Tag: nhs

THE GAUNTLET has been thrown down on hospital demolition plans with health bosses told to ‘think again’, said Hammersmith & Fulham...

CAMERON was in threatening mode on Monday in his statement to the House of Commons. He said that President Putin must use his influence to...

FOR the first time in history midwives are uniting with other health workers to ballot for strike action, in an escalating fight over...

AN ISRAELI tank shell smashed into the third and fourth floor of the Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza yesterday morning, killing four people and...

THE Palestinian resistance is drawing a new path for the Palestinian people and will continue until the basic goal of ending the siege imposed...

‘FREE, Free Palestine! Gaza, Gaza we will never let you go! From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!’ chanted angry protesters...

UNITE leader Len McCluskey visited locked out NHS biomedical staff yesterday to highlight the appalling treatment they’ve received at the hands of their NHS...

LIBYA’S Interim Government has called on the two sides in the violent clashes between rival militias in the surrounds of Tripoli International Airport, which...

NHS patients from outside the EU are to be charged 150% of the cost of treatment in the NHS. This is part of a ‘crackdown’...

THE government is planning to strip mentally ill people of their state benefits if they do not agree to undergo treatment for anxiety and...

TWO million teachers, education support workers, lecturers, local government workers, firefighters, civil servants and other public sector workers went on a 24-hour strike on...

TWO million public sector workers took one-day strike action yesterday, against pay cuts and government attacks on pensions. There were rallies, and protests all...

‘TODAY’S huge strike of public sector workers expresses the great anger felt throughout the working class at the huge austerity cuts, including pay cuts,...

THREE thousand doctors, NHS staff, patients and supporters last Saturday marched from Aldgate to London Fields in east London. The march was organised to protest...

WHEN the Tory education minister, Michael Gove, dumped the Labour peer Sally Morgan from her post as Chair of Ofsted, last January, his action...

UNITE and Unison rebutted threats issued by Cabinet Secretary Francis Maude yesterday morning, in which he poured Tory vitriol on this Thursday’s mass one-day...

THEY are smashing up the NHS as founded in 1948. The health service in England Wales and Northern Ireland is in huge crisis. Cuts...

WITH 23,000 beds being cut from hospital wards over the last four years alone, the entire trade union movement must immediately move into action...

UNISON has demanded a ‘full disclosure’ of moves to privatise Staffordshire cancer services and warned NHS commissioners that ‘secrecy is against the public interest’. The...

LEN McCluskey, addressing the Unite policy conference in Liverpool yesterday, stated that the unions and the NHS face ‘the fight of our lives’ to see...

THE Prison Officers Association (POA) have condemned a government scheme to form a reserve force for England and Wales to help it respond to...

FORMER drivers, who used to work on the Tesco distribution contract in Doncaster, staged a demonstration yesterday at the Tesco AGM in London, protesting...

CAMERON’S great achievement thus far has been to use the capitalist slump to push society backwards so that the rich are getting richer and...

THE Young Socialists held a very successful meeting, on the evening of the first day of the BMA Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Harrogate,...

DR MARK Porter, Chair of the British Medical Association Council, opened their annual representatives meeting with a speech that tore into the policies of...

DOCTORS at the British Medical Association’s (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Harrogate yesterday voted overwhelmingly in opposition to NHS privatisation and...

THE Tory coalition is accelerating its onslaught on the NHS. Every structure that was good in our publicly provided NHS is being destabilised and...

LAST Thursday the government announced that it was starting a consultation process on its plans to widen the student loans system in further education...

NURSES at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Annual Congress in Liverpool voted by a massive 91% majority against NHS charging yesterday. Delegates at the...

FOLLOWING similar warnings by the King’s Fund and other bodies, the BBC has announced that the NHS in England faces a...

DISTRICT nurses face ‘extinction’ by 2025 unless the Tory coalition government launches a mass recruitment campaign and funds an extra 10,000 nurses, warned the...

The devastating closures of the accident and emergency departments at Hammersmith Hospital and Central Middlesex Hospital are set to take place on 10th September,...

FAR too many young Canadian workers are either unemployed or underemployed and governments must come up with a strategy to solve the problem –...

‘WHOSE GP surgeries? Our GP surgeries?’ rang out through the streets of east London as over 200 local residents, trade unionists, health...

OVER 200 patients, health professionals, union members and campaigners marched through east London yesterday against cuts to GP surgeries which threaten the closure of...

DOCTORS’ leaders, Unison general secretary Dave Prentis and TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady joined paramedics, nurses, midwives and physiotherapists in a protest outside the...

TODAY, GPs and their supporters will be marching through Tower Hamlets to demand proper funding of GP surgeries, which are threatened with closure due...

A ‘CRIPPLING’ lack of beds for mental health patients has reached such a crisis point that patients are being sent home, told to camp...

THE German magazine Der Spiegel says British PM David Cameron warned EU leaders that the UK could leave the EU if Luxembourg’s ex-PM Jean-Claude...

GPs have been told by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) they will have to hit targets for cutting emergency admission rates. If they do not they...

SIMON Stevens the new Chief Executive of NHS England is no stranger to the NHS and the struggle to privatise it. He was chief...

SIMON Stevens, the Chief Executive of NHS England, has announced his plan for closing major District General Hospitals in England and replacing them...

THE BMA’s conference of Local Medical Committees on the 22/23rd May 2014 exposed a huge crisis in UK general practice. This came out in...

ON Saturday, President Bashar al-Assad received a Russian governmental delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, Head of the Russian side to the...

THE crisis in primary care was the topic of an open microphone discussion at the LMC GPs conference in York yesterday morning. Speaker after...