National Delegate Conference 19-22 June 2007

October demo against NHS marketisation

Conference gave overwhelming support to a strategy to build broad alliances to combat the marketisation of the NHS. It also heard that UNISON has taken the lead in organising a National Demonstration in London on 13 October this year.

Lilian Macer, speaking on behalf of the Health Service Group Executive, slammed the artificial creation of a competitive, commercial market in the National Health Service. These shameful practices are a complete reversal of what the NHS was created to achieve, which was to make health a right and not something to be bought and sold," she said, calling on all activists to turn out in force on 13 October.

In the same debate, Marie Garrity, Glasgow Health, urged conference to also keep up the pressure against Tory plans for the NHS.

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