With the NHS celebrating its 70th birthday, the debate continues to rage over the future funding and structure of the health service as NHS campaigners fight to contain the octopus-like tentacles of…Read more…
The NHS’ lost £billion?
Much was made by the government about the £2bn uplift it had given the NHS in for 2015/2016 for frontline services. But where did all that money go? Nearly £1bn – almost half – went into the…Read more…
All for just a fiver
NHS staff will see yet another year of falling income as the Pay Review Body (PRB) recommended yesterday (March 28) that health workers get only a 1 per cent pay rise next year – well below projected…Read more…
‘Come clean on STPs’
New figures uncovered today (March 21) by the Press Association (PA) have sparked outrage, as it was revealed that controversial sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) to reorganise the NHS…Read more…
The health visitor vanishes?
After the government launched a concerted drive to recruit more health visitors – whose numbers had over the years become dangerously low – a disaster was averted, as targets set in 2011 to train…Read more…
NHS cuts: turn down ‘the noise’
Expensive ‘guerrilla marketing’ tactics are to be used to persuade people in Yorkshire, Humber and north Lincolnshire that ‘the noise’ about NHS cuts needs to be ‘turned down’. Marketing and…Read more…
Get on board — save our NHS
Unite Community West London members will get aboard the ‘Save Our NHS’ open top bus on Saturday (February 11) as part of their campaign to expose the threat posed by the government’s secretive NHS…Read more…
Secretive NHS shake-up
The cash-strapped NHS could be spending up to £15m on management consultants for advice on the secretive shake-up of the health service in England. Unite, with 100,000 members in the health…Read more…
‘On the edge of collapse’
GPs, already facing unconscionable workloads working for an underfunded and understaffed NHS, were threatened by prime minister Theresa May at the weekend (January 14) with even more cuts to their…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…