Will you march with nurses this weekend?
Ness Woodcock-Dennis, is one of the main organisers for the NHS Workers Say No! protests taking place this Saturday 8 August. She is a Registered Nurse and nursing lecturer and explains here why it is […]
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Results of patient identity checking pilot suppressed
The Department of Health and Social Care has failed to provide the results of an identity checking pilot, that aimed to deny free NHS care to some patients.Campaigners’ Freedom of Information Act requests for results […]
Nurses march for better pay
Thousands of nurses and health and care workers protesters in Central London yesterday to protest the lack of a meaningful pay rise for nurses. While the Government had announced pay rises for a number of […]
The Tories have shown their true colours
Cat Hobbs is the Founder and Director of WeOwnIt, who are running a petition to protect the NHS from trade deals.Gone is the clapping for our carers. Gone are the platitudes about not wanting to […]
No worker is expendable
‘Exposed, silenced, attacked: failures to protect health and essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic’. This timely and shocking report compiled by Amnesty International opens with the stark figure of 3000 health workers losing their lives […]
Frontline nurses betrayed: No pay rise from Government
Today the government announced a pay rise for some public sector workers. It notably excludes nurses, one of the biggest health & social care workforces in the UK. Understandably, this has gone down like a […]
5 myths about Covid19 that could harm the NHS
Preventing the spread of Covid-19 among the public is crucial to stopping the NHS from being overwhelmed, and stopping the NHS from being overwhelmed is crucial to protecting the UK public. You can’t have one […]
NHS Trade Deals still on the table & MUST be resisted
Allowing businesses to buy up parts of the NHS through international trade deals would fragment a national institution that we depend on and mark the end of the NHS as we know it, writes Dr […]
Protect Jobs Save Lives: Stop relocation of acute services in South London
‘Improving Healthcare Together’ plans mean nothing more than cutbacks at Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, writes Helen O’Connor of the GMB Southern Region Health chiefs at Epsom and St Helier NHS hospitals are failing […]
Unfair car parking charges are unsafe and demoralising
This article was written by Iain Wilson, a nurse and member of our NHS Staff Voices group. There’s lots to be angry at the government for when you work in the NHS – their failure […]