The following has been supplied by Blackpool Against the Cuts:
Public Meeting is Defence of the NHS
Wednesday 22nd January - 7.30pm
The Ruskin Hotel, Albert Road, Blackpool
Guest speaker: Dr David Wrigley, plus other speakers.
Guest speaker: Dr David Wrigley, plus other speakers.
Please make every effort to attend.
We need your support.
Blackpool against the cuts
The NHS has always been funded by us the tax payer and maintained by generations of health workers.
The Health & Social care act has started to privatise local health care.
Now the NHS is to be parcelled off to private equity companies whose only interest is a healthy profit.
A third of GPs’ on GPp consortia’s are either on the board of private companies or have a conflict of interest.
Huge cuts are closing A&E departments.
Essential and basic services are being undermined across the uk.
The previous government funded new hospitals via PFI so the NHS will have to pay over £50 billion for hospitals worth £8 billion for the next 30 years.
Private sector firms involved in PFI will benefit from a 540% return on initial investments.
The NHS is facing a decrease in funding, staff are facing job cuts, wards are closing and patient are facing delays.
PFI has put a stranglehold on the finances of many hospitals making it difficult to balance their budgets.
This Con-Dem Government is killing our NHS and allowing greedy corporate vultures to feed on the carcass. Don’t let this happen, please come to the meeting and find out how you can help.
