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7 September 2011
On 2 September Chris Bryant (Labour MP for Rhondda) was in Tonypandy. When I saw him I thought it was a perfect opportunity to confront him about the brutal cuts in the NHS, especially in mental health...
photo Paul Mattsson
3 August 2011
NHS cuts from a nurse's viewpoint
Cameron's government claims to be 'defending the NHS.' He claims the health care budget is 'ring fenced', writes an NHS mental health nurse.
March to save the NHS 17 May 2011, photo Paul Mattsson
18 May 2011
David Cameron has made clearer than ever what side he's on regarding the NHS. "It is because I love the NHS so much that I want to change it," he said. This speech spelt out that only very minor compromises,...
13 April 2011
Hands off our Services - Leeds
Leeds: Local mental health service users and mental health workers lobbied Labour-controlled Leeds city council against its plans to close mental health day centres across the city without serious consultation with workers and service users, writes Dave Younger, Leeds City Socialist Party .
9 April 2011
Fight continues to save Leeds day centres
Local mental health service users and mental health workers came together with representatives from Leeds Trades Council, Leeds Against the Cuts and two major public sector unions to lobby Leeds City Council in opposition to its plans to close mental health day centres across the city
Social care workers on strike in Scotland, photo Duncan Brown
9 March 2011
Casualties of cuts - and a rotten system
BANKERS AND speculators have been bailed instead of jailed. But for our class, the cruel casualties of this rotten system have been mounting for a decade, writes Wally Kennedy, Secretary, Hillingdon Against Cuts.
26 January 2011
Stop the mental health service cuts
The funding of Mental Health Action Group Sheffield (MHAGS) is in jeopardy. We get our core grant from Sheffield city council, which plans to reduce the service down to one day a week...
1 September 2010
Keep Middle Street centre open
MENTAL HEALTH service users in Nottingham are involved in an inspiring campaign to keep Middle Street Resource centre in Beeston open, writes Pete Watson, Nottinghamshire Unison.
18 August 2010
Cuts devastate mental health services
Community mental health care bosses in Southwark, south London, aim to save £3.7 million in two years, a mental health worker writes.
4 August 2010
Cuts news: Mental health services facing the axe
The NHS constitution tells us that care should be available to all based on clinical need. But watching the budget is now the primary concern. Patient care will be sacrificed. NHS services, particularly...
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