wedge of privatised provision built Hungerford House in Newbury, together with its staff the need for joint planning and liaison with local councils which will be responsible for community care of the elderly after 1993, and WBHA makes no proposals for communityased health services - such as day hospitals, occupational therapy, physiotherapy. speech therapy - to support the olderly people they plan to dump into single rooms and "sitting areas" in four new nursing homes.
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The wholescheme for WHA to contribute "top up" payments to supplement Social Security incomesupport may be illegal: it certainly Ppears # lout DSS rules in the case d EMI patients, who are clearly in need to continuing therapy. treatment and medical support involved, Haven Services and Fewith Kesource Managemen Ltd. have any experience in the private services to EMi patients.
Nor is there any guarantee of easy profits to be made lions on lo Small ime like l elderly. and HRM would not be able to absoro losses, ano coula quickly find themselves forced to cut standaras ana staming ievels or even to close down leaving West Berkshire with no EMI services at all. tion and lesbians at work. Women then met in union caucuses 10 0i3cu55 18Aing up the issues within their own union structures. Industrial action is needed to defeat ant-union legislation and with the history of women's miltancy kis not front of defeating the laws.
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