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Socialist Party members on NHS demonstration in 2006, photo Paul Mattsson
19 January 2011
Government health bill spells disaster for patients and workers: THE GOVERNMENT is planning a massive assault on the NHS in England in its latest health bill. This is on top of billions of pounds of 'efficiency savings' ie cuts, in the NHS budget, a London health workers explains...
5 January 2011
NHS cutbacks - health bosses and government to blame
A 'FINAL consultation' meeting of the inner and outer north east London primary care trusts on 15 December decided to close the Accident and Emergency department at the King George hospital in Goodmayes, east London, writes Simon Carter, east London Socialist Party.
NHS cleaners employed by Compass Medirest on a 48 hour strike in Southampton and Buckinghamshire, photo Southampton Socialist Party
15 December 2010
Hospital cleaners in Southampton take strike action
"What do we want? Back pay! When do we want it, now!" chanted cleaners as they marched around Southampton General hospital on the morning of 15 December...
15 December 2010
After four years of waiting for nationally agreed terms and conditions to be paid by Bucks Healthcare and the Medirest/Compass group, Medirest workers at Amersham and Wycombe Hospitals have had enough and voted to take strike action...
8 December 2010
Campaign stops health bosses' closure plan
THIRTY PEOPLE, including midwives, parents, children and Socialist Party members, lobbied a North West NHS board meeting that was expected to rubber-stamp the already deferred decision to close Salford Royal Hospital's maternity services, writes Paul Gerrard.
1 December 2010
NHS walk-in centre saved, but campaign continues
On 13 November 30 people demonstrated their opposition to NHS plans to close Bitterne Walk-In Centre (BWC), writes David Rawlinson, Southampton Socialist Party.
1 December 2010
Bucks hospitals strike: Workers employed by Medirest in the Wycombe and Amersham hospitals have voted by 90% to strike in a row over pay...
1 December 2010
Breeding ignoramus: DID THE newly appointed Tory peer, Howard Flight, confuse EU farm subsidies with child benefit when he said such payments will encourage "breeding"...
1 December 2010
Our health - A market for big business
YOUR HEALTH care is being privatised. Your body's ailments may worry you but to someone else they will be soon be a commodity to be bartered for, bought and sold on the free market, writes By an NHS healthworker.
3 November 2010
Sky's the limit: IT SEEMS that the belt tightening measures imposed on us by the coalition government hasn't penetrated the boardrooms of the top 100 FTSE companies, where directors' pay rocketed up by 55% in the last year...
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