Letter from Andy Ford, Unite health rep.
The article on the NHS 10-Year Plan, reminded me of the emergency motion passed UNANIMOUSLY at the July policy conference of Unite. The text of the resolution was:
This conference is extremely concerned that the NHS 10 Year Plan published 3rd July fails to address social care and its detrimental effect on the delivery of healthcare.
This 10-Year Plan prioritises restructure, sale of personal data, and a return to a PFI model of estate provision and management.
It comes at a time when the NHS is in multi factorial crisis, with unprecedented waits for care, recruitment and retention problems and crumbling estate, amongst many others.
This health emergency will have an impact on every one of us.
We call upon Unite, the EC and the General Secretary to lobby the Labour Party to cease the ongoing cuts, stabilise the health and social care services and stop this flawed 10 Year Plan which clearly fails to address the fundamental problems facing the NHS, most notably the crisis in social care.
In the event that this lobbying of government fails to bear fruit, Unite should establish a distinct position of opposition such as we successfully did with the Winter Fuel Payment.
Carried unanimously
