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Rebuilding the NHS after the pandemic
Coming out of this crisis, the trade union movement will have choices to make about how we can fight for the future of our health service, says HELEN O’CONNOR

DECADES of real-terms funding cuts and outsourcing have combined to undermine and reduce NHS services and demoralise NHS staff. 

The government’s strategy towards the NHS is no accident — it is part of a neoliberal project intended to destroy all the gains made by the working class up to and after the second world war. 

For many years the idea that “private is better than public” has been used as a means to open the doors of the NHS to private businesses. 

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