Tag: england

UNDER the Localism Act 2011, councils were granted greater powers to restrict access to social housing. Vulnerable people are now unable to access social...

TAKE your sick children to see the pharmacist, rather than the GP or to an A&E. . . this is the message of a...

LAST Monday, the American Dow Jones Index, which records the share prices of the top US companies and banks, recorded the biggest drop in...

THE TORY policy of forcing every school in England to become academies and turn the entire education system into a profit-making business has created...

‘ONCE the funding of health and social care are combined, then the door is opened for means testing and charging for healthcare,’ Anna Athow,...

MORE than 20,000 nurses, health workers, trade unionists, workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street on Saturday afternoon to demand TUC action to...

TORY government plans to boost the number of trainee nurses in the wake of the Francis report into Mid Staffs are failing, the Royal...

THOUSANDS of nursing staff from across England will join tens of thousands of workers and youth on a march and demonstration in London today. Royal...

‘ON EVERY day except Friday last week, several hospitals across England didn’t have a single unoccupied bed,’ Donna Kinnair, Director of Nursing, Policy and...

‘THIS NEWS is extremely concerning, but not altogether surprising considering the continued warnings the BMA has given over Capita’s shambolic running of backroom services...

CAPITA shares plunged over 40% yesterday, provoking speculation that the huge conglomerate privateer is going the way of Carillion and is set to...

WHEN CARILLION collapsed last month it left the future of the new Royal Liverpool Hospital in limbo. The half-built £335 million hospital which has already...

PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas told the 30th Ordinary Session of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa on Sunday that resuming the peace efforts requires...

CIVIL servants’ union PCS has called for urgent talks with the Cabinet Office over its 2018 pay claim which calls for a fully-funded 5%...

THERE is a desperate lack of nurses in the NHS. Currently, overloaded nurses are doing the job of three people, working 12-hour shifts in...

THE UK government ‘needs to pay much more attention to establishing safe and regular routes for people to reach safety and their loved ones...

THE HOUSE of Commons education committee has written to the Tory academies minister, Lord Agnew, expressing MPs’ concern about a ‘lack of transparency and...

PRESIDENT Trump’s racist comments, made while speaking privately to US lawmakers in the Oval Office on Thursday, in fact show a bourgeois leader who...

EX-UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said that ‘we should have a second referendum on EU membership.’ This is the biggest personal surrender note for...

‘EMERGENCY care is itself in a state of emergency,’ Dr Taj Hassan, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine said on Thursday. He was...

SENIOR doctors in charge of more than 60 hospital emergency departments have written to the prime minister warning of ‘very serious concerns’ about patient...

TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt has been told in a letter from NHS bosses that the NHS is ‘no longer able to meet the...

LABOUR’S shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth yesterday hit out at Tory cuts, saying the NHS winter crisis ‘was entirely predictable and indeed entirely preventable.’ He...

NEW FIGURES exposing the escalating winter crisis in the NHS were published yesterday morning by NHS England, forcing Tory PM May to apologise for...

IT WAS announced on Tuesday night that all operations during the month of January are cancelled, leaving over 50,000 patients in pain and misery. Also...

MULTI-BILLIONAIRE Richard Branson’s private health company Virgin Care has won £1bn worth of NHS contracts in a single year. Private providers are winning an increasing...

DR RICHARD Fawcett, a Royal Stoke Hospital consultant, has apologised for ‘third world’ conditions in the hospital’s A&E, saying that he was ‘heartbroken’ to...

CALL an ambulance and a fire engine turns up! Firefighters with just six days basic first aid training are being sent to medical emergencies instead...

LABOUR’S next manifesto will include a pledge to reduce eviction powers for landlords and tip housing rules back in favour of renters, party leader...

THE just-published Resolution Foundation report says that real wage growth will be flat in 2018 and that many households are already pessimistic about...

ALMOST 50 per cent (49%) of Heads of Midwifery (HOMs) from across the UK have had to close their maternity units at some point...

HOMELESSNESS in England is a ‘national crisis’ and the Tory government is ‘unacceptably complacent’ about it, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC)...

‘UP and down the country our A&E departments are in meltdown, our staff are at breaking point and we need your help,’ Rob Galloway,...

A SHORTAGE of ambulances and paramedics along with a ‘meltdown’ of A&E services has lead to an extremely alarming spike in patient deaths, as...

STUDENT poverty and debt will not be solved by just curbing vice-chancellors’ pay, says the NUS, student grants must be restored. Sky-high pay among university...

NURSES, firefighters, and teachers are so badly paid that many are doing second jobs in order to survive! A vast majority rely on in-work...

NURSES, midwives, doctors, paramedics and NHS staff are being driven out of the profession because of overwork and low pay... creating a ‘severe staff...

THE BANK of England has revealed that banks extended new mortgage commitments to borrowers worth £69.6bn in the three months to the end of...

INFLATION rose to 3.1% in November, the highest in nearly six years, as the squeeze on households continued and prices rose, slashing further into...

CHAIR of the King’s College Hospital NHS Trust Bob Kerslake resigned late on Sunday evening stating that the cuts he was being asked to...

A SHOCKING 128,000 children in Britain will wake up homeless and in temporary accommodation this Christmas Day, a new report by Shelter revealed on...

HOSPITALS across the country are already running close to 100% bed occupancy and the full effects of winter haven’t even started to impact on...

THE FACT that 128,000 children in Britain will wake up homeless and in temporary accommodation this Christmas Day is a ‘national scandal’, the leader...

THE WORLD’S capitalists are ringing the alarm bells at the prospect that the May government will fall. The US CME Group that owns and operates...

JUNIOR doctors at Portsmouth Hospital were used to interpret tens of thousands of X-rays without proper training and as a result cases of...