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14 August 2019
In 'Young, British and Depressed' ('Dispatches' on Channel 4, 29 July), Sanah Ahsan focussed on the crisis facing young people in their search to be treated for mental health problems.
14 August 2019
Lincolnshire health workers strike against £2,000 loss of pay
Health visitors - nurses and midwives who visit homes - in Lincolnshire have been on strike for 14 days against the Tory county council.
17 July 2019
Health visitors strike for the first time ever
Health visitors in Lincolnshire believe theirs is the first health visitors' strike anywhere in the country. The 58 specialist nurses, members of Unite the Union, voted for action by an 84% majority.
3 July 2019
Irish health workers' anger boils over into strike action
On 24 June over 10,000 workers in the Irish health service took strike action, ignoring Taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar's last minute plea to call it off. This was the first day in a campaign of escalating strike action.
3 July 2019
Even social-care bosses say cuts have gone too far
Jeremy Hunt, in a masterful understatement, said: "I think, having been responsible for health and social care, that some of the cuts in social care did go too far."
26 June 2019
Charging scandal in Warrington and Halton NHS Trust
The trust recently announced that 71 elective treatments would no longer be available free to patients
19 June 2019
Welsh government must block NHS privatisation or face workers' action
Two Welsh health boards have announced plans to privatise their hospital pharmacies, writes Beth Webster, nurse.
19 June 2019
Move along: In a blow to the supposed benefits of privatisation, research by the Office for National Statistics shows that public sector workers are more likely to stay in their jobs
15 May 2019
Workload-related mistakes by GPs on the rise - health unions need to fight back
After nearly a decade of Tory austerity and attacks on the NHS, it comes as no surprise that a Panorama investigation found that GPs are making mistakes due to workload. A majority of GPs admit seeing considerably more patients in a day than is considered safe.
15 May 2019
Privatisers sue NHS - kick out the fat cats and fully nationalise our health service!
A private company is taking the NHS to court, because its contract to run Nottingham University Hospital's outpatient-treatment centre was not renewed.
1 May 2019
300 NHS nurse suicides in seven years - fully fund our health service now!
The NHS crisis has reached horrifying new levels. Over 300 NHS nurses have died by suicide in seven years. In 2014, one nurse a week took their own lives.
3 April 2019
Toxic Grenfell fire residue threatens survivors
Cancer-causing chemicals and other potentially harmful toxins have been found close to Grenfell Tower in fire debris and soil samples, according to the University of Central Lancashire.
3 April 2019
NHS marches in Yorkshire and London
Campaigners and trade unionists came together to march through Leeds city centre and say that, despite the government's chronic paralysis over Brexit, the Tory plans to destroy our health service are still ongoing.
27 March 2019
NHS staff shortage now permanent: reverse health cuts!
For a fully funded, socialist NHS, run democratically by workers and service users!
20 March 2019
Theatre: Banner Theatre's Nottingham 'Free for All'
An inspiring evening of music, video footage and commentary was sponsored and hosted by Unite Nottinghamshire Health Branch at the Nottingham Arts Theatre 28 February.
20 February 2019
NHS crisis deepens: Workers' and community action can save our health service
The news that A&E waiting times have hit the worst level since records began is yet further proof of the ongoing crisis in our NHS.
6 February 2019
Historic strike of nurses in Ireland
Nearly 40,000 nurses and other health workers in Ireland started a 24-hour strike on 30 January to demand a pay rise. Their union, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, has more strike days planned in February.
6 February 2019
Cash-starved health service ripped off by big pharma - fund our NHS now!
The NHS has been priced out of buying a life-saving drug by pharmaceutical company Vertex. The cystic fibrosis drug, which can extend the life of children, costs £105,000 a year - a price which the NHS says is "unaffordable".
12 December 2018
Tories' NHS cash insult - mass action can save our NHS
£20.5 billion extra funding isn't enough to make improvements to NHS services, is the conclusion of Simon Stevens, head of NHS England. A row has broken out between him and the government.
5 December 2018
Health bosses move goalposts on A&E waiting times: more funds for our NHS now!
It is with much anger and disbelief that I read the latest incredulous ideas from NHS England. NHS bosses plan to change their long-promised target of all A&E patients being seen within four hours of arrival
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