Hackney Socialist Unity Summer 2006

Blair invites big business to take over the NHS

by Robin Sivapalan Health Secretary Hewitt says the NHS will benefit from pain and instability. The picture for Hackney: Homerton Hospital has a £7million shortfall – not because of financial mismanagement, but because of changes to the national tariff before the start of the financial year. Barts and the London, relied upon by Hackney residents for cardiac and cancer care, is set to lose £30million. City and Hackney Primary Care Trust, which provides local community services like health visiting and district nursing, has already lost around £13 million through a government initiative called...

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