Tag: hospital

MORE than 400 youth and trade unionists showed their solidarity with the Gate Gourmet sacked workers at a second anniversary benefit rally in Southall...

‘Reject this agreement and carry on with the industrial action,’ Billy Colvill, CWU rep from south east London, yesterday urged the union’s postal executive,...

Sunday 14 October, 2-8pm Southall Community Centre Merrick Road, Southall (nr Southall station) Beat Gate Gourmet & other cheap labour bosses! Support our cases for racial discrimination against...

THE blood price paid by the public for the running of the NHS as a business, with the private sector at its centre and...

US President George W Bush on Wednesday vetoed a bill to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Programme (SCHIP), after it was passed with...

‘THE most dramatic strategic shift of the balance against ordinary citizens, especially the ill and infirm, in over a generation, has been the drive...

THE government’s Healthcare Commission published a report yesterday which called for National Health Service (NHS) hospital trusts to ‘do more to ensure they consistently...

‘Basra Police Chief Abd-al-Jalil Khalaf revealed that there is a conspiracy to assassinate religious figures in Basra Governorate during the holy month of Ramadan,’...

Rationing of NHS treatments is becoming more widespread, a survey of GPs and hospital doctors for ‘Doctor’ and ‘Hospital Doctor’ magazines has found. Of the...

LIBERTY this week asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to determine if Christopher Alder’s death in police custody has been properly investigated...

PALESTINIANS are remembering 25 years since the Sabra and Shatila massacre in the Lebanese capital Beirut – in which over 2,000 defenceless Palestinian refugees...

DELEGATES attending the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday spoke out strongly in support of the Gate Gourmet sacked workers, and the postal workers. This was...

Government ‘reforms’ to primary care have shifted professional control away from general practitioners and financial control away from government, argue senior doctors in this...

LABOUR ministers are boasting that the projected £983m under-spend in the National Health Service are evidence that it has regained its ‘financial footing’. Health Secretary...

‘In the two years since Hurricane Katrina came ashore on the Gulf Coast, the Bush administration has failed miserably to deliver on the president’s...

Public sector union UNISON yesterday called for a ‘fresh start’ in response to a forecasted £983m surplus in the NHS. Mike Jackson, Senior National Officer...

Prison Officers Association (POA) members defied the government yesterday and walked out for the first illegal strike against Labour over public sector...

Health unions yesterday expressed concern after health secretary Alan Johnson endorsed plans to close maternity units at four Greater Manchester hospitals in Rochdale, Salford,...

FOUR Greater Manchester hospitals are to have their maternity units closed in drastic cuts after the Labour government’s health secretary, ex-postman, Alan Johnson frantically...

Scores of health workers, youth, patients, pensioners and local residents took part in yesterday’s picket of Chase Farm Hospital, organised by North East London...

THE Newquay disaster proves what most people knew to be the case – that cuts in the fire service inevitably cost lives. Newquay is...

TEAMSTERS’ General President James P Hoffa has spoken up about the US health care crisis in the wake of the attempts of the Big...

Palestinian Ma’an news agency’s reports on developments in the occupied territories last Friday, August 3rd, illustrate the heroic daily resistance of the Palestinian people. At...

UNISON yesterday told its members that the barely improved health employers offer which has been approved by the Brown government is ‘the best that...

THE trade unions must take joint action with the postal workers to defend their members’ jobs and basic rights. They must go forward to bring...

All the public sector trade unions must unite for action to bring down the Brown government and replace it with a workers government and...

Senior doctors yesterday renewed a warning that private treatment centres are putting patient care at risk and destabilising the NHS. The British Medical Association (BMA)...

HUNDREDS of people took part in Tuesday’s picket by North East London Council of Action against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital A&E and...

Health minister Ara Darzi’s plans ‘are a massive attack on hospital care in London’, warned consultant surgeon Anna Athow yesterday. Darzi is conducting...

THE North East London Council of Action yesterday held a successful picket against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital A&E, maternity and paediatric departments. Hundreds...

Over 60 people protested outside St Helier Hospital in Carshalton, Surrey, yesterday morning, against the ‘downgrading’ of its sister Epsom Hospital. The protest was called...

The family of Nadeem Dean Khan led a 200-strong demonstration through Burnley, Lancashire, on Saturday to protest against the 28-year-old man’s death in police...

THE Communication Workers Union yesterday announced its latest plans for strike action after the first national strike for a decade last week, which was...

THE British Medical Association (BMA) leadership had a plan for the 2007 Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Torquay last week. They wanted to push through...

A CALL for ‘appropriate industrial action to stop the redundancy of its members’ was made to BMA representatives at the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting...

The BMA leadership was defeated yesterday when the association’s Annual Representative Meeting overwhelmingly carried Motion 65 against the purchaser-provider split in the NHS. This split...

THE British Medical Association’s (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM), which opens in Torquay today, gathers at a time of unprecedented challenges for the medical...

DELEGATES at the UNISON National Delegate Conference in Brighton on Thursday forced a debate on Friday on coordinated action over soon-to-be prime minister Brown’s...

Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Clinical Strategy Board has made it clear that it is rapidly proceeding with the closure of Chase Farm Accident and...

The UNI Communicators Forum, attended by union communicators from across the globe, has received a report on Australia’s unions’ battle for the rights of...

OVER 20,000 youth, trade unionists and solidarity activists marched through central London on Saturday demanding ‘End the occupation – free Palestine!’ on the...

ANGER over the junior doctors training debacle saw hospital consultants on Wednesday demand the ‘immediate resignation’ of NHS Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Liam Donaldson. The...

OVER 100 workers, youth, pensioners and NHS staff from inside the hospital participated in the North East London Council of Action picket to...

The BMA Consul-tants Conference yesterday heard a call for trade union action to defend the NHS from cuts and privatisation. Moving Motion 138 from North-East...

OVER 100 workers, youth, pensioners and NHS staff from inside the hospital participated in the North East London Council of Action picket to...