Young student nurse Tracey Lambert giving out the orders on the nurses picket line at RSCH September 1982Read more…
Kingston Hospital
Prominent Kingston Councillor, COHSE and NHS activists Julie Reay (second left)Read more…
Surrey Nurse – Guildford 1982
Surrey Nurse Jeanette Roe and COHSE Branch Secretary (later full time officer)Read more…
COHSE Norther Region
Ex Guy’s Hospital NHS worker Gill Hale, later prominent leader of COHSE and UNISON as Regional Secretary in Northern RegionRead more…
The College and The Winter of Discontent 1979
A Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Council members response to nurses and NHS staff demanding a pay rise in 1979 “Winter of Discontent”Read more…
Nora Pearce – COHSE Kingston
Nora Pearce the now famous nurse and midwife from Kingston HospitalRead more…
COHSE David Williams With Nye Bevan
A young recently appointed COHSE officer.
David Williams, Denbigh (North Wales) Nurse and future COHSE General Secretary.
Here (centre) with the great Nye Bevan at COHSE conference 1953 and still campaigning for the NHS in 2016Read more…
COHSE at Tolpuddle
COHSE AIDS Guidelines May 1985
COHSE led the way amongst British trade unions in trying to dispel myths and anti gay paranoia around HiV/Aids.
COHSE guidelines were published in May 1985 when nurses with HiV were being sacked simply for having HiV and staff wer…Read more…
COHSE Nether Edge (Sheffield) Branch Banner
COHSE Nether Edge Hospital (Sheffield) banner on Nottingham NHS Demo July 1987Read more…
Claybury Hospital COHSE Banner
UNISON Nurses Against Racism
COHSE – 22nd January 1979
Student Nurses Lobby Parliament – 4th May 2016
Nursing Students – People’s Assembly March Saturday 16th April 2016
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Nurses Solidarity – South Wales Steel Workers
Nurses show solidarity with South Wales Steel WorkersRead more…
Nurses Day – Thora Silverthorne
UNISON “there for you” grants for School Uniforms
UNISON’s special charity for its own members “there for you” is helping low paid families to meet the cost of providing school uniforms. If your net earned (work) income is less than £18,000 per year (see below) and you have savings of less than £800 then you can get £40 per child uniform grants…Read more…
Prison reform will fail unless safety and staff retention addressed, says Justice Committee
An action plan is “urgently needed to reverse…[the]…rapid deterioration” in prison safety, concludes a new report by the House of Commons Justice Committee. Published just prior to the government’s Queen’s Speech announcement of a major overhaul of prison services, the report issues a serious…Read more…
Bus stop
Tomorrow (Tuesday May 24) hundreds of Unite bus driver members, working for First Manchester Ltd will stage a one day strike over a series of serious breaches of longstanding industrial agreements….Read more…