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SUPPORT NHS STUDENTS & JUNIOR DOCTORS

DEFEND NHS BURSARIES & UNSOCIAL HOURS


#NotSafeNotFair

#BursaryOrBust

THEY ARE FIGHTING FOR OUR NHS


Healthcare studentsnurses, midwives, occupational
therapists, speech and language therapists, podiatrists,
radiographers, dietetics, ODPsand junior doctors are at
the forefront of the battle to defend our NHS and we offer
them our full support in their current campaigns.
Healthcare students are organising for a national
demonstration on 9 January to stop an attack on their
bursaries. Meanwhile, junior doctors are still in dispute
over plans to cut their unsocial hours payments.
Their 98 percent strike vote and massive protests, with
up to 30,000 marching in London, are an inspiration to us
all. As is the response by student nurses and other NHS
students who are building a movement to defend NHS
bursaries.
Both these battles are about the future of our health
service. Austerity by the end of this government will have
taken 35 billion every year from the NHS budget.
Vacancies go unfilled, all hospital and community services
are stretched beyond breaking point. NHS staff work two

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or three peoples jobs, staying late, missing breakstrying


to do our best their patients in increasingly difficult times.
They have had a pay freeze for 5 years with 5 more years
promised, cuts to pensions, increased contribution, working
age increased from 60 to 68. Staff are demoralised and
angry about the impact that the Tory austerity package is
having, threatening the very existence of the NHS.
Proposals over unsocial hours, to stretch 5 days staff
over 7 days, paying each one less, will not improve anything
for patients. The bursary cut will price many out of the
ability afford to study to work in our NHS, burdening those
who want to support our NHS with huge debt, while they
actually work 50 percent of their course on placement!
All NHS workers face attacks on pay and on unsocial
hours down the line, with a catastrophic impact on patient
care. Thats why we have no hesitation in giving NHS
students and junior doctors our complete support and
believe we should be with them in their protests and strikes
to stop the Tory destruction of our NHS and its staff.

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