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‘ALL CLOSURE THREATENED HOSPITALS, FIRE STATIONS AND FACTORIES SHOULD BE OCCUPIED’...
‘CHASE FARM Hospital is occupied,’ Bill Rogers, Secretary of the North East London Council of Action, told News Line, speaking inside the hospital at...
Council of Action takes up the challenge to defend NHS
THE News Line congratulates the North East London Council of Action for its march through Enfield on Saturday and its occupation of Chase Farm...
Coalition cuts doctors and then turns away patients!
THE Care Quality Commission has put a cap on the number of people who can be admitted to the ‘Majors’ section of the A&E...
25,000 MARCH TO DEFEND LEWISHAM A&E – ‘Take over hospitals and...
MORE than 25,000 angry workers, trade unionists, youth and local residents marched through Lewisham in south-east London on Saturday, determined to stop the closure...
Stop A&E Closures!
THE British Medical Association yesterday warned against mass A&E closures implicit in a review of emergency services being carried out Professor Sir Bruce Keogh,...
Class War In The NHS
2013 OPENS with Michael Farrar, the NHS confederation chairman, appealing for fewer hospitals and beds, and more care for elderly people in their own...
Bonus For Not Sending An Ambulance!
LONDON Ambulance Control Room workers are being offered bonuses of up to £250 if they can reduce by 30 per cent the number of...
Scrap Work Capability Assessments say disabled! –while Lewisham residents insist their...
DISABLED people and supporters demonstrated outside the Norwich offices of ATOS last Friday, 11 January, to demand an end to the Work Capability Assessments...
7,000 NURSING POSTS GONE! – in just two years of the...
‘ONE by one, David Cameron has broken all the promises he made on the NHS. It is now struggling with his toxic medicine of...
Occupy To Keep Lewisham Hospital Open!
THE picket called each Wednesday by the South East London Council of Action, to prepare to defend Lewisham hospital with an occupation to keep...
Bring down the Coalition! – the only way to defend the...
Health Secretary Hunt’s attempt to turn the report on the ‘breakdown in healthcare’ at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust into an attack on the NHS...
BOYCOTT COMMISSIONING! – BMA GPs hit out at Coalition
A SURVEY of GPs has shown that over half support the BMA organising a boycott of commissioning, with a sizeable minority supporting strike action...
A FRENZY OF BENEFIT CUTTING! – Coalition goes for the poor
THE Coalition and its supporters are engaged in a frenzy of benefit cutting which is victimising and pauperising the working class and many sections...
West Mids Ambulance privatised – and don’t dial 999 over Xmas...
HEALTH regulator Monitor has authorised West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust as a new foundation trust, effectively privatising it from 1st January, 2013. The trust...
HARMONI – ‘SHORT STAFFED AND UNSAFE’ – NHS privateer is...
HARMONI, the out-of-hours GP services privateer, is often so short-staffed that it is unsafe. Managers regularly send out desperate texts to doctors and nurses...
NHS is not Tesco! – no to seven-day working
The NHS Commissioning Board will announce compulsory seven-day working in the NHS when it publishes its ‘planning guidance’ for the NHS for the first...
7-Day Working Proposed For Hospital Consultants!
BY A MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT PROPOSALS are being made by clinical leaders to bring in 7-day working for hospital consultants. These proposals are laid out in a...
‘We Won’t Let You Close Lewisham Hospital’
LEWISHAM East Labour MP Heidi Alexander handed in a 22,000 signature petition to Downing Street yesterday against plans to axe Lewisham Hospital’s A&E and...
Doctors vote for strike action – but BMA Council refuses to...
HOSPITAL doctors in Scotland have voted to take strike action against the government’s attacks on the Scottish NHS Pension Scheme. However, the BMA Council, met...
15,000 MARCH THROUGH LEWISHAM! – determined to stop the closure of...
LEWISHAM reverberated, last Saturday to a 15,000 strong demonstration of opposition to the closure of the Accident and Emergency, and Maternity Services at Lewisham...
NHS On-Line Surgeries ‘Will Cost Lives!’
PROPOSALS to ‘save £3 billion’ by transferring NHS services onto the web to end the overcrowding of GP surgeries have been condemned by charities...
Chase Farm Trust Plans Over 200 sackings!
BARNET and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust has issued staff with a ‘consultation paper regarding administration review, emergency and planned care’, notifying them of...
STRIKE BALLOT – by Scottish doctors
SCOTLAND'S hospital doctors began balloting for strike action yesterday, against the Scottish government’s attacks on the NHS pension scheme. If the ballot gives the go-ahead,...
Treasury ‘stole’ £3bn from NHS – while hospitals close and services...
THE British Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday angrily condemned the news that the Treasury has clawed back nearly...
‘Consign capitalism to the Natural History Museum!’ –Jonty Leff tells Anniversary...
More than 200 workers and youth got massive support from residents and shoppers as they marched through east London on Sunday, to a rally...
GPs ‘stunned and angry’ at imposed contract changes
GPs are angry that the government intends to impose changes to their contracts. There are huge implications in the Department of Health’s proposed imposed changes,...
‘THERE’S GOT TO BE DIRECT ACTION TO SAVE OUR HOSPITALS’ –...
UP TO 5,000 workers and local residents marched in west London against the closures of Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals on Saturday. The angry demonstration...
‘NHS is in distress’
‘OUR NHS is in distress’, Royal College of GPs (RCGP) Chair Dr Clare Gerada has warned. Addressing nearly 2,000 GPs and health professionals at the...
Hunt signals more NHS cuts
THE British Medical Association yesterday expressed concern for the future of the NHS, after Health Secretary Hunt signalled more savage cuts. A BMA spokesperson said:...
Pathology Privatisation Fiasco
The Serco-led public-private partnership which runs London’s St Thomas’ and Kings College hospitals’ path labs, GSTS Pathology, has run into trouble having made a...
A&E closures cost lives! Build Councils of Action – Occupy!
INTERNAL documents secured by the Mail on Sunday under the Freedom of Information Act, along with a report due to be issued later this...
OCCUPATIONS AND NATIONAL ACTION TO SAVE NHS – calls Enfield conference
‘NATIONAL Action is needed to defend the NHS & stop hospital closures!’ was the title of the resolution that was carried unanimously at a...
‘BUILD COUNCILS OF ACTION’ – organise general strike to defend the...
BILL Rogers the secretary of the North East London Council of Action welcomed 100 workers and youth to yesterday’s conference in Enfield...
DEFEND OUR HOSPITALS!– London BMA votes to support Enfield conference
Dr Kevin O’Kane, chairman of the London Region BMA told its Annual Business Meeting on Thursday night that London Region felt let down and...
EALING HOSPITAL MUST NOT CLOSE! Form a Council of Action NOW
HEALTH workers, trade unionists and local residents spoke out in support of the policy of occupying Ealing Hospital to stop the closure on the...
33% Fewer Hospital Beds!
‘WE ARE concerned that the implementation of the Health & Social Care Act risks the fragmentation of patient care highlighted in this report,’ Paul...
‘68 is too late’ – decides TUC Congress
TUC DELEGATES yesterday voted unanimously to defend the Welfare State, pensions, and state education. They voted for Composite Motion 8: The Welfare State...
Specialist Health Services sell-off!
IN a historic crime a new report paves the way for the sell-off of England’s Specialist Health Services. Since the passage of the Health...
Hunt’s appointment – a declaration of war on the NHS!
THE appointment of Jeremy Hunt as Secretary of State (SoS) for Health, is a declaration of war on the NHS. Hunt is a right winger...
Murdoch’s Poodle Hunt Gets Health Privatisation Job
HEALTH Secretary Andrew Lansley has been demoted to the role of Leader of the House of Commons. This is after his health goose was cooked...
‘Hit squads’ being sent into seven NHS Trusts!
‘HIT SQUADS’ are being sent by the government into hospitals to identify and implement savage cuts, ‘savings’ and closures so that spiralling PFI debts...
‘Only come in if you’re dying’ – Suffolk A&E
NHS Suffolk warned patients not to visit A&E over the Bank Holiday weekend unless they are dying. The primary care trust said it stood...
Unions Reject Pay-Cut Cartel
HEALTH unions, Unison, the BMA, and RCN have refused to recognise a South West regional NHS cartel set up to cut pay and conditions. The...
Ward Closure Storm At Sidcup Hospital
HEALTH workers have angrily condemned the decision by administrators now running the bankrupt South London Healthcare Trust to close the gynaecology ward at...
Circle taking £1bn out of NHS!
THE first private company to run an NHS hospital claims it has cut waiting times, improved care and delivered savings in its first six...