A socialist programme for the NHS
- Bring the NHS into public ownership and rebuild it as a publicly funded service free at the point of use, with immediate cash to end the crisis of under-funding.
- Remove the trusts, abolish the internal market. Representatives of NHS workers, trade unions and health service users should make decisions about how the NHS is run and what its priorities are.
- No to health privatisation and 'the market'.
- Abandon the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). No more profiteering by construction companies and banks. All new hospitals to be built with public funding, not for private profit. They should also use direct labour.
- Nationalise the pharmaceutical industry, the pharmacy chains and medical supply industry under working-class control and management to end the massive subsidy these parasites drain from the NHS. Integrate these services into a democratically controlled NHS.
- A socialist programme to eliminate poverty and inequality - the biggest killer and cause of ill-health.
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In The Socialist 26 October 2006:
Unite and fight to save the NHS
The battle to defend the health service
How can we build an effective campaign to defend the NHS?
A socialist programme for the NHS
Protests force partial retreat from cuts
Marching for the NHS in Torquay
"Action to defend our birthright"
Sack the bosses not the nurses
Socialist Students
No to attacks on democratic rights
Chilean students fight Pinochet's legacy
Socialism 2006
Workplace analysis
How can the trade unions regain their strength?
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
'Single status' battle continues
How to build a trade union in your workplace
Furious parents turn on councillors
War and terrorism
Bloody chaos in Iraq shatters US war strategy
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