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The Health and Care Bill needs to be stopped
NHS staff are rising up against a Tory move to open up our health service to privatisation. Join them, support them — or lose the NHS for good, writes HELEN O'CONNOR
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UNIONS across the NHS are at various stages of balloting for strike action. GMB is running a full legal strike ballot and we are urging our members to check their post and vote for industrial action before December 15.
Why is militant action necessary in the NHS? It’s necessary because it is clearer than ever before that the Tories are intent on selling off our NHS for good.
The Health and Care Bill should be called “the privatisation Bill” — if it is implemented, the NHS as we know it will be gone within the next decade or so. The opening up of the NHS to privatisation has been a disaster for both patients and staff. The Bill is now on the third reading and set to become law; this will give the government unparalleled powers to degrade staff roles, outsource more NHS core care services and reduce services.
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