and other health professionals are finding no jobs in the NHS, and thousands more health workers' jobs are being axed.But alongside the cuts, an unprecedented process of privatisation is under way: vital services and precious NHS resources are being handed over to the private sector, including companies run for profit for shareholders here and overseas.
Now is the time to fight back to Keep Our NHS Public!'
http://www.keepournhspublic.com/index.php
Never, put you down as a nudie basher dennisr!
). I hope that's what we see emerging here (not a top-down lash up between MP's/union bosses etc.)
