Tag: nhs

GPs yesterday opposed plans by Virgin Healthcare to offer GPs 10% of the profits it plans to make from private services including dentistry, therapies...

A strike by 4,000 Registered Nurses (RNs) at ten San Francisco Bay Area, California, Sutter facilities has concluded with nurses walking together back into...

NURSES and other NHS workers have been offered a three-year pay deal worth 8% by the government. NHS trade union leaders who are prepared...

The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday rejected an 8% over three years pay-cutting NHS Pay Review Body offer, which is backed by the...

THE Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who once boasted that he had resolved the crisis of capitalism and its tendency to go from boom to...

MEMBERS of the 270,000-strong National Union of Teachers (NUT), Britain’s largest teaching union are to take strike action on April 24 over pay. They...

Doctors’ leaders yesterday warned that the government’s proposed screening programme for all those over 40 years of age lacked scientific evidence and could lead...

AROUND 150 people marched from Blackheath past Lewisham Hospital to a rally in Ladywell Park on Saturday, against plans to shut the south London...

SCHOOLS Secretary Ed Balls and his predecessor Alan Johnson have given the go-head to the sell-off of 19 school playing fields over the past...

The Independent Asylum Commission (IAC) on Thursday issued its interim report on its nationwide citizens review of the UK asylum system. In 2006 the then...

HEALTH workers, trade unionists, pensioners and residents from the SE London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley are marching today against plans to...

A ‘service reconfiguration’ for  Outer South East London Service is being proposed. Outer South East London comprises the boroughs of Greenwich, Lewisham, Bexley and Bromley....

THIS book shows that Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) have been introduced to give contracts to private companies to provide care for NHS patients,...

OVER 400 people attended the Chagos Islands Community Association rally in central London on Saturday evening, to demand the Chagossians’ right to return to...

All District General Hospitals in the South East London area are to be ‘radically overhauled’ with their Accident & Emergency facilities closed, according to...

A JUDICIAL Review sought by the British Medical Association to challenge the government’s decision to cap the pensions of GPs will take place in...

PREMIER Brown’s pre-budget comment piece in the Financial Times was written so that he could talk directly to his constituency, the bosses. He...

‘No polyclinics! Save our surgeries!’ shouted over fifty Rugby GPs, medical staff and supporters during a town centre protest on Saturday. Carrying banners and wearing...

THE battle to stop all NHS cuts is now raging up and down the country. However, the private predators are gathering. Near Horsham last Thursday night...

RETROSPECTIVE changes to the Highly Skilled Migration Programme (HSMP) which originally passed into law in 2006 will mean thousands of non-EU migrants being forced...

There is no good evidence that independent sector treatment centres have provided additional capacity, value for money, or high quality care, argue researchers in...

Yesterday the government launched major attacks on workers and immigrants. Ministers announced plans to strip unemployed people of their benefits, force long term sick and...

THE class message of the Labour government is clear. It is that if you’re a banker, you can do no wrong and are...

‘We have to keep this hospital open,’ said workers and youth taking part in a fifty-strong picket of Chase Farm Hospital, yesterday, organised...

‘The skyrocketing costs of our nation’s failing health care system are hitting employers hard and that means higher costs for all of us,’ says...

PRIME Minister Gordon Brown’s government is targeting General Practitioners (GPs) in its rush to privatise the National Health Service (NHS). Two key barriers to a...

Public sector union UNISON yesterday joined doctors in opposing government plans to replace NHS-run GP surgeries with ‘polyclinics’. ‘We are opposed to privately-run polyclinics,’ A...

Some 100,000 workers demonstrated through the Athens city centre last Wednesday as part of the one-day general strike called by the GSEE (Greek TUC)...

‘UNISON warned from the beginning that ISTC (Independent Sector Treatment Centre) contracts were too rigid and expensive and would destabilise local NHS hospitals’, said...

The British Medical Association has condemned the government for putting GPs into an impossible position and forcing them to choose between ‘two bad...

THE Brown government has bullied NHS GPs in the most brutal and cowardly fashion, and has given them an offer that they could not...

OVER 800 people attended the latest fortnightly picket outside Downing Street on Saturday to demand: ‘End the siege on Gaza!’ Thousands have taken part in...

Seven Palestinians were killed in Israeli air raids in several parts of the Gaza Strip yesterday and on Wednesday. Five of the victims were activists...

UNEMPLOYED council and housing association tenants must be made to sign a new tenancy agreement under which they will agree to have their skill...

The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) has stepped up the international campaign to get the sanctions and siege of Gaza lifted. In its latest ‘update on...

The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday rebutted the government’s attack on the BMA leadership over family doctors’ opening hours. Laurence Buckman, chairman of the BMA’s...

A total of 184 arts organisations have had 100 per cent of their funding withdrawn, Arts Council England announced yesterday. While it said that 17...

LOCAL residents, trade unions and doctors have joined together to fight the privatisation of the National Health Service in Tower Hamlets. Two hundred people staged...

‘PATIENTS before profits, defend the NHS!’ shouted around 200 demonstrators outside St Paul’s Way General Practice yesterday, opposing the take-over of the doctors surgery...

THERE is an anti-privatisation protest to defend the NHS taking place outside St Paul’s Way Medical Centre tomorrow from 2pm to 3pm. GPs and...

THE deeper the crisis of the capitalist system gets, the more desperate the measures that it takes to sustain the bosses and bankers’ system,...

ISRAEL has turned Gaza into a ‘concentration camp’, demonstrators warned on Thursday night, at an emergency picket opposite Downing Street attended by over 50...

The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday insisted it is ‘fighting to preserve the NHS’. Responding to a news article in Pulse magazine on the BMA’s...

TUESDAY’S mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital heard that the decision to close the hospital’s A&E, Maternity and Paediatric Departments has been ‘put on...

On January 7th 2008, prime minister Gordon Brown made a key policy speech on the NHS, in which he called for ‘continued reform’ and...