Health
06 January 2007
On Saturday 3 March thousands of people will protest against the health cuts that are causing increasingly bitter demonstrations against government policy.
16 December 2006
Hillingdon Hospital's Accident & Emergency department is being privatised without the knowledge of local people.
16 December 2006
Everyone must add their voice to the clamour for a national protest to defend the NHS. Trade unions have been forced to raise the possibility of a demonstration and want to know how many people would come.
16 December 2006
New Labour’s smears
Campaign group Health Emergency has challenged the government to identify a single one of the 29 major acute hospitals facing early closure or downgrading where the axing of key services isn’t being driven by a major deficit in the local NHS budget.
09 December 2006
Health campaigners from across the country will gather in central London on Saturday 20 January for a national conference of the Keep Our NHS Public campaign.
09 December 2006
Unison gives its blessing for national demonstration
The Unison union’s health group executive last week voted to approach the NHS Together union coalition with a view to building a national demonstration with community groups on a Saturday at the end of March.
09 December 2006
Walk into any high street chain bookstore these days and before very long you are likely to encounter a stand packed with books devoted solely to the subject of happiness.
02 December 2006
Workers in the NHS Blood Service may strike over Christmas in their fight against the closure of 14 blood centres.
25 November 2006
This Saturday another thousands strong demonstration is set to take place in Surrey to fight against local health cuts.
11 November 2006
More than 800 people attended two public meetings last week to launch a campaign to defend Whipps Cross Hospital in North East London. The hospital is facing £44 million cuts in the next two years. This has already led to ward and operating theatre closures, the loss of 107 beds and 276 redundancies.
04 November 2006
Thousands of health workers descended on parliament on Wednesday of this week for a lobby of MPs.
04 November 2006
NHS staff job cuts that will run into more than 20,000 have been announced since February as the NHS struggles to balance the books
04 November 2006
While public services are cut, City bankers are setting even higher records for their bonuses.
04 November 2006
Campaign group Health Emergency revealed that 21,000 jobs have been lost since February this year, as NHS trusts struggle to claw back financial deficits.
04 November 2006
Peterborough and Stamford hospital trust
Maintenance workers in Amicus at Peterborough and Stamford hospital trust are being balloted for industrial action over pay.
28 October 2006
Over 150 mental health staff in Manchester have voted unanimously to ballot for strike action if a package of cuts is not dropped.
28 October 2006
Health unions have angrily accused chancellor Gordon Brown of intervening in NHS pay talks to force through an effective salary cut.
21 October 2006
Around 100 trade unionists from the Unison, Amicus, PCS, UCU, NUT, T&G and GMB unions demonstrated outside the meeting room of Newcastle Trusts headquarters on Wednesday of last week. They were protesting at the summary suspension of NHS activist Yunus Bakhsh.
21 October 2006
Last weekend saw another round of demonstrations against NHS cuts, which have provoked protests across the country.
14 October 2006
Around 1,000 people attended a rally and march through Huntingdon last Saturday to protest against attempts to impose drastic cuts on the local hospital. The government’s free market policies have left Huntingdon’s Hinchingbrooke hospital with debts of over £24 million.