Cuts warning
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AT LEAST fifty hospitals in London face the threat of closLure. In the coming financial ¿year, lunds for London 8 healtr ervice are to be cut by $27 I million. That is equivalent to the ¡jobe of over 2,000 nurses and 2,000 ancillary staff.
The real cuts could be even worse than these figures indi. I cale. The government's budget assumes an inflation rate of only 15.6%: If prices rise faster, the I difference will have to be made up through further cuts.
The recently-established London Health Services Campaign, with support from the Labour GLC, has been collating information about these cuts, and on | Tuesday April 12 it presented a