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11 September 2019
Frimley hospital staff fight back-door privatisation
There was a noisy and enthusiastic demonstration outside Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey on 22 August against outsourcing NHS staff to a 'wholly owned subsidiary'. Good to see NHS staff in uniform joining the protest.
28 August 2019
Bangladeshi campaigners fight mining giant for justice
Shouts of "GCM, shame on you, Gary Lye [Chief Officer], shame on you" rang out around the square outside the London Stock Exchange on 22 August.
28 August 2019
Lincolnshire health visitors' solidarity rally
As reported in the last issue of the Socialist, Lincolnshire health visitors are planning further strike action after a failure to increase pay in line with other health visitors equates to a loss of about £2,000 a year.
28 August 2019
Barry Hospital workers fight to save ward from closure
Unison health union members at Barry Hospital have launched a campaign to save the Sam Davies ward from closure.
28 August 2019
Strike action wins privatisation reprieve at Bradford hospitals
After three weeks of strike action by estates and facilities workers in Bradford hospitals organised in health union Unison - and with an all-out strike looming - management has blinked first.
14 August 2019
Health workers strike against £2,000 loss of pay
Health visitors in Lincolnshire have been on strike against the Tory county council.
14 August 2019
Leeds estate residents push back private development
Leeds Socialist Party members have been campaigning alongside the Little London Tenants and Residents Association (TRA) against a 'mega-block' proposed for this community on the outskirts of Leeds city centre.
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
Bradford: All-out action to defeat backdoor NHS privatisation
The escalation of the strike at Bradford Teaching Hospitals Trust to all-out strike action at the end of August marks a significant intensification by Unison union members in estates and facilities at the trust.
14 August 2019
Tory bribes don't hide destruction of NHS
In 2010 every Tory candidate in our county, Gloucestershire, received a donation from a hedge fund manager with interests in private healthcare, yet at the same time there was a Cameron-led election campaign pledging full support to the NHS.
17 July 2019
Residents mobilise to stop eviction
Irene is a pensioner living in a small terraced house in Liverpool's Kensington area, where she has lived for years.
17 July 2019
Campaigners force U-turn over NHS privatisation
Working-class people in Halton are celebrating after NHS bosses were forced to abandon plans to hand the local urgent care contract to a private company. This followed a rapid and determined response by campaigners including local Socialist Party members.
17 July 2019
Bradford NHS workers strike against privatisation
Seven unbroken days of strike action by estates and facilities staff at Bradford hospitals have blown the lid off the simmering pot of workers' struggle in the NHS.
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.
17 July 2019
Wales: chronic NHS underfunding exposed
The terrible conditions faced by patients and staff at the A&E at the University Hospital of Wales, the biggest in Wales, have been exposed
9 July 2019
Bradford: Unison members strike to stay 100% NHS
Around 300 Unison members at Bradford Royal Infirmary are on strike for a week against the transfer of estates and facilities staff to a 'wholly-owned' subsidiary
9 July 2019
Residents, housing activists and pensioners mobilise to stop eviction
Irene has lived in Liverpool's Kensington area for years
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
Midlands mental health workers walk out against privatisation
"If this goes through, things will never be the same again. It's the beginning of the end," said one Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust picket
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