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Hospital Trusts on Merseyside are beginning to set out their plans for cuts in the National Health Service. The overwhelming majority of people rely on the NHS for healthcare, so the changes being made seem set to threaten the lives of many, and severely reduce the quality of life for many more. The only people to benefit will be shareholders in private companies.
Liverpool Indymedia reports: FTSE 100 company to 'help' run Liverpool hospital | Wirral NHS Cuts Boost Private Sector | Mersey Ambulance Staff Fight Employers' Hypocrisy | More McHospitals for Merseyside! | Patients Must Travel Further To See GPs | Private GP Surgery criticised in Liverpool | Patients Dying To Balance Books in Southport and Ormskirk|
Read more >>Public meeting in Liverpool calls for local campaign to save NHS services.
“The vast majority of people in the NHS are appalled at what’s going on. There’s £1 billion+ going into PFI (Private Finance Initiative) schemes on Merseyside, but there are always going to be cuts in services under this type of scheme. The drive to privatise the NHS is all about Blair’s flirtation with Bush, and the market economy.”
So said Dr Alex Scott-Samuel, speaking at the ‘Keep Our NHS Public’, a meeting of between 60-70 people held at the Friends Meeting House, Liverpool, on Thursday 24th November.
Read more >>Liverpool Health Feature Archive >>
Chernobyl Day Event - Saturday 26th April 1pm
23-04-2008 19:31
Pavilion asbestos scandal
14-04-2008 15:28
Interviews from the top of Rath Lugh (March 2008)
28-03-2008 21:25
Re Secretary of State for Health Alan Johnson's release on water fluoridation
06-02-2008 20:59
Liverpool Blood Service 'At Threat' From Own Workers!
26-01-2008 18:33
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IWW commence build-up to major assault on NBS bosses
10-12-2007 06:52
IWW Launches Second Phase of National Campaign
07-12-2007 12:58
Buses To Karen Reissman Demo In Manchester
14-11-2007 04:26
NHS whistleblower Stands Up for Journalism
26-10-2007 15:56
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Keep Our NHS Public - Liverpool public meeting 18th Oct
08-10-2007 11:07
Liverpool NHS Meeting
14-08-2007 16:33
'Liverpool Care Slaves' To Strike?
09-06-2007 19:27
Call for a Public Enquiry - Just sign and send!!!
05-06-2007 22:52
Support Blood Service workers! - IWW leaflet
13-04-2007 13:27
Privatising the NHS
02-04-2007 23:12
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Demo against the privatization of the NHS, in Preston
04-03-2007 11:29
Rally in support of striking mental health workers
27-02-2007 14:51
NHS Under Attack
26-02-2007 21:09
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Save the NHS! Organise for Resistance!
24-02-2007 23:32
Weed contamination
14-02-2007 14:53
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Torchlit March for NHS 22 February Liverpool
11-02-2007 01:54
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Defend Public Health March in Liverpool
02-02-2007 19:15
Advertising Cancer Infects NHS
09-01-2007 19:46
NHS Blood Workers See Red
29-11-2006 10:20
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BNFL MOX Shipment - 22nd November 2006
17-11-2006 18:14
Another corporate beast behind 'NHS Logistics' privatisation
09-10-2006 15:28
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critical mass manchester took the roads!
30-09-2006 12:49
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£50m Cuts To Liverpool Children's Hospital
27-09-2006 17:26
200 NHS Staff Walk Out In Runcorn
22-09-2006 20:40
NHS Privatisations Rouse Sleeping Giant
21-09-2006 14:13
Maghull Meeting Debates NHS Sell-Off
14-09-2006 22:04
Consultants ripping off NHS
13-09-2006 12:54
Critical Mass End of Summer Party
12-09-2006 17:50
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No waste lorries, one arrest, two protesters and three police cars
09-09-2006 19:17
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Keep Our NHS Public meeting in Merseyside
06-09-2006 11:30
The NHS? We'll Take It From Here!
05-09-2006 21:16
Tasers ? / Or Deadly Electronic Weapons
21-08-2006 00:36
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Three Day Strike For Merseyside Ambulance Workers
14-08-2006 17:26
Bosses Adopt Bullying Tactics Against Striking Ambulance Workers
10-08-2006 18:03
Spare Beds Seen as Problem in Chester Foundation Hospital
04-08-2006 19:46
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More McHospitals for Merseyside! (part 2)
02-08-2006 17:25
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48 Hour Ambulance Strike This Weekend!
25-07-2006 20:25
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Angry hospital staff protest in Southport
18-07-2006 17:55
Merseyside Ambulance Staff in Second 24hr Strike
17-07-2006 15:06
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Hospital Staff Protest In Southport and Ormskirk
13-07-2006 20:35
Ambulance Staff Strike Back
13-07-2006 18:08
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Mersey Ambulance Strike More Likely
11-07-2006 13:30
Patients Dying To Balance Books in Southport and Ormskirk
07-07-2006 13:39
Shit Treatment for Bootle Civil Servants
28-06-2006 10:01
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Private GP surgery criticised in Liverpool
26-06-2006 20:33
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Liverpool Care Home Crisis Grows
26-06-2006 20:19
Defend NHS Demo - Victoria Station 11:30 June 24th
21-06-2006 14:52
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Patients Must Travel Further To See GPs
16-06-2006 22:33
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Keep Our NHS Public Demo & Meeting
13-06-2006 12:03
More McHospitals for Merseyside!
12-06-2006 17:46
Mersey Ambulance Staff Fight Employers' Hypocrisy
08-06-2006 15:29
Wirral NHS Cuts Boost Private Sector
08-06-2006 14:48
FTSE 100 company to 'help' run Liverpool hospital
07-06-2006 15:54
Hospital workers going unpaid in Liverpool
19-05-2006 18:17
Bogus Aspartame Study Exposed by Experts
14-04-2006 05:43
Connections - a Day of Protest in Liverpool
15-03-2006 15:58
obsessive compulsive disorder
06-03-2006 07:36
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Human roadblock in protest against special needs school closures
09-12-2005 18:27
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Nerve 7 Launched in Liverpool
26-11-2005 15:01
Group calls on NIH to remove Harvard professor from fluoride-cancer study
28-07-2005 19:23
Soteria Network Meeting in Burnley Lancashire 26th October 2005
27-07-2005 04:22
Sustainable Technologies for eradicating Hunger and for Real economic Progress
27-06-2005 21:51
Liverpool Critical Mass this friday 29/4
28-04-2005 14:30
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Manchester Kissit Demo 14th July 2005...related articles
13-04-2005 21:01
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St Modwens the destroyer
30-03-2005 16:38
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The Man Made Plagues
24-02-2005 17:28
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Extravaganzamania
14-02-2005 11:11
(International) March on WDC to End AIDS , May 2005
28-01-2005 21:43
Oppose flouridation of our water in Manchester, North West of England
06-12-2004 21:48
Support Liverpool Care Workers!
12-11-2004 13:36
Anti-GM action - 29-30/09/04 - Sainsbury’s Haydock (Merseyside) depot blockaded
30-09-2004 16:12
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ALMO - half way privatisation, Labour government betray council tenants!
04-09-2004 13:28
MICRA march on Town Hall
01-09-2004 14:24
REDS GET STADIUM GO-AHEAD - Echo Jul 30 2004 [IS IT BYE-BYE STANLEY PARK?] )-:
30-07-2004 18:25
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LET US DECIDE - the case for council housing (Liverpool has 21,000 remaining)
30-07-2004 18:00
Interview: Cancer Dr.’s treatment suppressed 20yrs
24-05-2004 18:15
Justice For Tenants - Fighting for working class people in Liverpool!
02-05-2004 14:48
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Council Tenants - Heads we lose, Tail we don't win!
31-01-2004 17:49
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fair chances for child authors with asperger syndrome
09-12-2003 17:15
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Cost of Water to Double!
29-08-2003 16:29
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Liverpool Care Homes 'To Close Doors'
23-08-2003 19:05
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Concert in aid of healthy Africa
18-08-2003 15:58
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Racist Policies within the NHS
11-08-2003 22:57
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