Defend the NHS March and Rally, Nottingham 23rd Sept

THE NHS IS ON ITS KNEES, GET ON YOUR FEET TO SAVE IT!

DEFEND THE NHS MARCH AND RALLY
Nottingham: Saturday 23rd September
11 am @ Forest Recreation Ground
(Goose Fair site - Assemble from 10 am)

The joint UNISON/RCN march will call for:

• The Government to give NHS Trusts more time and money to clear their deficits


• An end to privatisation


• Support to stop the sale of NHS Logisitics

March will leave the Forest at 11 am and will end at the Albert Hall, Derby Road for a rally at 12 noon

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UNISON want 5 healthier options for the NHS:

No Cuts in Services
Across the East Midlands, NHS Trusts have announced around £200 million cuts. These include £60 million at Nottingham Hospitals, £15 million in Derby, £25 million for Leicester PCT,a nd £18.5 million proposed for Northampton. that's cuts at your local hospital and health centre. NHS Direct are also closing call centres, with staff at walk in centres not being replaced when they leave. These cuts will mean less people to deliver services and aptient care for your family. they must be stopped.

No bed closures
Less staff measn less nurses and care assitants. in Nottingham alone there will be 186 beds lost at the newly merged Nottingham University Hospitals Trust. Almost daily, more ward closures are being announced. This will mean longer waiting lists, more delays, and more pain. These bed closures cuts will affect patient care.

No privatisation of services - an end to profit from pain
The Government has announced plans to sell off the award winning NHS Logitics to a private haulage company. in Lincoln, confidential medical records may be processed in the Philippines. Across the region, over £3million of tax-payers money was paid out to private companies for operations they had not even carried out. The NHS is being increasingly privatised. Stop this scandal now - Keept the NHS public, not owned by shareholders.

No cuts in Pay & Conditions
The cuts are leaving NHS staff facing the stark choice of a pay cut or redundancy.

No Redundancies
A staggering 5000 NHS jobs are currently under threat in the East Midlands. This includes 1200 losses in Nottinghamshire and 300 in Lincoln - with more being proposed. In Chesterfield, 47 senior sursing staff will go. UNISON believes these redundancies will weaken local delivery of NHS services, and msut be stopped.

SEE YOU ON THE MARCH IN NOTTINGHAM ON 23rd SEPTEMBER