ShareTweet Campaigners fighting to save Swanage Hospital from proposed closure decended on The Mowlem Theatre in Swanage for a public meeting on Friday July 20th. An aproximate head-count gave numbers of just over 1000 people attempting to gain access to the Mowlem Theatre. Once capacity had been reached, over 500 people…
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ShareTweet The decision not to bailout South London Trust sets a significant precedent. BY GEORGE EATON For the first time since the NHS was founded, a hospital trust (South London) has effectively been declared bankrupt and placed in administration. But who’s to blame? Andrew Lansley has already moved to pre-empt a Labour attack by pointing the finger…
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ShareTweet An internal email sent by senior managers warns that ill-handling of benefit changes could have ‘profound results’ for vulnerable claimants Senior jobcentre executives have warned staff of the risk of benefit claimants attempting suicide as controversial changes to sickness benefits are being pushed through. The warning, contained in an internal email sent to…
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ShareTweet By Ben Quinn Poll of GPs for British Red cross warns that elderly people’s health being put at risk by a lack of social care support The health of elderly people is being put at risk by “dangerous and short-sighted” cuts in home-based care services, the British Red Cross has warned. The charity…
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ShareTweet By Shiv Malik Sandwell and West Birmingham hospitals trust to extend unpaid work experience scheme after successful pilot A hospital trust is planning to extend a scheme under which dozens of unpaid jobseekers help deliver patient care in its wards. After a pilot involving six unemployed people working unpaid for eight…
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ShareTweet By Bronwen Handyside Despite no mention of the Health & Social Care Bill in Tory or Lib Dem manifestos, in spite of mass opposition from workers from top to bottom of the health service as well as thousands of health campaigners, the Coalition government has forced it through. It is now law -…
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ShareTweet By Max Pemberton Real health choice under the NHS reform Bill doesn’t exist, and the so-called market is a mockery. On March 27 the NHS reform Bill – or to give it its official name, the Health and Social Care Bill – received Royal Assent and became law. With the ink…
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ShareTweet By John Lister Campaigners, unions and opposition political parties can challenge, delay, publicise and expose some of the worst policies of Lansley’s new NHS Act – if we are united argues John Lister. The passage of Andrew Lansley’s Health & Social Care Bill into law is a major threat to the future…
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ShareTweet Last November in Katowice (Poland), a European conference was held on the defence of public health and social care systems. It was decided to call a new conference which will be held on May 12-13 in Paris, to continue our analysis and establish joint mobilizations. Everywhere in Europe, the crisis of national debt…
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