Tag: nhs

‘STOP the killing, stop the crime! Free, free Palestine! Israel is a terror state!’, over 2,000 protesters shouted at a picket of...

THE murderous, cowardly missile attack by Israel on Gaza, which killed Ahmed al-Jaabari along with 10 other Palestinians including two children, was a long-planned attack...

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned yesterday that the NHS is ‘sleepwalking into a crisis’, and demanded immediate action to stop trusts cutting...

Last Friday the administrator brought in to wind down the collapsed electrical retailer chain Comet announced that 330 staff would be made redundant with...

250,000 workers, youth and professionals demonstrated outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in central Athens last Wednesday evening against the Austerities Measures Bill. They were demanding...

UNISON said yesterday that it was truly shocked by the scale of job losses and call centre closures announced by NHS Direct, warning that...

HUNDREDS of thousands of Greek workers and youth congregated on Wednesday evening and late into the night outside the Vouli (parliament) in...

THE report by the National Audit Office (NAO) into the running of Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire gives official and damming evidence of the plundering...

‘THE National Audit Office (NAO) report into the running of Hinchingbrooke Hospital by private company Circle, should act as a warning of the dangers...

‘CUTS will cost lives,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) general secretary Matt Wrack insisted yesterday. He was addressing a 500-strong rally in Westminster of FBU delegations...

SCOTLAND'S hospital doctors began balloting for strike action yesterday, against the Scottish government’s attacks on the NHS pension scheme. If the ballot gives the go-ahead,...

LABOUR is presenting new evidence to parliament today showing moves to break away from national pay in the NHS are spreading across England. A...

LAST week the two main Greek trade union organisations representing workers in the public and private sector called a two-day general strike starting today...

ABDEL-Moneim Abul-Fotouh, a physician and a former 2012 presidential candidate, has called on Eyptian president Mohamed Mursi to heed the demands of medical doctors. The...

EPSOM and St Helier University Hospitals Trust may be the next to enter the Unsustainable Provider Regime as was triggered for South London Healthcare...

THE British Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday angrily condemned the news that the Treasury has clawed back nearly...

IN A devastating report published yesterday on the NHS crisis, the Public Accounts Committee of MPs revealed that 34 NHS trusts are broke. The report...

PROPOSALS for mass sackings and closures of local A&E and Maternity units were revealed at a south London press conference on Monday. The government-appointed Trust...

TORY attempts to convince the working class, the middle class and the poor that the ‘recovery’ has begun and things are looking better, are...

More than 200 workers and youth got massive support from residents and shoppers as they marched through east London on Sunday, to a rally...

PROPOSALS for mass sackings and closures of local A&E and Maternity units were yesterday revealed at a press conference called by the government-appointed administrator...

UP TO 200 WRP and YS members and supporters marched through East London yesterday on the 43rd anniversary of the News Line daily newspaper...

HEALTH trade union members in Bristol will be protesting outside the Bristol Royal Infirmary on Tuesday, 30 October against plans by the South West...

OVER a hundred Libyans living in Britain demonstrated outside Downing Street on Wednesday demanding that the bloody assault on Bani Walid be stopped. One of...

‘TIME to care for those who care’ or face the prospect of massive industrial unrest is the message behind UNISON’s evidence to the NHS...

GPs are angry that the government intends to impose changes to their contracts. There are huge implications in the Department of Health’s proposed imposed changes,...

500,000 angry workers, trade unionists and youth marched in London, Glasgow and Belfast against the Tory-LibDem Coalition government and its cuts and privatisation programme...

SATURDAY’S mass marches in London, Glasgow and Belfast were marches to bring down the coalition, regardless of the intentions of their TUC organisers who...

CHANTING ‘It’s their crisis – the solution is uprising!’; ‘Down with the government and the troika of the EC-IMF-ECB. The time has come...

TODAY’S march called by the TUC must not be just another mass demonstration against the drive by this coalition to bail out the banks...

CAPITALISM is a worldwide system dominating the whole planet, in which there is no national solution to the problems brought about by the latest...

NEW research published in The Lancet has uncovered the hidden health toll that refugee life in Lebanon has taken on more than 400,000 Palestinians. The...

THE local community, backed by Unison, has launched a campaign to stop the privatisation of the patient transport service (PTS) within Greater Manchester. At a...

OVER 60,000 workers and youth, in angry and militant mood, defied the riot police and demonstrated at a rally in front of the Vouli...

UNIONS are furious at the plans to make savage cuts in the NHS in Northern Ireland. The plan, called ‘Transforming Your Care’, is based on...

UNISON has launched a campaign to save patient transport services in Greater Manchester and stop them from being sold off to a private company....

THE GSEE (Greek TUC) has declared that it intends to defy today’s ban on demonstrations and marches which was announced by Athens Area Chief...

UP TO 5,000 workers and local residents marched in west London against the closures of Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals on Saturday. The angry demonstration...

PRIME minister Cameron yesterday revealed on the eve of the Tory Party conference that the government is planning to slash welfare by another £16...

‘OUR NHS is in distress’, Royal College of GPs (RCGP) Chair Dr Clare Gerada has warned. Addressing nearly 2,000 GPs and health professionals at the...

IN HIS first interview since becoming the coalition Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt spelt out bluntly that capitalism could no longer afford a national health...

THOUSANDS are marching through west London against hospital closures today, determined that Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Central Middlesex and Ealing hospitals will not close. Today’s march...

THE British Medical Association yesterday expressed concern for the future of the NHS, after Health Secretary Hunt signalled more savage cuts. A BMA spokesperson said:...

CASES of torture in police stations continue in Egypt despite an uprising that ostensibly began against police brutality, Amnesty International says. The recent case of...

TUESDAY'S speech to the Labour Party conference has been greeted with an outpouring of joy from the leadership of the trade unions and the...