UNISON National Conference unanimously backed motion 58 on the National Health Service. Clare Williams, NEC, moved a comprehensive motion on the threats to the NHS and the challenges facing health workers in Britain.
Clare won loud applause for suggesting an obvious way that the Coalition Government could make administrative cuts - "by scrapping the competition panel whose sole aim is to open up the NHS to private providers of health care".
In the first contested debate of the Conference, ultra left attempts to introduce abstract and diversionary slogans about compensation being paid to PFI contractors only in the case of 'proven need', were roundly defeated.
