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13 March 2019
Workplace news in brief including strikes in on the Woolwich ferry, at Liverpool Women's Hospital and in Hackney.
13 March 2019
Anger after violent youth deaths - Communities need public services not cuts
So far this year, ten teenagers have already lost their lives in London as a result of knife crime. In response to these tragedies, people are rightly demanding action to keep communities safe.
9 March 2019
Outsourced workers at Liverpool Women's Hospital were on strike on 25 February because they're paid less by their private company OCS than staff working directly for the NHS
6 March 2019
A&E 4-hour waiting targets scrapped - Save our NHS!
NHS England is backing a plan to scrap four-hour A&E waiting time targets 'within a year'.
27 February 2019
Non-fiction: 'Unhealthy Profits: PFI in the NHS'
This is a useful book for any trade unionist fighting the consequences of their own local PFI scheme
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.
20 February 2019
Local NHS bosses plan to reorganise acute hospital services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR), costing around £370 million
13 February 2019
'Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor': comedy and tragedy judiciously mixed
Non-fiction: 'This is Going to Hurt': Adam Kay defends the NHS against the privatisers and he does it in a witty and engaging way
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".
23 January 2019
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist's editors. Disability benefits nightmare; disappearing hospitals
23 January 2019
Nationalise big pharma: end this profit-driven NHS crisis
NHS faces drug price hikes: Instead of subsidising their profits with tax breaks, they should be nationalised under democratic workers' control and management
16 January 2019
It's one world for the super-rich, and another for the rest of us. Cancer waiting times; outsourcing explosion; tube pollution; Universal Credit
9 January 2019
NHS funding crisis: Tory 'super-plan' is a super-con!
Theresa May has been trumpeting an increase in spending on the NHS and a ten-year 'super-plan' for NHS England. But this is not what it seems.
9 January 2019
Tremendous effort sees Socialist Party smash fighting fund target in 2018
Socialist Party members and supporters raised £44,171 in the final three months of 2018 - 147% of the target of £30,000! Because of this huge effort we also surpassed the annual fighting fund target, raising £130,632 altogether.
12 December 2018
Cuts and NHS crisis result in 'excess' elderly deaths
The latest figures from the Office of National Statistics reveal that there were 50,100 'excess deaths' in England and Wales in the winter of 2017-18, the highest number since the mid-1970s.
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
Fighting NHS and fire services cuts and closures in Merseyside
Five walk-in centres across Wirral are set to be closed, with another four under threat in Liverpool.
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
28 November 2018
King George A&E faces closure again
King George Hospital A&E remains under threat. That's the warning from a march and rally on 26 November.
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