The Prime Minister shrugged off the mounting NHS crisis yesterday (January 11) as a “small number” of incidents, even as 20 hospitals across England declared that they could no longer guarantee…Read more…
Government’s claim to have ‘protected’ the NHS is a sham, says UNISON
Commenting on remarks made today (Wednesday) to the Commons Public Accounts Committee by NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens, UNISON head of health Christina McAnea said: “It’s…Read more…
NHS ‘nearing meltdown’
A Sheffield man died after it took an ambulance more than two and a half hours to reach him, it was revealed on Monday (January 9). The tragedy is just one of a growing litany of examples that…Read more…
Crisis, what crisis?
When is a humanitarian crisis not a humanitarian crisis? Apparently when the health secretary and prime minister choose to reject the analysis of crisis care professionals. On Friday January…Read more…
The Great Western Hospital and the “beds crisis”
You didn’t need a premonition in 1999 (“We warned this would happen says pensioner over beds crisis at GWH”, Swindon Advertiser) to know that the new hospital would be short of beds. Swindon TUC helped set up an NHS Defence Campaign which cut through the propaganda of the Trust…Read more…
Seasonal cheer
Unite reps working at Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust branch threw a special Christmas party for poorly children at the Royal Oldham Hospital’s children’s department. And Father Christmas…Read more…
Last Christmas
Unite members are part of the backbone of society. Never more so than in the festive period when thousands will help maintain the essential gas, electricity, water, social care and health sectors. It…Read more…
UK’s health heroes revealed
An ambulance worker from Berwick and a day centre receptionist from Belfast are the first ever winners of the Our Health Heroes awards, set up to celebrate the work of the thousands of support staff…Read more…
Care for the NHS
Just days after chancellor Phillip Hammond hardly bothered to mention the NHS in his Autumn Statement, the Labour party launched a major campaign on Saturday (November 26) in support of the…Read more…
#CarefortheNHS – West Ham Labour campaign day for the NHS
Picture collage from yesterday. Members of West Ham Labour Party with our MP, Lyn Brown, in Stratford handing out leaflets and talking to the public about the funding crisis facing the NHS.
See photo of Newham Labour Mayoral Candidate (and stanch camp…Read more…
Paramedics’ skills and responsibilities recognised
Two years of joint union work with employers sees agreement on Agenda for Change Band 6 job profile for ambulance paramedics
The article Paramedics’ skills and responsibilities recognised…Read more…
‘Downright immoral’
During his first autumn statement Chancellor Phillip Hammond told MPs he would not be reading out a list of pet plans – except for one. “I have deliberately avoided turning this…Read more…
Trump and the Clinton Campaign (24 November): NHS Campaign Day (26 November): West Ham Xmas Quiz (9 December)
Dear West Ham Labour Member
NHS Campaign day – this Saturday
Labour is holding a National NHS Campaign Day this Saturday (26th). Here in West Ham we’ll be talking to voters at a steet staill and by knocking on doors in Stratford. We hop…Read more…
NHS and social care funding crisis completely missing from #AutumnStatement
“Departments will continue to deliver overall spending plans set at the Spending Review 2015” That was how the Chancellor used the Autumn Statement to respond to the crisis in our NHS and social care services. The NHS, deep in funding crisis, wasn’t mentioned once –…Read more…
Autumn Statement: The government is spreading the ‘jam’ far too thinly
Aside from those on the very lowest wages, the pay misery for school, hospital and town hall staff goes on. The government’s stubborn refusal to end the one per cent pay cap means wages are lagging…Read more…
We must care for the NHS as it has cared for so many of us
Long waits for both routine and essential NHS care are becoming increasingly common – whether someone is trying to see a GP or a specialist – and yet the Tory mantra remains the same. Like ostriches…Read more…
Cutbacks leaving LGBT people without specialist mental and sexual health support
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are facing long waits for appointments at gender identity clinics and being denied specialist mental health counselling because of cutbacks, says…Read more…
Cash not secret reforms call
Frontline staff and patients are being left out of secret plans to shrink NHS services and cut costs, a new report has warned. An investigation by the King’s Fund think tank shows that NHS…Read more…
The Chancellor should use £2.4bn in unallocated business rates to ease the social care funding crisis, says UNISON
The government could ease the social care crisis by handing councils back billions in surplus cash raised from business rates, says a report published today (Wednesday) by UNISON. The government…Read more…
‘Don’t trash our NHS’
Unite’s response on learning that Virgin Care has become the first private firm in the country to run adult social care after being handed a controversial £700m deal by Tory-led Bath and North…Read more…