Blood Service demonstration

(Background  is here)

DEMONSTRATION
Lunchtime protests will be held at all blood centres in England on Friday 15th June. This is one day after International Donor Day (also the first day of a week of national leafleting in support of NBS workers by the UK IWW). Click below for the addresses of affected centres for any available health activists who would like to go along + give the staff a boost.

National Blood Service centralisation dispute

Unworkable reconfiguration plans will threaten patient’s lives and healthcare workers’ jobs.

The vital blood processing and distribution service is to be centralised in management cost cutting insanity which will result in blood being transported hundreds of miles by road and skilled workers losing their jobs. This will directly threaten patients’ lives as the blood is driven on congested motorways from the donation centres to the “super centres” and then back out to hospitals.