Tag: nhs

Over 50 doctors and their supporters organised a demonstration outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, East London yesterday during their strike over major...

EVERY TRADE UNION and all trade unionists must support today’s 24 hour strike action by the BMA doctors’ trade union, and must be demanding...

DOCTORS are on strike in defence of their pensions all over the country today. Dr Hamish Meldrum, chair of the BMA’s council, said: ‘Doctors are...

THAT the Health and Social Care Act is all about privatising the NHS and handing it over to the private sector via the new...

IT HAS emerged that Leveson, whose current inquiry was brought into being by Prime Minister Cameron, complained to the UK’s top civil servant after...

CHANCELLOR Osborne was in the mood for sacrifices on Tuesday and as is his way, the way of the British bourgeoisie, these sacrifices were...

A KING’S Fund survey shows public satisfaction with the way the NHS is run fell from 70% in 2010 (the year that Tory...

GMB leader Paul Kenny has told delegates to the GMB conference that the GMB wants a greater say in Labour’s policy making process. The truth,...

Serco, the country’s top privateer in the NHS and other public services, is under investigation over allegations that it ran an ‘unsafe’ GP out-of-hours...

NURSES in South West England are furious over leaked plans to sack and re-hire them on lower pay and worse conditions. The government is...

THE BMA LEADERSHIP has now called a 24-hour day of action on Thursday 21 June, during which only emergency or urgent care will be...

DOCTORS will take strike action in defence of their NHS pension scheme on Thursday June 21st, the BMA confirmed yesterday, following an overwhelming YES...

The Greek Chemist shops Association staged a 24-hour national strike yesterday demanding the payment by the Health Ministry of some 500 million euros owed...

The University and College Union (UCU) on Wednesday called on the government to urgently protect healthcare education funding after MPs warned that delays in...

GPs at their annual conference in Liverpool yesterday voted in favour of a motion calling for the end of the work capability assessment. The doctors,...

MOVES by a Midlands hospital trust to recruit unpaid ‘jobseekers’ to clean wards and ‘support patients through their hospital experience’ were condemned by a...

Delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) Junior Doctors conference on Saturday, against the advice of their leaders, voted overwhelmingly to demand health secretary...

The economic and political crisis in the Eurozone countries is now firmly expressing itself in Germany, the dominant capitalist nation in Europe and the...

Nurses at the RCN Annual Conference in Harrogate yesterday heckled and poured scorn on claims by Health Secretary Lansley that clinical staffing levels in...

The Royal College of Nursing yesterday called for a halt to the closure of hospital beds until trusts can clearly demonstrate that alternative, tried...

THE government’s claims about numbers of civil servants on strike over pensions are wildly inaccurate, the Public and Commercial Services union has insisted. Nearly...

ACROSS the UK, hundreds of thousands of public sector workers were on strike yesterday against government plans to make them work longer and pay...

Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi said on Sunday that Palestinian prisoners would remain united in their support for fellow prisoners on hunger-strike. Prisoners affiliated to...

THE Tories are down but they are not out! The trade unions must mobilise for action at once to deliver a knock-out blow to...

THE Tories and the LibDems were whipped around the country in the council elections, with Labour retaking Liverpool and numerous cities and towns, as...

Public sector union Unison yesterday said that some of its worst fears are coming true over NHS privatisation. This came after it was revealed that...

NEWS LINE urges all of its readers and supporters to vote for Ken Livingstone in the London Mayoral elections today, and to vote Labour...

TENS of thousands of workers and youth held strong anti-government marches and rallies in all Greek cities and towns on May Day. Seafarers, railway,...

‘A socialist revolution in this country will open up the whole of the world,’ Frank Sweeney, the General Secretary of the Workers Revolutionary Party,...

Half a million workers will be taking strike action on May 10th, PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka told the mass rally at the end...

It’s now official – NHS hospitals under the Tory-dominated coalition government are set to become little more than a franchise of the leisure and...

In his Annual Report published last Tuesday, the Bank of Greece governor Yiorghos Provopoulos spelled out clearly what is demanded by the European Commission...

Interim results from the National Union of Students (NUS) ‘The Pound in your Pocket’ survey of students’ perceptions of financial support show that two-thirds...

The imperialist-backed Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) ‘must act immediately to investigate and prosecute abuses against the Tawargha community of black Libyans’, said Amnesty...

Public sector union Unison yesterday slammed Health Secretary Lansley’s backing for Chancellor Osborne’s plan for regional pay. This comes in evidence from the Department of...

THE Tory LibDem coalition, despite all its problems and weaknesses, waged a war to bring its Health and Social Care privatising bill into law. They...

THE European banks are heading at speed into a crash that will bring down not just the economies of the 17-nation Eurozone but the...

HUNDREDS of thousands of public sector workers are striking in defence of their pensions on Thursday May 10th. The strike comes the day after the...

GMB trade union officers, representing 150 GMB members employed by Carillion at Great Western Hospital in Swindon, expect the company to reach conclusions by...

SOARING food and clothing prices saw the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate measure for March rising to 3.5% from 3.4% in February. The Office...

LABOUR Party leader Miliband said on Thursday that both national and local factors were to blame for the party’s massive defeat at the hands...

THE article in the News Line last Wednesday brought back not just memories of my personal involvement in the campaign led by the Young...

THE Hewletts came straight to the point yesterday over the plan to close Chase Farm hospital. ‘We should sack Lansley and the whole government to...

THE UK has been accused of permitting an alleged war-criminal to escape prosecution. Tamil Net has reported that questions have been raised over the failure...

More than 400 posts are at risk at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust as part of proposals to save £30 million in the...