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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
9 May 2012
Care home closures in Sheffield
Sheffield City Council is planning to close all of the remaining elderly care homes in the city that are still council owned after years of privatisation of social care, writes Wyllie Hume, Sheffield Socialist Party.
30 November 2011
The Con-Dems don't: Two recent reports highlight the plight of the elderly in England and Wales. Firstly, the Office for National Statistics reported 25,700 deaths due to cold weather in 2010/11
Southern Cross Healthcare's private residential home care in crisis, photo B Severn
2 June 2011
Southern Cross - Social care on the brink
Southern Cross Healthcare is on the brink of collapse. This company provides residential care to 31,000 people and has 44,000 employees
25 May 2011
Care homes privatisation hits the elderly
31,000 people living in care homes face uncertainty over their future, writes John Sharpe.
18 May 2011
An example of the utter inability of capitalism to answer the basic needs of society, and its young people particularly, was provided to me by my own family recently, an east London Socialist Party member writes.
21 April 2010
National Care Service - fact or fiction?
MOST RESEARCH suggests that the general population is living longer. Advances in science and healthcare mean that more conditions are treatable and many people with previously life-threatening conditions...
17 February 2010
Notts Tories attack the vulnerable
Kay Cutts, the aptly named Tory leader of Nottinghamshire County Council, said when elected last June that she would run a "business administration", writes Jon Dale.
27 May 2009
SCORES OF angry elderly protesters spoiled the ceremony of exchanging mayors at the town hall of Barnet in north London, writes Ron Cohen.
23 January 2008
Post office campaign: Changes in the law to break the poor
Life will be made much harder for many elderly and disabled people with the planned closures of around 2,500 post offices across the country this year... By Jon Dale
22 November 2006
Bury: A HUNDRED people marched through Bury, Greater Manchester, on 18 November to protest at the closure of Ward 30 at Fairfield General Hospital....
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