Tag: nursing
Student nurses to be forced to pay for training!
THE results of the ‘consultation’ launched by the Tories on the 7th April on the proposal to end NHS funded bursaries for student...
Reverse NHS funding cuts! – RCN responds to new health report
‘YEARS of squeezing more and more out of an overstretched workforce has left the NHS in a perilous position,’ the Royal College of Nursing...
Reducing staff levels puts patients at risk
THE ROYAL Colleges, nurses, and NHS workers have reacted angrily to NHS Improvement chief executive Jim Mackey’s outrageous comments that ‘safe staffing levels had...
NURSES FACE SACK! –no more bail-outs says Mackey
NURSES and other vital health workers face the sack within weeks, Jim Mackey, the chief executive of NHS Improvement, the body which is now...
DAYS OF PUTTING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS INTO PRIVATE HEALTH RECRUITMENT AGENCIES...
SIPTU is demanding that the Irish government immediately lift the recruitment embargo in the health service and phase out excessive payments to private ‘for...
The Nehawu trade union is battling against South African Parliament!
A DISPUTE between workers in the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) and the South African Parliament is building. The workers are employees...
Ealing mass picket condemns the closure of Children’s Ward
A LOUD and angry mass picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning condemned the closure of the Charlie Chaplin children’s ward and the barring of...
Powerful march demands ‘Stop closure of children’s services in Ealing’
‘SAVE the Charlie Chaplin Ward, stop the closure of Children’s Services!’ demanded yesterday morning’s 7am-9am Mass Picket of Ealing Hospital. The picket was called by...
Ten thousand nurses begin strike action in the USA
TEN THOUSAND nurses began strikes this week, in the states of Minnesota, California and Massachusetts. The strikes were called by National Nurses United (NNU) over...
Ontario Nurses Under Attack!
THE firing of the head nurse at London Health Sciences Centre illustrates a larger systemic problem of hospital bosses trying to muzzle their staff,...
Trade unions must unite to defend bursaries and stop hospital closures!
TWO very important NHS trade union conferences are currently taking place this week, the RCN, nurses union, and the BMA doctors. Already the RCN supported...
HALT ATTACK ON BURSARIES – RCN, BMA, Unison, Unite, RCM urge...
LED by the RCN, a coalition of over 20 health care trade unions, charities and professional colleges yesterday called on the government to...
Occupy to save children’s services at Ealing
‘SAVE the Charlie Chaplin children’s ward! Don’t let it close!’ shouted over fifty local residents, workers and campaigners at the mass picket of Ealing...
‘Don’t cut our bursaries!’ say student nurses
‘BURSARIES or bust! Jeremy bite the dust!’ chanted over a thousand student nurses as they marched to Downing Street on Saturday in their campaign...
Nurses Marching Today
A SURVEY of over 17,000 nursing staff has raised concerns that government plans to scrap student nurse bursaries will lead to even greater staff...
Keep Ealing Children’s Ward Open!
‘CHILDREN can get meningitis. If they have to take a child all the way to Northwick Park Hospital they could die on the way!’...
Steel workers & student nurses rally while university lecturers and Rio...
‘SAVE Our Steel!’ shouted over one thousand steel workers as they marched through central London from the Embankment to Parliament yesterday afternoon. They were joined...
Defend our bursaries!
STUDENT nurses, midwives and other NHS students lobbied parliament yesterday to demand that the Tories’ plan to abolish the student bursary and replace it...
Workers march in London! Time to call general strike!
YESTERDAY, steelworkers were marching for their jobs to parliament, defending an industry that is being deliberately destroyed, while university lecturers were taking the first...
Restore NHS bursaries – Student nurses & midwives lobby today
STUDENT nurses and midwives are lobbying parliament today in opposition to Tory plans to end the student bursaries by August 2017. And a national march...
‘Save Ealing Hospital – Defend The Children’s Services!’
‘SAVE Charlie Chaplin ward – Don’t let it close! Save Ealing Hospital – Trade unions must act! Defend children’s services – Occupy now!’ demanded...
TORIES CREATING TWO-TIER HEALTH SYSTEM – as well as privatising higher...
‘EXTENDING NHS charging for migrants will create a discriminatory two-tier health system and increase costs,’ the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI)...
Government failing NHS – says BMA leader Mark Porter
THE BMA doctors’ union and the RCN nurses’ union joined hands in denouncing the Tory government’s onslaught on the NHS yesterday, after the...
Massive doctors picket lines –answer the Cameron-Hunt threats
THE TUC must organise a national day of action in support of the junior doctors’ dispute and our NHS, the Public and Commercial Services...
ALL IN A DAY’S WORK – Working Lives & Trade Unions...
All in a Day’s Work Working Lives and Trade Unions in West London 1945-1995 Published by the Britain at Work Project £12.80 with p&p ALL in a Day’s...
‘We are fighting for the NHS! Everyone must come out and...
‘SUPPORT junior doctors! Save the NHS! Let’s stop this unfair, untested and unsafe contract from being imposed. This contract is bad for patient...
HUNGRY PUPILS = RETURN TO THE VICTORIAN ERA says ATL
‘HUNGRY pupils mean we risk returning to a Victorian era rife with inequality,’ a survey by teachers union ATL has found. Almost four in ten...
Junior doctors confident of victory!
A GOOD picket of junior doctors turned out at the Norfolk and Norwich hospital at 8am. They were in good spirits despite the wind...
RECRUITMENT CRISIS GRIPS GENERAL PRACTICE says BMA survey
ALMOST nine out of ten GP (general practitioner) practices struggle to find locum cover, as the doctor shortage worsens across England. A new BMA (British...
48hr junior doctors strike begins today
JUNIOR doctors will walk out on their fourth strike at 8am this morning and form picket lines outside every hospital in the country, as...
Charlie Chaplin Children’s Ward Must Not Close!
‘THE Charlie Chaplin Children’s Ward must not close!’ Jaswinder Pannu exclaimed yesterday morning. She spoke to News Line during the 50-strong mass picket of Ealing...
‘Open The Doors! Let The Refugees In!’
‘OPEN the doors, let them in!’ shouted trade unionists and youth and their families taking part in Saturday’s 8,000-strong Refugees Welcome, Anti-Racism national demonstration...
Junior doctors mass march through east London
THOUSANDS of junior doctors marched through the City of London from Whitechapel to St Paul’s on Thursday evening in a show of force and...
Junior doctors determined to beat the Tories!
TENS OF THOUSANDS of junior doctors struck yesterday and many told News Line just how determined they were to stop the imposed contracts and...
Ealing Hospital mass picket
‘STRIKE action is the only way forward. How can we drive our buses safely if there is no A&E at Ealing hospital?’ bus driver...
Job Stability Is The Key Issue In Toronto
JOB stability is the key issue in the negotiation stalemate between City of Toronto and inside workers, CUPE Local 79 President Tim Maguire says. Addressing...
Australian Government Forced To Back Down Over Baby Asha!
AUSTRALIAN unions have applauded the community #LetThemStay alliance that forced the Turnbull government to back down on Sunday from sending baby Asha and her...
Imposed junior doctors contract hits cancer patients
470 CANCER doctors have signed a joint statement warning Health Secretary Hunt that the new imposed junior doctors contract ‘will lead to worse outcomes...
Junior doctors’ strike escalates
‘WE ARE not striking for cash, we are not striking for our personal careers, we are striking for the long-term sustainability of the NHS...
‘Strike until we win!’ – Junior Doctors strike solid
THOUSANDS of junior doctors, NHS workers, trade unionists and supporters took to picket lines across the country yesterday, as the junior doctors took their...
All Out With Junior Doctors
‘WE NEED other unions who are being attacked by this government to take action,’ BMA junior doctors committee member Aislinn Macklin-Doherty told News...
Higher nurse-to-patient ratio decreases risk of death
A HIGHER nurse-to-patient ratio is linked to a reduced risk of inpatient death, finds a study of staffing levels in NHS hospitals, published in...
7,000 Junior Doctors march on Downing St
‘BY attacking the junior doctors they’ve poached the wrong bear, we really believe in the NHS and an attack on us is an attack...
Junior doctors march today
TODAY thousands of junior doctors, health workers, student nurses, march through central London demanding ‘Victory to the junior doctors!’ At 8am next Wednesday morning (February...
Mass picket of Ealing Hospital
‘EALING Hospital is the beating heart of the whole community, leave our hospital alone!’ local resident Prempal Dhaliwal said on the mass picket of...