TUC: Cuts will harm NHS frontline services
Brendan Barber, TUC general secretary, said in response to False Economy’s NHS job loss numbers:
“The campaign against the government’s deep, rapid cuts is really taking off all round the country.
“False Economy combines the strengths of union traditions with the creativity of the new generation of campaigners more used to Twitter than branch meetings.
“It’s rapidly become a home both for those taking their first steps in protesting about their local library closing and also for long-established opponents of the cuts.
“False Economy’s new research on NHS job cuts gives the lie to government claims that the NHS was safe in their hands. Not only are they reorganising the NHS in a way that strips out many of its founding principles, but also insisting on immediate cuts that will certainly harm frontline services. To echo Andrew Lansley, it does not get much more frontline than that.”
