OUND S AR HAND ERTON E HOM TH

Show the government we love o ur hospital and we wont let it go

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Saturday 16 July

Assemble 12 noon
in the park that runs between Brooksbys Walk and Wardle St, opposite the Homerton hospital.

1 pm onwards
Line up and link hands around the Homerton
Calling all Hackney citizens Join hands to support the Homerton
Hackney Coalition to Save the NHS - working together to save our health service. (Hackney doctors, Unite L&E 524 branch, Keep Our NHS Public, Hackney LINk, Hackney Labour Party, Homerton Hospital workers, Hackney Coalition to Defend Public Services, Derman Turkish and Kurdish well-being group, Hackney NPC) Contact: hackneykonp@aol.com, 07896 303 207.

The Health & Social Care Bill th reatens our local hospitals with privatisation & closure

GENT UR
The government's Health & Social Care Bill threatens the entire future survival of the NHS. n All local hospitals (like the Homerton) face cuts in services and threats of closure. n Your GP will be forced to ration your healthcare. n Hospitals can now take as many private patients as they like (previously the number was limited). n The whole NHS is thrown wide open to exploitation by big private healthcare companies. The recent "pause" in the government's driving through of the Health Bill did not bring a pause in the massive top-down restructuring of the NHS which has carried on regardless. There has been no change in the policy to introduce more "competition" (i.e. big private healthcare companies) into the NHS. Hackney needs a health service which puts patients first, and not profits.

This is all happening at a time when NHS funding is being cut by around 20 billion. It can only result in further healthcare rationing and cuts to services. The government has finished its pause and now plans to ram the Bill through before the end of July. This is your chance to show the government that Hackney citizens will not accept privatisation and cuts to our NHS services - before the Bill passes through parliament.

Join us on 16 July at 12 noon to hold hands around the Homerton. Show the government we love our health service and we wont let it go.

Show the government - Hackney citizens will defend the Homerton - and the NHS