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27 January 2021
Overwhelmed, underfunded, underpaid, and still fighting for safe PPE
On the front line we're seeing whole wards being wiped out with staff sickness. In my own trust, at the start of January, there was approximately 9% staff absence.
9 December 2020
Super-rich tax evasion costs 34 million nurses worldwide
£320 billion is lost annually to corporate tax abuse and private tax evasion, the equivalent of nearly 34 million nurses' salaries, according to the Tax Justice Network.
2 December 2020
NHS: Underfunded, understaffed, underpaid
Everyone on shift feels the Tories have been an unmitigated disaster in their handling of the pandemic, whatever they voted in the general election.
19 August 2020
NHS pay: unions must take fight to U-turn Tories
If the pandemic increased public appreciation of the NHS, the government has delivered a kick in the teeth
22 July 2020
Angry demonstrations have broken out all over Israel, composed of new young activists.
22 April 2020
Where's our PPE? Where's our testing? Where's our money?
"We want the equipment we need to be safe doing our jobs".
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
1 April 2020
NHS workers speak out: austerity has left us unprepared
"Only in the last couple of weeks things are actually happening"
29 January 2020
End health and wealth divide - Fight for our NHS
Take a ride on the 83 bus across Sheffield and it takes ten years off your life! That's how long life expectancy falls travelling just ten miles from the wealthier parts of the city to the poorest.
15 January 2020
Northern Ireland: Thousands of nurses continue to strike for better pay
Thousands of nurses and healthcare workers in Northern Ireland have been taking part in industrial action since November over pay parity and staffing
5 June 2019
7,000 GP vacancies are expected in the UK by 2024. Chronic underfunding is causing doctors to resign, without prospects of replacing them.
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.
13 February 2019
Workplace and union news in brief
Glasgow strike victory; Bradford bus victory; union action in Hackney; oil tanker strike; Irish nurses strike; home care doorstepping; Woolwich ferry walkout
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.
24 October 2018
It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us including pay cuts for nurses, a new job for Nick Clegg and racist policing in Britol.
6 June 2018
The official NHS England budget deficit is almost £1 billion - with some analysts putting the real figure closer to £4 billion. The ongoing NHS crisis shows no sign of slowing down. The Tories, Blairites and capitalist class want to see the NHS broken up and sold to privateers
7 March 2018
NHS: public health - not private profit
The Tories make dangerous claims like 'we're all living longer' and 'people are demanding more treatment'. Of course people want the most up-to-date and effective treatment, it's 2018.
31 January 2018
NHS: use the 3 February protests as a launch pad for a mass movement
Thousands will be marching and protesting in London and across the UK in response to the crisis that has escalated in hospitals over the winter.
31 January 2018
Heroic health workers and valiant community campaigns have already proven that when we fight, we can win. The ideas and work of the Socialist Party have been a key component in this struggle.
But it's not just about ideas. Socialist Party members have been on the front line of the fightback, turning ideas into action. Help us beat the Tory and Blairite NHS wreckers. Join the Socialists.
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