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Archive – fighting privatisation from the 1980s onwards

What Thatcher meant to the NHS
33 years on, read how campaigners in 1988 responded to cuts, privatisation and (pages 64-72) the even wilder plans of Oliver Letwin and others. Read the book here
Privatising care - the record of private companies in NHS support services - ALA - 1988
Campaign stickers 1984-5
Barking strike - supporting action can win - leaflet to NUPE conference 1984
Activists Briefing August 1984
Privatisation - the hard facts - 1984
Privatisation - organising to fight back - leaflet for conference 1984
NHS Privatisation - and how to fight it - tri-fold conference leaflet 1984
Poster - Who would you prefer to run hospital kitchens - 1984-5
Poster - what is happening to the old norms - Community Care - 1985
Poster - Must we Bring Our Own Sheets? - 1984-5
Poster - it takes TIME to clean a hospital - 1984-5
Superbug thrives on cuts Oct 1987
Recipes for cockroaches June 1985
Privatisation feature July 1984
Privatisation conference report Nov 1984
NHS Pay Beds & private medicine August 1987
Competition to monopoly + cartoon Spring 1987
Competition plus cartoon August 1985
Cockroach feature HE July 1984

Staff voices against privatisation and PFI, 2000 onwards

Voices from the Front Line (The PFI Experience) (2003)
Not So Great (2003)
Cleaners' Voices - interviews with hospital cleaning staff - UNISON 2005

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