Tag: hospital
‘VICTORIAN WORKHOUSE’ – ISS cleaners, porters & security staff take action!
‘SANTA pigs’ demonstrated outside four south London hospitals yesterday against the bullying of cleaners by managers of the private company they work for, ISS. Under...
A&Es IN MELTDOWN! – ‘TORIES TO BLAME!’ says A&E consultant Dr...
‘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,...
Tory ambulance cuts kill – A&Es are in meltdown!
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...
TWO THOUSAND MARCH IN SILENCE! – to mark six months since...
OVER two thousand people silently marched through the streets of Notting Hill on Thursday night to mark the six months anniversary of the Grenfell...
‘Working Poor’ Evictions Scandal!
THE WORKING poor have now become the working homeless, as nurses, teachers and firefighters are among those being thrown out of their homes...
Record numbers of children rely on food banks
A RECORD number of children are being forced to rely on food banks in order to survive, with the numbers expected to surge...
‘Troops to pull out of Syria’ – Putin’s orders
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has ordered the withdrawal of Russian troops from Syria. He gave the command during a surprise visit to Khmeimim Airbase...
King’s Hospital head resigns over cuts!
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...
ANC leaders influenced by ‘liars and rogues’
THE ANC leadership is influenced by ‘liars and rogues,’ anti-apartheid activist and retired Constitutional Court judge Zak Yacoob said. Reflecting on his judicial work which...
US & Saudi Flags Burnt At Gaza Mass Rally
PALESTINIANS have come out in force in the Gaza Strip to protest against US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s ‘capital’, burning ...
SHOCKING CRISIS: 128,000 kids homeless at Xmas
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...
Trade unions must act over NHS crisis by organising...
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...
NHS CRISIS–‘LISTEN TO DOCTORS WARNINGS’ urges BMA
JUNIOR doctors at Portsmouth Hospital were used to interpret tens of thousands of X-rays without proper training and as a result cases of...
Maternity & midwife cuts – 1,000 stillbirths
THE CLOSURE of maternity departments at hospitals up and down the country and the severe lack of midwives has created a situation where as...
Amazon ‘work till you drop!’
AMAZON workers have their toilets breaks timed, are paid as little as 7p per item they pack and are working as much as 55...
The working class will not accept permanent austerity! Call a general...
IN THE wake of Tory Chancellor Hammond’s budget – a budget in which he declared war on the working class, war on pensioners, war...
On-line GP consultations dangerous & ineffective
BUCKETS of cold water have been poured on Tory plans for patients to see their GP over the internet rather than face-to-face. The pilot...
Ambulance boss must quit!
AMBULANCE workers union GMB have called for the chief executive of the South West Ambulance Service to quit as they ‘struggle to maintain a...
Hammond rejects call for £4bn emergency NHS cash
TORY CHANCELLOR Philip Hammond has rejected calls for a £4bn emergency cash injection into the NHS, instead announcing that deeper cuts are necessary for...
Minimum 3-month wait for operations! NHS must be defended with a...
PATIENTS suffering from serious conditions, requiring hip or knee replacements, hernias repaired and cataracts removed, all considered ‘non-urgent surgery’, have been told that they...
71 died in Grenfell inferno! says Police Commander Cundy
THE POLICE have claimed that the final death toll for Grenfell Tower is seventy one and have for the first time admitted that CCTV...
From 1917 Centenary–Forward To World October!
‘THE WORLD’S first socialist revolution when the working class took power is showing us the way forward today,’ Workers Revolutionary Party General Secretary Frank...
Bring Down The May Government – Forward To A Socialist UK...
ONE HUNDRED years after the Balfour Declaration, the PLO and the Palestinian masses are demanding that the UK government apologise for it and its...
Alarming A&E Waiting Times
THE British Medical Association (BMA) has warned that a million more patients will face waits of more than four hours at accident and emergency...
PFI privateers having looted the NHS and the public sector are...
THE EXTENT of the full-scale looting of the country’s public buildings by giant offshore private companies has been highlighted in a report by a...
NHS bed & staffing crisis is a ‘Grenfell Tower waiting to...
THE NUMBER of NHS beds has halved in the last 30 years and proposals to slash bed numbers even further will make the ‘NHS a...
Dump NHS early discharge plan!
FOLLOWING massive opposition from the public, patients and staff, Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has temporarily suspended plans to pilot a scheme to...
Doctors will not be ‘border guards’
AS OF yesterday, doctors, nurses and NHS staff are required to demand documentation from patients to prove that they are eligible for free...
Smokers and obese patients banned!
SMOKERS and people suffering from obesity will be barred from surgery under plans which the Royal College of Surgeons warn tear up the fundamental...
Trumpcare ‘Sabotages Healthcare System’
AMERICAN Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) President Lee Saunders issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s decision to end...
End the ‘gig economy’ and all cheap labour! Kick the Tories...
THE DRIVE by the bosses to force every worker in Britain into the so-called ‘gig economy’ has hit the headlines again this week with...
Homelessness rises by 134%! Socialist revolution needed to build millions of...
HOMELESSNESS has risen by a startling 134% since the Tories came to power in 2010, with the amount of people sleeping on the...
No Uber-style NHS workforce! – GMB union condemns Hunt
TORY health secretary Hunt is trying to create an Uber-style workforce in the NHS, with nurses and hospital staff on flexible working hours, just...
Big Bike Ride to save Ealing Hospital greeted with cheers and...
THE WEST London Council of Action Big Bike Ride to Save Ealing Hospital on Sunday was a great success. More than two dozen riders with...
Join Our Big Bike Ride!
‘CALLING all cyclists – join our Big Bike Ride from Ealing Hospital to Charing Cross Hospital on Sunday morning. And if you’re not...
RCN urges safety review of winter nurse numbers!
HEALTH and care providers must examine whether they have enough nursing staff to provide safe patient care this winter, the Royal College of Nursing...
RCN RESPOND TO LABOUR PARTY CALL FOR A £500m NHS WINTER...
JANET DAVIES the Chief Executive and General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has responded to the Labour Party call for a £500...
AMBULANCE STAFF OVERWORKED AND UNDERPAID! – must retire at 60 says...
AMBULANCE drivers are so overworked and underpaid that thousands are forced to take time off because of severe stress. Their union the GMB is...
Only 2 junior doctors in charge of 436 patients!
ONLY two junior doctors were left in charge to care for for 436 patients on a night shift which they have said was...
NHS unions claim 3.9% wage rise plus £800! – 14 unions...
FOURTEEN NHS unions submitted a pay claim directly to the May government on behalf of more than one million NHS workers...
SA police attempted murder of a 14-year-old!
A CASE of attempted murder has been opened over the shooting of a 14-year-old boy on a demonstration in Hangberg, Hout Bay, Cape Town...
GROSS MISCONDUCT – officer being investigated
The officer who restrained 20-year-old Rashan Charles in Dalston, East London shortly before he died on July 22 is being investigated for gross misconduct. Rashan...
Tories throw down gauntlet! – separate pay awards for police &...
IN A SLAP in the face for the TUC Congress, the Tory government yesterday announced pay rises for police and prison officers, while leaving...
‘NO MORE PRESSING ISSUE THAN PAY’ says Prentis – Unite, Unison...
OPENING the public sector pay debate at the 149th Trades Union Congress in Brighton on Monday afternoon, Unison general secretary Dave Prentis moved composite...
Youth demand a future–no zero hours contracts
‘YOUTH demand a future! No Zero hour contracts!’ shouted the fifty-strong Young Socialists and Workers Revolutionary Party lobby of the Trades Union Congress in...