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From the report-backs it was clear that most areas were getting local compaigns off the ground, and the Committee decided to hold a series of regional conferences throughout Britain. A date has already been et in South Wales and meetings are being called in Sheffield, Birmingham, Portsmouth and Southampton in November and December which will launch such conferences. Similar meetings are being set up in other WORKSHOP A speaker from the Co-ordinating Committee will also be leading a workshop on the crisis in the NHS at a conference on 22 November called by the Newcastle Trades Council to discuss Unemployment - Wage Restraint and Public Expenditure Cuts'. Other speakers will include Mick McGahey, President of the Scottish Miners, and former Clay Cross councillor David Skinner.
A speaker from the Co-ordinating Committee will also be addressing the National Abortion Campaign rally in Trafalger Square on 22 November.
The Committee has obtained a series of secret documents listing cuts that are being prepared behind the backs of the trade union and labour movement. It was agreed that the Committee would call a press conference on these documents and publicise this information as widely as possible in the labour movement.
COMMISSION
It was noted that the Labour Government was setting up a Royal Commission on the NHS. The Committee considered that this was nothung more than an attempt to find justifications for further cuts in the NHS, and that only a Workers Enquiry could investigate the real needs of the NHS and its working class patients. The Committee agreed that it would however submit evidence on the crisis and the needs of the NHS to the Commission, which would be circulated to all bodies of the labour movement as a counterposition to the findings of the Commission.
The Committee took a report on A national demonstration against cuts in the NHS and for the complete banning of all private practice both inside and outside the NHS - this was one of the projects agreed at last Saturday's meeting of the National Co-ordinating Committee elected at the 11 October Conference of the Medical Committee Against Priv•the Junior Doctors' dispute and HAMLET appeal to the trade union and labour movement. Copies of this appeal can be obtained from the Secretary, Paul Stern, 55 Bridge Lane, London N.W.11. Badges against cuts in the NHS and against private practice will also be produced, as will car National Co-ordinating Committee's General Secretary, Janet Maguire was elected as Assistant Secretary and National Organiser, and Ernie Roberts was elected as the National Chairperson. Dr Paul Stern was elected as the NEAR-DISASTER AGAINST ROUND BRITAIN
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