Unite 4 our NHS
The new ConDem Government is
committed to slashing public spending and accelerating and
implementing privatisation on a scale we haven't seen before and
Unite believes that the policies of this Government threaten to
destroy the NHS that we have always been so proud of.
The Unite 4 OUR
NHS campaign has been launched to oppose the cuts
and privatisations in the NHS and fight to protect NHS workers
terms and conditions and pensions. Unite's campaigning has
had a huge impact locally and nationally in both halting and
slowing down threatened NHS privatisations and we must continue to
support our activists in their local campaigns fighting the
break-up and fragmentation of our NHS.
We want a reversal of the
damaging competitive market that exists in England, that pits
health services against one another - instead in the forthcoming
White Paper we are threatened with the disbanding of Strategic
Health Authorities and the bulk of the NHS budget being handed over
to private companies to spend and profit from through 'GP
commissioning'. Even the NHS Confederation has described this as
"potentially the biggest change in the history of the NHS".
Unite believes that the
NHS should be a comprehensive, universal service publically
funded and accountable and managed as a public service for the
benefit of all. This world class organisation should not be carved
up for the benefit of private profit and now is the time for us to
fight for our National Health Service, to ensure that it will be
there for future generations.
Barrie Brown, Unite Health Sector lead officer for
nursing - comment in Unite/CPHVA Community Practitioner
journal - download
here.
Join our campaign and send the message loud and clear to
the government – Don’t destroy our NHS!
Please take one minute to send a letter or an email
to your MP, telling them why you are opposed to the White Paper and
why they should be too, as these changes will mean:
- More wasteful bureaucracy – not less
- Less money for treating patients
- More money into the profits of private healthcare
companies
- More inequity of a postcode lottery on healthcare services
Just visit http://unite.newsweaver.co.uk/uk/sd4ajuc3s87tn6uxnscltd–
you can send an email directly from this link using the bullet
points above.
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