How to fight Private Practice The working class must have an alternative solution to that piven by the Labour Govemment, whose atly.

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•Hospital workers should immediately set up action comm tees or act through existing joint shop stewards committees to organise to ban all services to the consultants in administ rative, portering and domestic services, and apply bans on private patients.

*These committoos, together with the local labour move ment, should fight the autonomy of the consultants. They should exercise veto powers over medical executive comm ittee decisions with reperd to the priorities of the heeith ser vice bulling programmes, equipment, specialised servicin, atc.- but without taking any responsibility for the lack of resources availabie •Working class organisetions should insist that local coun cils refuse planning permission for private hospitall, and org anise pickets of existing proste hospitals to demend that the bods be turned aver for the use of the NHS *flocal authorities allow planning perminior, as has happ ened in Loade, then the trade anions in the ares should put an servicing.

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DO YOU THINK SHE'LL DON'T BE DAFT embargo on all work connected with their constraction and *Established bodies should set up a workers" enquiry into the local health service —lia sing with the local point shop stew arts committees in the hospitals, working out the priorities for the ares, and arganising action against closures of any hos Taste neur get shut a raise That the Labour Government abolishes private practice complcteiy, both inside and gutside the NAS, now, It is already official TUC palicy, as well as thet of NALGO and NUPE, tb appose sil forms of private practioe. The working class moust ensure that these policies are imp amentsel 2. The immediate injection of E1,500 millen into the NHS simply to meet immediate neers 3. A sliding spale of NHS expenditum j.e. an automatie percentage increase in the NHS pudget to cover the effoess of OH MAGGIE IS SHET I CAN'T TELL FROM THIS DISTRUE RADIANT AS EVER FOREIGN:

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(Millant answer is to allow the private sector to grow at the expense of the NHS.