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12 March 2008
 Derby nurses fight PFI pay cuts
Health workers rallied outside both the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary (DRI) and the Derby City Hospital (DCH) on 7 March in protest against the threatened cuts in nurses' pay, writes Staff nurse and Unison member, Derbyshire Royal Infirmary.
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30 January 2008
NHS in crisis
 | On the 3 November Save the NHS march, photo Paul Mattsson |
Plans 'unfit for purpose'?:
'FIT FOR the future,' the government's plan for NHS services in North-east London, would be better entitled 'Unfit for purpose'! It will mean downsizing King George Hospital and possibly Whipps Cross Hospital, closing their Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments and moving them to a 'super-hospital' many miles away - the PFI-built Queens Hospital in Romford.
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17 January 2008
Derby nurses fight management attacks
More than 100 Unison members and their families packed a meeting to protest at threatened pay cuts to Derby nurses... By Graham Lewis, Long Eaton trades council
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27 September 2007
Swansea NHS trust - balancing books at patients' expense
SWANSEA NHS trust's announcement that they intend axing 750 nursing and health care hospital posts and 86 beds over the next three years has angered nurses and hospital staff...
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13 September 2007
Nurses strike
 | A protest in Leeds against Health cuts |
TWO HUNDRED health-workers and supporters rallied on 9 September against Manchester Community and Mental Health Trust management... By Hugh Caffrey, Manchester
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9 August 2007
Save our NHS: Stop fat cat robbery
 | Health workers demonstrate in Hackney, photo Paul Mattsson |
Save our NHS: Thousands of nurses and doctors are unable to find jobs in our health service after millions of pounds have been spent on training them.
Jon Smith, GMB branch secretary, Sheffield Children's Hospital, writes (in a personal capacity)
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14 June 2007
Fresh wave of protest in NHS
 | NHS demonstration March 3rd 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
"POLITICAL MEDDLING has brought the NHS to its knees... give us back the health service and we will rebuild it," said Jonathan Fielden of the British...
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24 May 2007
Nursing staff strike shows way forward
OPERATING THEATRE nurses at Barnsley Hospital staged a 24-hour strike on 21 May over threats to their jobs and a real wage cut...
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19 April 2007
Nurses' fury at cuts and attacks on jobs
NHS in crisis: NURSES AND other workers in the National Health Service are angry at cuts in the NHS...
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8 March 2007
Brown's pay cut insult
Trade union action for decent pay and public services
"THIS IS the last straw - 1.9% is the final insult" a health visitor angrily told me last Friday.
On top of job losses, increased workloads, pension cuts and privatisation, public-sector workers were kicked in the teeth last week by New Labour's announcement of an effective pay cut. Photo: Unison and RCN lobby of parliament in 2006, Paul Mattsson | |
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