Fowler's fiddled figures
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-12-15Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 10 →
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NORMAN Fowler has claimed that he has won a 1% real increase in health spending next year, enough to cover the growing needs of the elderly.
He has assumed that health workers will take a 2% real pay cut, and that health authorities can find ½% 'efficiency savings' He has ignored the growing costs of medical technology, the continually rising demands on the family practitioner service, and the need to restore this year's cut to get planned spending back on course.
When we take these factors into account and question Mr Fowler's unjustified assumptions, his 1% real growth turns into a 2½% real cut amounting to nearly £400 million. *Prices are expected to rise by Stockport.
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YORKSHIRE EAST Durbam.
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Harrogate.
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Huddersfield.
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Leeds Contact: Garth, 623322. SO is sold at Books and Corner Books, Woodhouse Lane. Sheffield.
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Sunderland.
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WALES AND WEST Bristol.
Contact: c/o 28 Vid Lane, London N8. 5%. Cost: £344 million.
*Pay must rise by at least 5% if the living standards of NHS staff are not to be cut. Cost:
*Growing numbers of elderly people require an increase in spending of between 0.7% and 1% a year. Cost: £163 million.
*Advances in medical technology require extra spending of ½% per year to keep pace. Cost: £82 million.
*Growing demands on te family practitioner service, possibly due to rising unemployment, have caused a 10% rise in spending this year (£100 million above target). Likely 'extra' spending next year, on top of factors above is: £125 This gives a total extra of £1147 million.
Middle MIDLANDS Cardiff.
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Taunton.
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Contact: Godfrey Webster, 169 Barclay Rd., Bearswood, Smethwick. SO is sold at the Other Bookshop. Coventry. Contact: Keith, 75623. SO is sold at the Wedge Bookshop.
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Northampton.
Contact: Ross, 713606. Nottingham.
Contact: Pete, 585640. is sold at the Vict Centre, (Saturday, 11 t We must also take into account Chancellor Nigel Lawson's cuts in cash limited spending of 1% on current spending and 2% on capital spending.
So when Norman Fowler announces that health spending next year will increase by only £800 million, this amounts to a real cut in NHS services next year of £390 million - nearly The government has claimed that health authorities can achieve 'efficiency earnings' equal to ½% of their spending each year — or £53 million.
Even if these savings are allowed for, the November statement effectively offers real cuts in health spending next year of From a NUPE document and at Mushroom shop, Heathcote St.
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LONDON AREA Brent [and NW].
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Hounslow.
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AN 18-month pay offer of 5.14% on basic rates made to 4,700 TGWU manual workers employed by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority was rejected last week, and brings for the first time the possibility of strike action at the UK AEA's seven sites.
Putney.
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SE London.
Contact Siu Ming, 691 11' Southwark Lambeth.
Contact: Jeff, 635 8468.
Tower Hamlets.
Contact: Susan, 377 1328.
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