Action for health & w'elfare Welfare State Bundles of 25 £6 (unions)/ £4 (pensioners) Individual subs £5/£3. Union and LP affiliations £25, pensioners & unemployed £10 Write to WSN, c/o Southwark TUSU, 42 Braganza St lo-son SE17 Speakers include: • TONY BENN MP • ALAN SIMPSON MP • JILL MOUNTFORD (Welfare State Network) JOHN LISTER (London Health Emergency)
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• SARAH WELLINGS (NUS) • KEVIN SEXTON (NUS) • Credentials/details ring 071-639-5068 NHS beds crisis BIRMINGHAM and Cambridge are the latest areas to face a serious shortage of NHS emergency beds as the Tories forge ahead with their hospital closure programme.
Both cities saw desperately ill patients shuttled long distances in ambulances in search of treatment. The London area is fast becoming a net exporter of patients.
60 miles from North London taken 60 miles to Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge for lack of suitable beds anywhere in the capital.
Since then two patients from the same area have been taken almost 40 miles to Hemel Hempstead, which turned out to be the only available Intensive Therapy Unit beds.
One of these patients, an eldSOCIALIST OUTLOOK No.76. 21 January 1995, Page 3