Tag: nhs

THE past week has been dominated by the sheer arrogance of the Tory-led coalition as it prepares to implement its plans for the wholesale...

GMB members employed by contractor Compass Medirest at Ealing hospital began a seven-day strike at 7.00am today until 7.00am next Friday, 21 March, for...

COALITION ministers have announced a basic 1% pay rise for the public sector, in reality a wage cut with CPI inflation running at 2%. However,...

THE allegedly ‘independent’ pay review bodies have recommended a below-inflation 1% pay ‘increase’ for public sector staff, but no increase at all for hundreds...

MPs passed the Care Bill on Tuesday night, including the hospital closure Clause 119, giving Health Secretary Hunt power to begin a mass...

THE Tory-led coalition will now be able to close all of the hospitals on its hit list, and more as it wishes, to ‘save’...

OVER 100 workers and youth lobbied parliament yesterday afternoon ahead of a vote on the government’s Care Bill which includes the hated ‘Clause 119’...

EGYPT is gripped by a wave of strikes as the working class continues its revolutonary actions along with the country’s youth that have seen...

UNITE is demanding that Clause 119 of the Care Bill, which awards Tory Health Secretary Hunt sweeping powers to close down any hospital he...

A POWERFUL march of more than 150 local residents, trade unionists, workers, students and youth drew enormous support from the busy Enfield shopping centre...

THE government faces a revolt over Clause 119 of the Care Bill today. This clause would give health secretary Hunt and appointed officials powers to...

SACKED Finance Ministry cleaners demanding re-employment, occupied the Athens district tax office in Kallithea yesterday morning. At the same time, state teachers on the ‘mobility...

JAMAHIRIYA NEWS has reported on NATO war crimes in Libya including deformities in new born babies due to the use by NATO of...

GEORGE Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton is in danger of becoming the second NHS hospital to undergo a private sector takeover The foundation trust hospital...

OVER 150 people lobbied the Houses of Parliament yesterday in an angry demonstration against clause 119, which if passed gives Tory Health Secretary Hunt...

The UK’s rail unions joined colleagues from across Europe in Strasbourg on Tuesday to protest against European Commission (EC) plans to impose the privatisation...

HEALTH Secretary Hunt announced yesterday that he is to dissolve the trust that runs Stafford General Hospital, with services set to be downgraded or...

UNISON and the GMB yesterday reacted angrily to the revelation that the hospital records of 47 million NHS patients have been sold to insurance...

A PAPER published in today’s Lancet draws attention to the plight of many of Greece’s most vulnerable groups who are faced with cuts in...

MORE than 34 million patients in England will this year fail to get an appointment with their GP, when seeking treatment, because of the...

UKRAINE’S President Viktor Yanukovych announced early yesterday the terms of the agreement that he had made with the Ukrainian pro-EU, pro-US opposition during talks...

AT LEAST 98 GP practices are threatened with closure as a direct result of Tory coalition funding cuts, doctors union the BMA warned yesterday. The...

AMBULANCE workers in Yorkshire walked out on strike yesterday afternoon for the fourth time in an escalating battle against cuts and changes in...

NONE of the three main parties have very much to shout about over the outcome of the Wythenshawe and Sale East by-election. Labour’s Michael Kane...

THE Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) yesterday warned that the public sector, excluding the NHS and education, faces an ‘alarming’ 40 per cent cut...

EALING Hospital porters, domestic, catering and help desk workers held their second 12-hour strike yesterday. More than 100 GMB members employed by the privateer Medirest...

MORE than 100 Ealing Hospital porters, domestic, catering and help desk workers took their first day of strike action from 6am-6pm yesterday and are...

GREEK health centre workers and doctors, on indefinite strike for over a month, demonstrated once again last Thursday in Athens against a government Bill...

HARD-LINE Tory immigration minister Mark Harper has just resigned after he admitted that he was employing a cleaner who was not legally entitled to...

FINANCIAL pressures could get in the way of the drive to improve care following the Stafford Hospital scandal, experts said yesterday, confirming the obvious,...

SIPTU General President Jack O’Connor has said his union is engaged in a major push for pay increases across the private sector to recover...

AFTER all the fake sound and fury of parliamentary question time, with party leaders locked in apparent combat without quarter given or asked for,...

THE Irish trade union SIPTU has met with the provisional liquidators appointed to Mount Carmel Hospital in Dublin. SIPTU Organiser, Kevin Figgis, said:...

EMERGENCY operations are being cancelled putting hundreds of critically ill patients in danger as hospitals run out of intensive care beds, official figures have...

LABOUR SHADOW chancellor Ed Balls yesterday rejected claims that his pledge that a Labour government will bring back the 50p top rate of income...

US healthcare companies circling to take over the NHS are now ‘on notice’, says the TUC. Speaking after meeting EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht...

Syrian Deputy Premier, Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Walid al-Moallem, opened the Geneva 2 conference in Montreux on Wednesday by insisting on delivering the whole...

Sir Bruce Keogh, the NHS medical director, has said that private companies will be asked to carry out routine operations to relieve pressure on...

‘TODAY, as we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and working families all over the country are coming together in marches for civil...

THE International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have expressed their deep concern about the Greek government’s ‘unacceptable’ plans...

THE death of 2-year-old Muhammad Hashir Maveed last Wednesday is a tragic warning of the cost to human life that must inevitably result from...

DOZENS of Israeli settlers accompanied by Israeli forces early Friday began farming on lands confiscated from Palestinian farmers in a village south of Hebron,...

THERE was a 17% fall in the number of first-year undergraduates at UK universities in the first year of higher tuition fees, the latest...

THE NHS Support Federation yesterday revealed that almost 70% of contracts for NHS services in England between April-December 2013 were awarded to private companies. THE...

YESTERDAY’S closure of ten London fire stations, with the loss of 552 firefighter jobs and the axing of 14 fire engines, shows how little...