5 January 2006

'Reforms' destroying the National Health Service

FOUNDATION HOSPITALS are one of many NHS 'reforms' backed by New Labour. When they were set up, NHS unions and health campaigners called foundation hospitals divisive and a 'dagger at the heart of the NHS'...

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11 October 2003

Foundation Hospitals: An Attack on the Heart of the NHS

IN SPITE of their plans for foundation hospitals being rejected by the Labour Party conference, the government is still going ahead...

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4 October 2003

Blair On The Ropes

Iraq, foundation hospitals, top-up tuition fees...: TONY BLAIR says he's feeling "battered". And so he should...

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17 May 2003

New Labour and the Unions: Time To Make The Break

CLARE SHORT left Blair's cabinet with a bang. Her resignation speech contained a withering attack on the "control freakery" of the Blairite "clique" at the top of the party and Blair's "presidential"...

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10 May 2003

No To Foundation Hospitals

YES to good quality health care for all: AS A UNISON steward I oppose Labour's plan to create foundation hospitals. This is merely privatisation by the back door and will lead to a two-tier health service, writes John Malcolm, assistant branch secretary, UNISON North Tees mental health, personal capacity.

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12 April 2003

Privatising The NHS

NEW LABOUR'S latest scheme for health service privatisation - Foundation Hospitals - is being pushed ahead in spite of significant opposition from the parliamentary Labour Party's own ranks, writes Alison Hill.

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