Tag: nhs
Warrington NHS Trust Cancels ‘Privatisation From Within’ Plan
THE WARRINGTON and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been forced by an enormous outburst of mass anger to cancel a scheme allowing patients...
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NEW GP CONTRACT – it introduces American...
THE TITLE of the new GP contract is ‘Investment and evolution: A five-year framework for GP contract reform to implement the NHS Long Term...
25.9 million refugees – 70.8 million displaced says Global Trends report...
YET AGAIN, wars, violence and persecution have driven record numbers of people from their homes worldwide, according to the latest annual study released yesterday...
REJECT JUNIOR DOCTORS CONTRACT! – says the Doctors’ Association
THE Doctors’ Association (DAUK) has refused to endorse the junior doctor contract deal agreed by the BMA and the government, warning that some members...
11,000 Residents & Supporters Join Grenfell Silent Walk
MORE than 11,000 local residents and supporters joined last Friday evening’s 2nd Anniversary Silent Walk to commemorate the victims of the Grenfell Tower Fire...
URGENT ACTION NEEDED! – to prevent another Grenfell says the FBU
THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) called today for urgent action on a range of fire and building safety issues to prevent another Grenfell. On the...
‘INSULTING KICK IN THE TEETH FOR WINDRUSH GENERATION!’ –David Lammy MP...
AS A PARTING shot and final ‘kick in the teeth’ to the Windrush Generation, Theresa May has awarded a knighthood to the Home Office...
Health privateer takes NHS to court over right to profit from...
PRIVATEER Circle Health is once again taking legal action to overturn the decision to cancel its contract to run the Nottingham NHS Treatment Centre. Rushcliffe...
Speaker determined to stop Brexit! Organise the General Strike to shut...
TORY leadership candidate Dominic Raab has threatened to prorogue Parliament, shutting it down at the end of October to ensure that the UK leaves...
‘THE NHS IS BEING SOLD OFF AS WE SPEAK!’ – ...
THE British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday urged all Conservative Party leadership candidates to commit to excluding the NHS from any post-Brexit trade deals. In a...
UK workers must bring down Trump’s Tories to leave the EU...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has named three of his Tory candidates to replace May as the prime minister of his choice. All three of Trump’s...
‘Our NHS is not for sale to the US!’ – Corbyn...
‘THIS SHOULD not be a debate about how we go forward with a no deal Brexit and at the same time offering up our...
Sudanese workers must form a workers’ government to rule Sudan!
SUDAN’S military leaders have scrapped all existing agreements with the main opposition coalition, and have cynically declared they will hold elections within nine months. The...
Burning of the US embassy in Honduras ‘a provocation’ says former...
A TEACHER has been arrested for allegedly setting the US embassy in Honduras on fire last Friday, following police repression of educators and doctors who are protesting against privatisations. A group...
‘Streets of Shame: Homelessness and the NHS – a Tome of...
THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has published ‘Streets of Shame: Homelessness and the NHS – a tome of tragedies,’ in which homeless people and...
US and UK workers must bring down Trump and the Tories...
DONALD TRUMP has arrived in the UK to try his hand at regime change. He is treating the UK ruling class with supreme contempt, as...
138 GP Surgeries Shut Last Year!
ONE HUNDRED and thirty-eight GP surgeries shut last year, compared to 18 the previous year, the latest GP workforce figures from NHS Digital show,...
Judiciary Now Leading The Charge Against 2016 Referendum!
WE ARE now reaching the moment of truth in the struggle to carry out the result of the 2016 referendum which instructed Parliament that...
Poa Backing Corbyn
The POA (Prison Officers Association) is backing labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his Shadow Cabinet ‘to come through the setback of the EU elections...
70,000 Nurses Shortfall In Next 5 Years
A LEAKED copy of the Tory government report into the NHS staffing crisis reveals that there is set to be a shortfall of nearly...
Nine Yemenis killed by Saudi airstrikes!
AT LEAST nine Yemenis were killed late last week as Saudi-led military aircraft carried out a string of airstrikes against an area in Yemen’s...
Kick May And The Tories Out Now With A General Strike!...
PM MAY yesterday morning announced she was resigning as Tory leader and Prime Minister in two weeks on June 7. May said that the...
‘MAY’S TIME HAS RUN OUT!’ – Corbyn calls for general election
TORY PM Theresa May’s ‘time has run out,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Parliament yesterday. He added: ‘She no longer has the authority to offer...
Lack Of Support Letting Down Vulnerable Children
VULNERABLE children are being let down says Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, criticising the use of restraint and seclusion. On Monday she published...
Safe staffing levels now! demands RCN
NURSES at their annual RCN (Royal College of Nursing) conference in Liverpool yesterday demanded that NHSEngland finally adopts a Safe Staffing Level, requiring by...
Strip Capita!
A DEVASTATING ‘blunder’ that saw 160,000 patient records wrongly archived is the latest unacceptable failing from Capita, doctors union BMA (British Medical Association) said...
Junior doctors be warned over the new GPs contract!
JUNIOR doctors be warned. A historic new GP contract has been quietly negotiated by the BMA and NHSEngland, designed to catapult NHS healthcare into...
Occupy Honda, Call A General Strike To Bring Down The Tories,...
THE Unite trade union has described Honda’s decision to press ahead with the closure of its Swindon plant by 2021 as a ‘body-blow of...
One Day in Gaza award-winning documentary
One Day in Gaza Shown on BBC 2 Monday 13 May 2019 Now available on BBC iPlayer MADE by award-winning documentary maker Olly Lambert, One Day in...
France Telecom ‘Modernisation’ Led To 19 Suicides
‘A LONG-AWAITED trial began on Monday in Paris, accusing telecom giant Orange and seven former or current managers of moral harassment and related charges,’...
‘Patients treated on trolleys’ – crisis intensifies
‘TREATING patients on corridor trolleys should belong to a bygone era. Ministers must stop us heading back there at all costs. ‘It’s undignified and less...
‘Break with EU now’ demands May Day meeting
Following the May Day march last Wednesday, 1st May, the Workers Revolutionary Party and the Young Socialists, held a lively meeting in Covent Garden. Chairman Jonty...
NHS CANCER SERVICES ‘Worst winter crisis ever’
NHS CANCER services plunged into the worst winter on record as patients were left waiting weeks for treatment, warns a new BMA report Doctors’ leaders...
Get out of the EU now! – RMT’s Cash tells May...
‘GET OUT of the EU now,’ RMT general secretary Mick Cash told the May Day rally in Trafalgar Square at the end of the...
New Zealand junior doctors strike!
Thousands of New Zealand junior doctors walked off the job for a record five days from Monday in the fifth and longest strike for...
BMA & RCGP deny supporting Tory ‘fit notes’ and ESA cuts
THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) have sought to repudiate the claims by the Department of Work...
Palestinian Flag Raised On Mount Everest
RAISING the flag for Palestine 5,400 metres above sea level, following six days and 100 kilometres of walking and climbing mountains, 27 Palestinian men...
80% of doctors at very high – BMA report
BOTH junior doctors and seniors are facing serious burn out because of lack of staff, overwork and stress, and this has created a serious...
Upfront fees deter patients – Immigrants denied cancer treatment says BMA
PATIENTS from other countries are failing to get the urgent cancer treatment they need, because of upfront fees. These fees are ‘deterring immigrants from...
Half of England owned by less than 1% of the population!...
THIS YEAR an estimated 4,677 people a night are sleeping rough on the streets of Britain, a figure that has increased for the past...
Safe staffing dumped!
THE MAY government has dropped its key NHS ‘safe staffing’ measure. This means that nurse staffing fill rate data are no longer being published. This change...
Bawa-Garba Victory
DOCTOR Hadiza Bawa-Garba, who was struck off the medical register, has won a further victory and will now be allowed to start working as...
ISS cleaners protest today in Manchester
cleaners working for ISS on the Arriva Rail North contract will be holding a protest today, Wednesday 10th April, outside Manchester Victoria station between...
Welsh landlords refusing housing benefit tenants!
a fifth of lettings advertised in Wales explicitly exclude people in receipt of housing benefit, a practice the homelessness charity Shelter Cymru has labelled...
‘Privatisation At Chesterfield Has Driven Out Staff!’
‘THIS IS bad news for staff and for patients,’ Unison’s head of health Sara Gorton has warned. ‘The changes are built on savings from employing...