Unite has broadly welcomed a new review into health and social care leadership, but has warned that the government will fail to bring about any meaningful change if it doesn’t address more central…Read more…
NHS privatisation fight continues
The campaign against the relentless tide of NHS privatisation will continue, despite a judicial review dismissing the campaigners’ case that there was a lack of patient consultation when GP practices…Read more…
‘Catastrophic’ health and care bill must be axed
This week Unite, alongside Your NHS Needs You and Diem 25, has unveiled billboards, ad vans and bus stops across the so-called ‘red wall’ that will carry direct messages to voters in constituencies…Read more…
Unite leads fight against health and social care bill
Unite has joined with Your NHS Needs You to force a debate in parliament, after over 135,000 people signed a petition calling for the health service to be renationalised. It also demands that…Read more…
‘Landmark case’ in fight against NHS hiving-off
The takeover of GP practices in London by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation will be subject of a judicial review in early 2022 after more than £70,000 has been raised by the public to…Read more…
Two weeks to save the NHS
Celebrities and health workers will band together on November 22 to demand that members of parliament oppose the Health and Care Bill, which the government is trying to push through despite numerous…Read more…
Wrong prescription for the NHS
Labour must oppose Health and Care Bill
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Health and Care bill ‘Trojan horse’ for more NHS privatisation
The government has been accused using the pandemic as ‘a smokescreen’ to push through the Health and Care Bill that will open the floodgates for more NHS privatisation, Unite warned today (September…Read more…
London GP practices takeover challenged
The takeover of GP practices in London by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation could be the subject of a judicial review, Unite the union has said. Campaigners, including members of Doctors…Read more…
‘Biggest shake-up of pathology services in decades’
There needs to be a proper public consultation for a new mega centre to analyse blood samples from Lancashire and South Cumbria, as the proposal will mean longer waiting times for patients to get…Read more…
‘The continuing carousel of sleaze and cronyism allegations’
There usually comes a time in the life-time of a long-serving government when there is a light bulb moment which turns out to be terminal for its popularity and electoral prospects.
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‘Only the start’
Doctors in Unite (DiU) GPs and health campaigners were out in full force on Thursday (April 22) at a socially distanced demo protesting the takeover of London GP practices by an American healthcare…Read more…
NHS at real risk of sell off to ‘profit-hungry’ US firms
In just two days’ time Unite GPs will be making a stand. The protest is against GP practices being taken over by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation – branded as ‘the accelerating…Read more…
Lobbying rules ‘a shoddy farce’
There should be a rapid independent inquiry into the growing lobbying scandal that is engulfing the NHS, Unite said today (April 19) Unite said the need for the inquiry was made more urgent by…Read more…
‘Trojan Horse’ for more NHS privatisation?
The government’s plans to jettison the ‘reforms’ of the 2012 Health and Social Care Act, which apply to England-only, must not become a Trojan Horse that sees the private sector set for growth,…Read more…
Unite slams govt plans for private sector bio-med labs
Unite, which represents over 100,000 health care workers, has today (February 24) added its voice to warnings that the government’s plans to create a mega laboratory in Leamington Spa in…Read more…
‘Jobs for the boys and girls’?
The government has today (August 18) officially announced plans to axe Public Health England (PHE) and replace the body with a new agency, after the plans were leaked to the media at the weekend. PHE…Read more…
NHS up for sale
Confirming beyond doubt that a future Tory government under Boris Johnson would sell out the NHS under a US-UK trade deal, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn revealed an explosive dossier of un-redacted…Read more…
‘Human chain to save NHS’
A ‘human chain’ to save the NHS and a rally are key features of a two day strike by staff at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust who face being transferred to a wholly owned subsidiary (WOS) designed…Read more…
NHS privatisation by the “back door”
Unite delegate Suzanne Abachor addressed the TUC today (9 September) on the dangers of “backdoor” NHS privatisation through the setting up of wholly owned subsidiaries.
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