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    I'm furious about my squandered nation.

    Saturday, November 03, 2007

    National Health Service Worekrs Fight Back against long ago hatched Thatcherite Plot

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    Doctors, midwives, nurses, cleaners and technicians were among the thousands who marched through the capital as part of the I Love the NHS campaign, which concluded in Trafalgar Square.
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    "Staff working in the health service are proud of the jobs they do and are totally committed to improving patient care and the services in the hospitals in which they work," he said.

    "But recent recruitment freezes and redundancies are leaving health employees with bigger workloads and unpaid overtime is increasingly becoming the norm."

    Addressing demonstrators today, TUC president David Prentice said that health workers would not allow the NHS to be "sold off to private companies on the altar of profit".

    And in a video message, mayor of London Ken Livingstone revealed that he regarded the NHS as the "single most important social advance of my lifetime"

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