-An immediate trade union Inquiry into the NHS. The inquiry to be headed by workers from the health service unions. The inquiry to determine what money is needed each year to expand the NHS into a full and comprehensive - An immediate cash payment of £1,000 million to be made to the NHS, plus monthly payments to fully cover all increases in costs affecting NHS expenditure.
-The election of joint health workers" committees in all hospitals.
These committees to have the right of veto over all decisions affecting their working conditions - Abolition of the Whitley Councils, to be roplaced by direct negotiations between the unions class health are not just attributable to the NHS. The struggles of the working class to improve their wages and conditions have played an enor mous role in improving health standards. This has got a better diet, improved bousing and meant higher standards of hygiene NEW DISEASES But the improvement in real standards has led to new illnesses and discases. There are now more traffie accidents, more lung cancer, more pollution as well as more They neglect to inform people that the work comes from their own laboratories or from research sponsored by the company in a university department. As the writer is invariably boosting his or her own work, the queles will always be favourable, even if not scientifically obWORKERS' CONTROL Massive profits, wasteful and cost ly duplication of research - often concentrating on the least important price tigeing and the diversion of millions of pounds in unnec essary and often fraudulent advertis ing make the struggle to take the drugs industry out of private hands and into workers control an ugent necessity. The demands of Open the Books, Workers Control of the Drugs Companies, Nationalisation of the Drugs Industry are urget ones for the working class and the defence of the Health Service.
Jell King