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DHSS Circular, HC(83)18, Health services management: competitive tendering in the provision of domestic, catering and laundry services, 8.9.83
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DHSS Draft Circular, Use of commercial contracting in the provision of domestic, catering and laundry services, February, 1983
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'Companies who aim to clean-up the health service', The Times, 24.8.83
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Information on Medway Health Authority contracts from: NUPE Kent Office, 'Unions fear hospital job losses if private contractors move in', Chatham, Rochester and Gillingham News, 9.12.83; 'Public need not private need', NUPE publication, December, 1983; NUPE Standard, Autumn 1983, Southern Division, Nupe; 'Cleaners with a lot to loose', Health and Social Services Journal, 1.12.83; Exclusive Health Care Brochure, presented to Medway Health Authority; Research briefing, 'Contracting out and privatisation of the NHS services', COHSE, January 1984
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'Hospital cleaners fear for their jobs', report by Marx Cox, Greater London and Essex Newspapers, 19.10.83; see also: '100 NHS jobs lost', Barking and Dagenham Independent, no 206, 26.10.83; 'cleaners in sack notice row', Dagenham and Barking Advertiser, 21.10.83