We Stand With them
The junior doctors, amidst a storm of crafted “spin” and ludicrous claims that the BMA has somehow been “hijacked” by a bunch of irresponsible Lefties, are taking strike action tomorrow (Tuesday 12 January). An historic and […]
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HCT Newspaper Pulls No Punches
Health Campaigns Together, the alliance of health campaign organisations formed to coordinate and promote the action to save the NHS, has published a free PDF newspaper listing the threats facing the NHS and calling for […]
NHS Bill: Take it to your union
A way of stopping the cuts and privatising of the NHS and the systematic wrecking of staff conditions is to get the NHS Bill made into law. But that won’t happen with a Tory majority […]
NHS THREAT: Addenbrookes: Don’t mistake the symptom for the disease
Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, is a damned good place to be if you are ill. It is a good hospital. Its reputation remains unsullied and world wide. Yet now the CQC, the government’s health quality “watch-dog” […]
NHS THREAT: NHS purse-holders cut and cut again
Nearly a third of clinical commissioning groups – the CCGs who hold NHS budgets – have implemented or are considering restrictions to services this year.
NHS THREAT: GPs’ College warns of ‘7-day working’ myth
More than one in 10 GP roles in England are vacant, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has revealed, making government plans for 7-day general practice ‘unrealistic’.
PRESS RELEASE – Why the 7-Day Week Breaks the NHS
Immediate release – 20 May 2015 The latest declaration by David Cameron to make the NHS ‘7-day working’ appears attractive but is superficial and deeply flawed. It threatens to wreck staff morale in promising to […]