‘ The greatest fight in the long and illustrious history of our NHS ’

“This isn’t just a time to learn from the past, but time to shape a new future,” general secretary Dave Prentis told delegates at the UNISON health conference in Brighton today. This summer markis the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service – what Mr Prentis called “the greatest achievement of our union and our movement. It’s something to fight for, a beacon for the world, the envy of the world. “It’s lasted 70 years and it’s our duty to ensure that it lasts another 70 years,” he said. πIt’s the greatest institution our county has ever known. “So whenever politicians tell you that new public services are too expensive, too complicated, that there are other priorities – point them to the NHS and compare.” But he added that health members today “face so many challenges”, including lack of resources, constant reorganisation, growing waiting lists, rising privatisation and fragmentation and the constant demand “to do more with less.” As a result, he said, “there is more stress on the NHS’s most valuable resource – its staff.” UNISON members will be taking to the streets on 12 May to Step Up for Public Services at the TUC national demonstration, and again on 30 June, in an NHS anniversary march to celebrate and defend the health service. And the union continues to fight for the funding the health service needs. “Austerity was always a failed dogma, but now more than ever it is fraying at the edges. You see every day how it h...
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