Unite and other health unions celebrated a victory against NHS privatisation at the weekend after a Bristol Trust said it would scrap plans to transfer about 850 non-medical staff to a private…Read more…
Demonstrators tell government to properly fund the NHS
Thousands march in London, with other local demonstrations taking place around the country to highlight the crisis in the health service
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NHS privatisation is ‘killing people’
Hundreds of thousands of NHS campaigners will converge in London on Saturday (February 3) to demand the Tories fix the embattled health service. In response to the unprecedented and growing…Read more…
‘We break…we burnout’
My name is Debbie Wilkinson and I have been an NHS paramedic in Leeds for 27 years. I once worked out that means I have attended 999 calls at over 35,000 addresses! It’s a job I love and am…Read more…
Cash boost for NHS plea
Nearly 2,000 campaigners including health staff, patients, trade union activists and others joined the Labour party last night (January 25) at a rally demanding a significant cash boost for the…Read more…
The government must turn back the tide on NHS nursing shortages, says UNISON
The House of Commons Health Committee publishes a report on the nursing workforce
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The NHS staff on the inside of the crisis.
A really powerful video from the Labour Party on the true crisis in the NHS. Please watch, weep and share.Read more…
Christmas deaths in Eastern England reveal true extent of winter crisis
Twenty grieving families will now, quite rightly, be demanding answers
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The NHS crisis in five charts
Unless you’ve been truly hibernating so far this year, you will have heard that thousands of NHS operations have been cancelled. But what is the NHS winter crisis?
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‘Carillion-style Pandora’s Box’?
The NHS faces a ‘Pandora’s Box of Carillion-type meltdowns’, if trusts continue to set up subsidiaries to avoid paying tax, Unite warned today (January 16). Unite has written to the health and…Read more…
Pushed to breaking point
Unite has joined forces with other health unions to appeal to Jeremy Hunt to provide emergency NHS funding. In an unprecedented move, the leaders of 12 trade unions sent a joint letter urging…Read more…
Carillion’s collapse is terrible for staff and the taxpayer, says UNISON
The government needs to safeguard services and protect staff
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Flu jab is important but not the real threat to the NHS, says UNISON
Shortage of staff and lack of funding is the real threat to the NHS
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The letters from NHS doctors and NHS Providers should be a wake-up call for the government
The NHS is under unsustainable pressure and the government needs to take action
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‘Not just a winter crisis’
In a symbolic victory, a Labour motion was passed yesterday (January 10) demanding that the government provide extra funding to tackle the winter crisis now engulfing the NHS. The Opposition…Read more…
Don’t blame the flu
Politicians are over-egging the Australian flu outbreak to mask the underfunding destroying the NHS, a leading virologist has said. Fears have been expressed that the flu epidemic which swept…Read more…
Winter crisis
Both prime minister Theresa May and health secretary Jeremy Hunt apologised this week after announcing that all non-urgent operations – more than 50,000 – would be cancelled till the end of the month…Read more…
NHS cash boost call
The continual failure of ministers to address the proper funding of the NHS is plunging the health service into a deep crisis – in the year that the NHS celebrates its 70th anniversary. …Read more…
Caring at Christmas
In the final instalment of our working at Christmas stories we meet Mark, an emergency nurse at a central London hospital. He works on a short stay ward which is part of an accident and…Read more…
‘A duty to our patients’
In Part 4 of our series on working over Christmas, we speak to Dr Wasim Baqir, a pharmacist. Wasim works as a national lead in pharmacy for NHS care homes but he also works on the wards at a…Read more…