Does the Benefit System Improve your Health?
A Socialist Health Association seminar to consider the relation between the benefit system and health.
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Oct 22, 2009
from 10:10 AM to 04:10 PM |
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| Where | Leeds Church Institute, 20 New Market Street, Leeds LS1 6DG |
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David Cameron looks set to make the benefit system an election battleground. You can read the Conservative proposals online. Older readers might recall that sickness benefits were established in 1912, long before the NHS. How important are they now?
Speakers
- Dr Clare Bambra, Department of Geography, Durham University
- Ian Greaves, Editor of the Disability Rights Handbook
Cost (includes lunch): Statutory and commercial organisations £50, Voluntary organisations £25, Socialist Health Association members £10 (includes members of affiliated organisations such as GMB, Unite and Unison who represent their union or pay their own way). Unfunded organisations and individuals please contact Socialist Health Association.
