CAMPAIGN NHS


ON THECRITICAL LIST


The Coalition has all but killed the NHS – now it needs intensive care


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Staff are leaving or taking early retirement or having to take sickness retirement as they get burned out


Frances Ridgway


Unite speech and language therapist


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If there’s a Conservative government the NHS will be history


Jackie Applebee Unite GP, London


Who would have ever thought that pathologists would be locked out of their own lab? That ambulance workers would go on strike? That a private equity group would run a hospital?


And yet these are just some of the things that staff have had to fight under the Coalition government.


“There was a clear commitment from the last Labour government to develop and modernise the NHS, which was


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achieved,” explains Unite national officer, Barrie Brown. “There had been the highest levels of patient satisfaction ever recorded. That’s what the Coalition inherited.”


And how that inheritance has been recklessly spent. A&E departments in meltdown with the worst performance since records began. Over three million patients waiting for operations. And NHS staff suffering work-related stress is up by 40 per cent.


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