EPSOM SHIELER A MATTER OF LIFER DEATH

Socialist Resistance no42 | page 4-5

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All of the constraints have fallen on the public sector: all the growth is in the private sector.

That's why NHS trusts like Ipswich, which once sweated to reduce waiting lists and waiting times, are now being forced to drive them back up again, or face fines and penalties from indebted primary care trusts.

It's all gone horribly wrong, leaving a dozen ministers -and dozens more local communities - supporting local campaigns against the consequences of the "reforms" endorsed by Tony Blair.

In 2005 New Labour were reinventing failure in health policy: now with their own Starship Enterprise they are exploring new dimensions in failure, with patchwork privatisation at the centre of policies that have managed to be both more expensive and more unpopular than ever before.

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