Tag: nursing

‘WE have an NHS and maternity service that is heading for a crisis and the government’s policies are clearly failing,’ the leader of the...

‘WE ARE calling for a general strike against the privatisation of the NHS,’ Hands off Huddersfield Royal Infirmary spokesman, Mike Foster, told a demonstration...

THE NUMBER of NHS beds has halved in the last 30 years and proposals to slash bed numbers even further will make the ‘NHS a...

FOLLOWING massive opposition from the public, patients and staff, Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has temporarily suspended plans to pilot a scheme to...

MORE than 12,000 OPSEU (Ontario Public Service Employees Union) college faculty members have been striking at 24 Ontario colleges since Monday October 16. The over...

SMOKERS and people suffering from obesity will be barred from surgery under plans which the Royal College of Surgeons warn tear up the fundamental...

AMERICAN Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) President Lee Saunders issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s decision to end...

TORY health secretary Hunt is trying to create an Uber-style workforce in the NHS, with nurses and hospital staff on flexible working hours, just...

‘CALLING all cyclists – join our Big Bike Ride from Ealing Hospital to Charing Cross Hospital on Sunday morning. And if you’re not...

HEALTH and care providers must examine whether they have enough nursing staff to provide safe patient care this winter, the Royal College of Nursing...

JANET DAVIES the Chief Executive and General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has responded to the Labour Party call for a £500...

FOURTEEN NHS unions submitted a pay claim directly to the May government on behalf of more than one million NHS workers...

A CASE of attempted murder has been opened over the shooting of a 14-year-old boy on a demonstration in Hangberg, Hout Bay, Cape Town...

THE TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady yesterday welcomed six emergency workers to Congress who had been involved in the Manchester, Westminster and Finsbury...

‘SCRAP the cap!’ shouted thousands of nurses from all over the UK rallying in Parliament Square yesterday. The rally was organised by the Royal College...

THERE are not enough nurses to provide safe patient care, shows a survey released today to coincide with a mass lunchtime demonstration...

THE Australian Transport Workers’ Union has accused Aldi of attacking free speech by pursuing a Federal Court case to stop truck drivers from protesting...

GP PRACTICES across three towns in Scotland have been forced to close their lists to new patients amid ongoing GP shortages. Three towns in North...

ONE hundred and fifty consultants employed to draw up the Tories Sustainability and Transformation plans (STPs) were paid combined annual salaries of at least...

A PRIVATE midwifery company now has a contract with ten NHS trusts, with up to 300 women a year using a private midwife during...

PROFESSOR Stephen Hawking has attacked the government’s NHS policies, and health secretary Jeremy Hunt in person, and warned they are seeking to bring in...

MORE than nine in ten of England’s 50 largest NHS hospital trusts are not staffed with nurses to the level planned by their own...

THE LEADER of the Royal College of Nursing yesterday poured scorn on Tory government claims to be increasing the NHS workforce by 10,000 nurses...

MORE than 86,000 NHS posts were vacant between January 2017 and March 2017, figures for the NHS in England suggest. Today’s NHS Vacancy Statistics England...

THE United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) returned to leaflet customers of US Phillips Seafood restaurants in support of The International Union of...

DRAMATIC cuts to district nursing have left older people without care at home and turning to A&E, an independent report has found. Research by Christie...

BOSTON’S first nurses’ strike in 30 years began on Wednesday after a last-ditch negotiating session failed to resolve the disagreements between the Massachusetts...

SOARING university tuition fees, rents in student halls being hiked up, the complete removal of the student grant and the spiralling cost of living...

‘CUTS like this signify a huge step backwards for public health, and will have a damaging impact on people’s health and wellbeing, inevitably costing...

RESPONDING to the latest Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) figures showing more nurses leaving than joining the profession, Janet Davies, Chief Executive and General...

WORKERS, trade unionists and youth on the more than 300,000-strong march from the BBC Broadcasting House to Parliament Square on Saturday demanded that...

‘SCRAP the cap! Fair pay for nurses! Now!’ chanted over fifty nurses and Royal College of Nursing (RCN) officials outside the Department of...

THE TORY ‘government has the NHS running on nothing but fumes’, warns British Medical Association (BMA) Council Chair Dr Mark Porter. Addressing doctors at the...

‘OUR NURSING workforce is in a state of crisis, with more than 40,000 vacancies in England alone across our health service, from A&E to...

ARJINDER Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Ealing Southall was greeted with enormous enthusiasm at Ealing Hospital yesterday. Workers, patients and visitors queued...

THE AFL-CIO has warned of ‘13 Ways the Trump Budget hurts working people’. It says: ‘There are tons of analyses and numbers that could keep...

I’M VOTING Arjinder Thiara, Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall,’ mental health nurse and Unison member Susan Griffiths said at Ealing Hospital yesterday morning. ‘What...

‘I AM joining the fight to elect Jonty Leff because we must defend the NHS, defend Homerton Hospital and defend the Pathology Lab,’ RCN...

STUDENTS enthusiastically joined the campaign to elect Jonty Leff as WRP candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch yesterday. They campaigned hard, giving out leaflets, speaking...

THE VOTE Arj Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall campaign team got great support from Ealing Hospital, Greenford Bus Garage and Southall Mosques,...

‘I AM voting for Jonty Leff Workers Revolutionary Party because I want the Tories out and I want a party which is going to...

THE British Medical Association yesterday welcomed Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s pledge to give the NHS an extra £37 billion over the course of the...

THE VAST majority of nurses are prepared to strike over pay, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned yesterday as it announced a ‘summer...

THE working class must kick out the Tories on June 8th and return Labour to government to set the scene for the struggle for...

EIGHT nurses every day seek urgent help from a support line to cope with the cost of living, new figures released by the RCN...