Tag: hospital

It’s now official – NHS hospitals under the Tory-dominated coalition government are set to become little more than a franchise of the leisure and...

THE Tory LibDem coalition, despite all its problems and weaknesses, waged a war to bring its Health and Social Care privatising bill into law. They...

GMB trade union officers, representing 150 GMB members employed by Carillion at Great Western Hospital in Swindon, expect the company to reach conclusions by...

THE Hewletts came straight to the point yesterday over the plan to close Chase Farm hospital. ‘We should sack Lansley and the whole government to...

THE leaders of the Greek journalists and photoreporters’ trade unions have demanded that the police leadership stops its violence against press workers and releases...

Angry protesters at the funeral of the Greek pensioner, who shot himself last Wednesday in Syntagma square, in front of the Vouli (Greek parliament),...

THE UK has been accused of permitting an alleged war-criminal to escape prosecution. Tamil Net has reported that questions have been raised over the failure...

More than 400 posts are at risk at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust as part of proposals to save £30 million in the...

Israeli forces raided the Jerusalem office of a university media institute on Monday, shutting down the launch of an online media network and detaining...

An increase in NHS prescription charges in England of 25p, putting them up to £7.65, came into effect yesterday, despite objections from the British...

A GROUP of British and Irish activists have arrived in the Gaza Strip to show their solidarity with Palestinians living under siege in the...

‘Armed opposition elements have carried out serious human rights abuses,’ Human Rights Watch said last week in a little-publicised public letter to the Syrian...

A JOINT Statement by Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Al-Haq begins with a statement by Hana Shalabi. ‘To...

GAZA is being reduced from a massive prison for the Palestinian people to one in which they are homeless, jobless, and beginning to go...

‘We are comrades! We have shown we are not just GMB but all of Swindon together!’ GMB shop steward Paulo Fernandes told a cheering...

THE GMB is to make a formal complaint that a Bath employment agency is illegally supplying staff to Swindon hospital during Carillion strike days. GMB...

THE GMB has found that the senior Carillion HR manager involved in the Swindon dispute was the same HR manager for Carillion that dealt...

PATIENTS faced with the closure of their local Camden Road GP surgery overcame bureaucratic attempts to bar them from attending an invitation-only meeting with...

OVER 2,000 consultants, GPs, medical students and their supporters marched from the British Medical Association head office, Tavistock Square to Wednesday evening’s TUC rally...

THE Health and Social Care Bill is set to become law within weeks. This is after the LibDem ‘revolt’, which the Labour bureaucracy was telling...

BMA Consultants at their Annual Conference yesterday made it clear they were determined to fight for their pensions. The tone was set by the Consultants...

Thousands of health workers, patients, trade unionists and young people will be joining the mass protests to ‘Save Our NHS’ outside Parliament today. ‘Make...

It has emerged that the police, MI5 and other security services supplied information to a blacklist compiled for and funded by Carillion and...

An international conference on Al-Quds, last Sunday, highlighted criminal operations perpetrated by the Zionists, concerning Israel’s annexation policy in Jerusalem. The conference organised under...

THE fight to occupy Chase Farm hospital intensified on day 38 of the daily picket on the gates of Chase Farm as medical students,...

OVER 50 striking Swindon hospital workers travelled by coach yesterday to Wolverhampton to lobby their employer, privateer Carillion, demanding an end to...

The only power plant in Gaza city in Palestine has been forced to shut down for the second time in two weeks due to...

Eight mental health workers and their families, who live in the Chase Farm hospital residences, face eviction. The trust has issued eviction notices for these...

WANDSWORTH Council’s plan to sell off four acres of playing fields at Elliot Secondary School in Putney is an absolute scandal, said the GMB...

Israeli forces clashed with Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Friday, exchanging a volley of tear gas and rocks. Israeli troops entered the Haram...

Professor John Ashton, who was threatened with discipline over raising concerns about the Health and Social Care Bill, has warned of a return to...

THE coalition’s ex-Defence Secretary, Fox, put forward his demands for the Tory-led coalition’s March 21 crisis budget yesterday in the Financial Times. It was a...

FIFTY Swindon striking hospital workers came down to London by coach last Tuesday to lobby the Headquarters of their employer Carillion demanding an end...

SEVEN unions held a joint demonstration outside the Royal Courts of Justice on Monday against the government’s imposed changes in the way they calculate...

A coachload of fifty Swindon striking hospital workers yesterday descended on the London Headquarters of Carillion in Euston with shouts of ‘Respect at work! They...

The Israeli Supreme Court will hear a petition on Thursday against the continued administrative detention of hunger-striking prisoner Khader Adnan, the Palestinian prisoners society...

A NEWLY released report submitted to the United Nations by international organizations working in Hebron (Al Khalil) documents a sharp increase in serious...

porters, theatre technicians, catering, cleaning and other NHS support workers, employed by private contractor Carillion at Great Western Hospital in Swindon, have voted by...

‘the BILL remains fundamentally flawed and should be withdrawn,’ the BMA doctors’ union said yesterday. ‘Amendments amounting to little more than minor tweaking have not...

YESTERDAY, the Labour Party leader Miliband wrote in the Observer that ‘Everyone who loves the NHS must fight to defeat this health bill. This...

‘It is essential that the Health Bill is scrapped. Unison is completely opposed to the Health Bill. We are right behind the doctors who...

FOUR hundred Occupy Oakland protesters were arrested following clashes with police in the Northern California city last Sunday. Across the US and Europe occupy protesters...

An unprecedented number of Egyptians took to the streets and squares of Egypt on Wednesday 25th January in commemoration of last year’s momentous Day...

ON DAY 13 of the daily picket of Chase Farm Hospital, which has been called to prepare for occupation to stop its closure,...

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg yesterday made it clear the coalition will press ahead with its Health and Social Care Bill, despite massive opposition...