16 September 2020

Coventry: scrap 'profit before people' hospital parking charges

The Coventry Socialist Party campaign to scrap hospital parking charges continues

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2 September 2020

Scrap hospital parking charges

When Coventry Socialist Party was campaigning to scrap hospital parking charges, NHS workers told us how much they had to pay - £40 a month to park at their own workplace, with no guarantee of a space

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5 August 2020

Sick pay victory at Homerton hospital!

Workers and unions at Homerton hospital, east London are celebrating a major victory: winning NHS sick pay for all staff working for private contractor ISS.

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15 July 2020

Hillingdon Hospital corona outbreak: workforce not to blame

Government and management attacks and incompetence are the main cause of the spread

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8 July 2020

Homerton hospital workers deserve equal pay and conditions

Management at Homerton Hospital in Hackney, east London, has outraged staff by insisting that outsourcing and inferior pay and conditions for ancillary workers will go on

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24 June 2020

Victory for Royal Glamorgan A&E!

A 24-hour A&E department is to be retained at Royal Glamorgan Hospital

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10 June 2020

Homerton Hospital - withdraw private contract

Homerton Hospital in north London has awarded its contract for cleaning, catering, portering and security back to private contractor ISS for another five years

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3 June 2020

Hospital closed following rampant spread of Covid-19

The decision by the main acute hospital in Western-super-Mare to stop admitting patients due to a dramatic spike in Covid-19 cases, clearly illustrates the dangers of easing lockdown.

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11 May 2020

Dispatches from the front: bosses prepare fresh attacks on NHS

As an NHS nurse I was asked by the Socialist to provide a note from the 'front line'

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29 April 2020

Adding demands to the weekly claps

Lots out clapping, taxis tooting their horns, bagpipes playing and a bit of chanting - "PPE for all frontline workers", "mass testing for all" and "save our NHS", writes Elaine Brunskill.

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29 April 2020

ISS workers' pay victory

Cleaning staff at Lewisham Hospital who have taken strike action over unpaid wages have won

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28 April 2020

Dispatches from the front: PPE chaos goes on

"I just found out that the 'FFP3' mask I've been wearing expired in 2012."

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20 April 2020

Covid-19 patient speaks out: fantastic support from under-resourced health workers

Steve Nally, a support worker in the housing sector, was among the first Covid-19 patients at St Thomas' Hospital in south London

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15 April 2020

Going viral: Socialist comments on the corona crisis

The Covid-19 pandemic is a world social crisis which touches every aspect of life. The iniquities and failings of the capitalist system are being exposed, and workers and communities are organising in

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14 April 2020

Dispatches from the front: NHS staff say give us PPE, not medals!

"The situation in London hospitals is dire, much worse than comes across in the news"

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14 April 2020

Johnson's hospitalisation: a tale of two treatments

Tory prime minister Boris Johnson was discharged from hospital on 12 April following treatment for Covid-19

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1 April 2020

NHS workers speak out: austerity has left us unprepared

"Only in the last couple of weeks things are actually happening"

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1 April 2020

PPE, Tests, Full pay - for all now

The situation will "get worse before it gets better," says Boris Johnson. But the enormity of this will not be the fault of the individual actions of ordinary working people.

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25 March 2020

We need tests for all now! Nationalise production and research

"Test, test, test" said the World Health Organisation.

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25 March 2020

Going viral: Socialist letters and comments on the coronavirus crisis

The Covid-19 pandemic is a world social crisis which touches every aspect of life. The iniquities and failings of the capitalist system are being exposed, and workers and communities are organising in response.

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