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Socialist Challenge No. 262, 25 September 1982 · pp. 3-4 of the scan · 425 words

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1968-70 England and Wales 11.0 16.1 Scotland excluding Grampian 12.8 conditions for the health workers, cuts in service and private medicine there are opportunities for increased understanding of the nature of the health service, and ways of creating a better health serThe users and workers in The the NHS have to collectively develop a plan for a health service to meet our needs as health women, black people, old people, disabled people and ding cuts week One possible structure • Establish for all interested organisa- clinics tions is the Socialist Health Association which is open NHS to all and affiliated to the Labour Party and which is advertising 1971-73 1974-76 13.7 13.9 13.9 13.6 16.5 in the process of developing a Charter for Health.

Nationally we have to unite to fight the Tories' plans tor dismantling the health service and the unity of the labour movement behind the health workers fight shows the way next Labour government must make sure that it does not sell out on in the way that Wilson and Callaghan did by encouraging the growth of private medicine and introducing devastating cuts in public spending.

We should demand that Labour government would immediately; • Reverse the public spenminimum wage of e100 pal • Establish legal • Abolish private medicine out-patient • Ban race checks in the • Ban alcohol and tobacco • Strengthen health and safety at work regulations In its first term of oftice Labour government should also organise the health service to make it more democratic.

One suggestion is that the NHS should be run by bodies composed of local authority and trade union representatives as well as representatives women's organisations and minority groups.

But it will require more than a democratic and accountable NHS to improve our health. It will involve radical measures to end unemployment, bad hous ing, poverty, poor diet and unsafe working conditions Good health will only be guaranteed when our resources are controlled by working people and the oppressed.

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