The Conference views with concern the inadequacies of the National Health Service and calls upon the leadership of the Labour and trade union movement to pledge it(a) rejects any cuts in the National Health Service and demands a very substantial immediate increase in health expenditure to recruit new staff, pay adequate wages, provide attractive career structures at all levels, replace outmoded buildings and en sure the provision of an equally high standard of health service facilities throughout the United Kingdom; and believes that in future health expenditure should be linked to price and wage indices to protect the National Health Service from further cuts (b) calls for a fully free National Health Service at the point-of-use with complete c) welcomes tne proposed removal of private practice trom te National nearn Service but is concerned that it be completed rapidly and that existing part-time contracts must end. It further demands that the long term aim od the Labour Party be the total abolition of private practice with all private medical care outside the National Health Service under Government control as a first step and the prohibition of all (d) demands the public ownership of the pliarmaceutical and other industries which are major suppliers to the National Health Service with compensation on the basis of need, with state monopoly over the import and export of drugs and medical supplies;
(e) demands the abolition of all nursing agencies and the rapid move by the Nat ional Health Service towards the non-use of agency staff or outside contractors for (f) calls for all management bodies to be democratically elected and to include elected representatives of all grades of employees within the service;
(g) calls for an extension of occupational, preventative and rehabilitative health care schemes with a major expansion in the number of health centres;
(h) calls for extended facilities for pregnancy testing, contraception and abortion so that they are available to all women on request, free of charge, and opposes moves Conference, desperately alarmed at the stagnation in morale and innovation in the National Health Service and concerned at the continued erosion and constant amendment of plans for the future, calls upon the Government to publish, within one year, a major White Paper embodying a Ten Year Plan for the development of the NATIONAL UNION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES SCALE OF GOV. FUNDS
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