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Why we must unite to oppose the Health and Social Care Bill 2021
Once again market methods are being posed as the solution to the growing NHS and social care crisis, says HELEN O’CONNOR
Health Secretary Sajid Javid during a visit to Westport Care Home in Stepney Green, east London and (below) a health workers’ protest at Downing Street over the measly 3% NHS pay increase
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We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
ANYONE who has worked on the front lines of the NHS delivering services to patients knows that workloads are increasing and pay is not keeping up with the cost of living.
Some will even have been around long enough to remember the false claims that private investment would improve services and being told that carving up NHS services would bring modern and innovative healthcare solutions closer to peoples homes while enabling NHS organisations and their staff to deliver “seamless services.”
What has developed is that the public are faced with a confusing array of services that are further away from the home than ever before and family homes are being traded in for the spiralling costs of privatised care placements.
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