Hospital Occupations

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February 23rd, 2007 by catch

Images from hospital occupations. Taken from: Occupy and win

The main victims of government cuts and enforced closures are of course the patients; within six months of the raid on St Benedicts 30% of the patients were dead.
Occupations in Hayes Cottage and Northwood and Pinner hospitals in the autumn of 1983 were both successful in winning at least temporary reprieve. Without the action, both would have been closed.
Mass picket outside the St Benedicts occupation, which was brutally raided after nine months of work-in in 1980.
Once nurses see the hospital still running "normally" and caring for patients, many will give increasingly active support to occupations.
Still perhaps the best-known of the hospital occupations, the work-in at the Elizabeth Garret Anderson Hospital was the first major fightback against government spending cuts, beginning in 1976 and lasting into 1978.
Bradford: in this instance a small core of workers decided they would not let the hospital close. Their lead was strongly supported by their fellow health workers, patients and relatives.
The aftermath of the management raid which ended Hounslow hospital occupation in October 1977; this type of management vandalism can be prevented only by firm pledges of supporting strike action by groups of health and other workers.
A mass picket of the Area Health Authority as part of the occupation of Hounslow Hospital 1977 supported by the Confederation of London Area Health Stewards – CLASH.
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Bethnal Green Hospital campaigners lobbying the DHSS at the Elephant and Castle in 1978 - They successfully held up the closure of casualty for over two years.