Disputes involving UNISON members employed by NHS contractors in High Wycombe and Southampton are pointers to a future NHS - where increased competition breaks up national pay bargaining and forces workers to resist a downward spiral of cuts in pay and conditions.
'Further break up and commercialisation of the NHS will increase this distortion, with little groups of doctors commissioning services from big firms which would be happy to divide and rule. That's what's at stake.'
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