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Keep Gloucestershire's NHS Public Rallies Sat 16th June: Save Our NHS!

@StroudAntiCuts | 30.05.2012 12:05 | Health | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Birmingham | Oxford

The Keep Gloucestershire's NHS Public campaign hit the headlines earlier this year when a legal challange by 76 year old Michael Lloyd, supported by Gloucestershire anti-cuts groups, forced local NHS bosses to stop plans to take community health services out of the NHS and hand them over to a 'community interest company'.
The battle to keep these services out of the hands of private sector health multinationals is not over, however, and co-ordinated county-wide protest rallies are taking place in Gloucestershire on Saturday June 16th.

The Keep Gloucestershire's NHS Public campaign hit the headlines earlier this year when a legal challange by 76 year old Michael Lloyd, supported by Gloucestershire anti-cuts groups, forced local NHS bosses to stop plans to take community health services out of the NHS and hand them over to a 'community interest company', with tendering to the full range of private sector vultures due to happen only 3 years later.

The battle to keep these services out of the hands of private sector health multinationals is not over, however. NHS bosses continue to suggest they may pursue a tendering process, a process which as has resulted in Virgin Care taking over health services in Surrey, and Serco taking over in Cornwall - see: for a mainstream media analysis of the effects, as told by a whistleblower. Indeed, 'expressions of interest' have been sought.

NHS bosses can still decide to hand services to a publicly owned, publicly accountable NHS organisation, but need pressure to ensure they take this decision, and do not privatise services.

Please join the co-ordinated county-wide protest rallies taking place in Gloucestershire on Saturday June 16th. If you can't make it, perhaps you can take solidarity action further afield.

See downloadable A5 flyers (2up on an A4 sheet) and posters (2 pages at A5, which can be blown up to A4 or A3). In colour at present, but a black and white version will appear soon.

Protests have always been part of the campaign - there are lots of reports including photos and videos on the website: keepglosnhspublic.posterous.com. For more up to date info see the twitter feed twitter.com/stroudanticuts.



@StroudAntiCuts
- e-mail: contact@stroudagainstcuts.co.uk
- Homepage: keepglosnhspublic.posterous.com

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that must mean that

31.05.2012 23:15

you want the hospitals owned by the same people that own air craft carriers and bomber jets, nuclear subs and nuclear missiles, the ones that falsify excuses to attack other countries and kill millions of innocent people? Are they really fit to be charged with saving peoples lives in our hospitals?

anon


ownership

08.06.2012 12:27

whereas you'd rather the hospitals were owned by virgin, serco, private equity funded circle or similar? Cos they've got such nice records? And there are no private sector arms companies etc.

TROLOLOLOLOL!

The working class stuggled for access to healthcare for all. Having the NHS given away to private multinationals is not a success for anti-state anarchists...

PP


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