In North London alone, at least ten hospitals are due for the chop in the next two years. One of the first threatened is the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson hospital in Camden.
This women's hospital, set up in 1872, is one of the two remaining such hospitals in the country. A hospital run by women for women, it provides extensive services for patients from all over Britain. Many immigrant women avail themselves of these services for cultural reasons. The hospital also has a particularly sympathetic attitude towards contraception and Barbara Castle was forced to acknowledge public demand for the hospital's services when she reGHEATER MANCHESTEH TrOops OUt Eve tubel; Sat arise (136 Kingsland High St, E8): Sun 23 May. 7.30pm Oval House (Oval tube).
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This is hardly surprising, because the drastic cutbacks in the Area budget have led to deteriorating facilities, staff shortages and threatened closures in the rest of the Area's hospitals. Furthermore, the AHA has refused to give the EGA workers any guarantees of alternative employment.
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Potential ities with the campaign outside the hospital. This would mean not only tapping the tremendous potential support from the women's movement, but also linking up with all forces in the labour movement prepared to fight the cuts in public spending and jobs. In particular there is a need to get together with representatives from all the other London hospitals faced with closure, so as to work out a common strategy as well as to give mutual support.
of these threatened hospitals, which are often small and poorly organised, an important part of such a strategy would be to secure pledges of industrial action from the rest of their fellow hospital workers, and from other sections of the labour movement.
Another important weapon in fighting the attacks of the AHA and their masters in the Labour Government is to expose their real plans to run down the NHS in the area, by demanding that every last detail of their financial dealings and the exact schedules for closures and sackings be made public to all those who have to rely on their services for adequate health care.
Developers The ARA must especially be forced to explain why it refuses to use its £300,000 plus surplus from last year's budget to make urgent repairs to the EGA and restore its services in full, when it is obvious that it has nowhere else to house the EGA's facilities. And it should with the highly valuable site of the EGA - sell it to property develop ers, or build a new hospital?
policy should be made to take a clear stand in support of the campaign, and take positive steps to assist it by opposing any planning permission for future redevelopment of the EGA site and demanding full restoration of the EGA's services now. In this way they would be doing no more than putting into practice Labour Party policy on the NHS as expressed in last year's conference resolution. PUBLIC MEETING-Tues. 25 May 7.30pm, William Collinse School, Charrington Street, NW1 Speakers include Lena Jeger MP, an EGA shop steward, TU and WWC representa tives. For more details ring 388 0877.
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