NHS - Lobby of Parliament

Socialist Resistance no39 | page 5-6

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1st November -11am onwards only chance local people have to stop brutal blows being struck at the fabric of their local health services.

So far relatively few campaigns have succeeded in getting through the thick skull of Patricia Hewitt and her fanatical team of privatisers: but a recent issue of the manageHealth Service ment weeky Journal offered an explanation for this: a survey of the 50 most influential people in the NHS, drawn up by a panel of exper ooservers concluded that Hewitt was only Number Two - and that the most crucial person was Paul Corrigan — a ooscute marke mona mentalist advisor to lonv Blair and Alan Milburn.

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