OXFORDSHIRE NHS staff joined in a mass march and rally against the Government's planned health reforms in July 1989.
Banner-waving marchers made their way from the John Radcliffe hospital in Headington to a meeting in South Park where speakers told their audience Britain was heading for an American-style health service which the poor would not be able to afford.
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On their way to South Park they passed the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, the only hospital in the Oxford region to "express an interest" in self-government under the Tory White Paper provisions.
At the rally Oxford East MP Mr Andrew Smith called for a county-wide debate to determine the future of the Nuffield.
He said: "The Nuffield does not belong to the Government, to the Health Authority, or even the staff, it belongs to everyone in the county, and it is the people of Oxfordshire who must decide its future."
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