1 December 2021

Behind the rural idyll - the problems of everyday life

Few would argue that Devon is a slice of heaven. A haven for tourists and retirees who flock here to enjoy the exquisite landscape. But popularity comes at a cost:

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3 November 2021

Tory plans won't fix social care

As huge numbers of exhausted staff quit the social care sector, "a tsunami of unmet need" is faced this winter

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13 October 2021

Social care funding needed now

The news media are keen to talk about shortages of petrol, HGV drivers, fruit pickers, etc, but they are not talking about the social care crisis caused by the shortage of carers.

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6 October 2021

Solidarity Appeal: Support the Berlin hospital strike

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8 September 2021

Whipps Cross hospital workers reject the 3%

80 plus Whipps Cross hospital workers, Unite members and Socialist Party members came out in protest against the humiliating 3% offered pay rise for all NHS workers on 25 August

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25 August 2021

UK hospitals in danger of collapse

The NHS is crumbling from decades of underinvestment. Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, has its ceilings propped up with almost 200 steel props. Hinchingbrooke Hospital has set a weight

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11 August 2021

NHS: Kick out the privatisers, Fight for funding, Build for strike action

Profit vultures descend on the NHS backlog: A recent report of new deals between the NHS and private hospitals and private healthcare groups comes as no surprise

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7 July 2021

Royal London Hospital strike win

Strike action was suspended after Serco capitulated to most of the catering workers' demands.

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7 July 2021

Israel: Hospital ancillary workers strike over pay parity and workload

Ancillary staff at government hospitals in Israel are taking strike action, starting on 13 July, after three years of negotiations with the ministry of finance.

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30 June 2021

Israel: Hospital ancillary workers strike over pay parity and workload

Ancillary staff at government hospitals in Israel are taking strike action after three years of negotiations with the ministry of finance

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30 June 2021

Royal London Hospital

Striking workers at the Royal London Hospital are showing the way forward for the NHS unions.

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23 June 2021

Interview with newly elected Unison NEC member

Hospital worker Naomi Byron speaks (pc) to the Socialist following her election

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23 June 2021

NHS in crisis - 'It's time for action'

Join protests on 3 July. 15% pay rise now

Tories' derisory 1% pay offer to NHS staff is only the latest in a long list of injuries that healthcare staff have had to endure

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23 June 2021

Outsourced London hospital workers fight for better pay

Catering workers have walked out for five days at the Royal London Hospital, part of Barts NHS Trust in east London

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16 June 2021

Queues at Socialist Party stall in Cov

The Socialist Party is out campaigning against parking charges at University Hospital Coventry, while promoting the NHS protest on 3 July. We have had a fantastic response from the community.

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16 June 2021

Now is the time to fight for the NHS

I first became aware of a problem with our healthcare provision, and the appalling treatment of our NHS workforce, when our 120 year-old hospital was suddenly closed here in Dartmouth in 2017

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16 June 2021

Save Leicester General Hospital

Leicestershire NHS bosses have made the decision to close Leicester General Hospital, one of the three main acute hospitals in Leicester, selling off most of the land, and also St Mary's Maternity unit in Melton Mowbray

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31 March 2021

Cumberland hospital workers fight for stolen pay

Cleaners, caterers, porters and switchboard staff at the Cumberland Infirmary are fighting for a decade of unsocial hours' payments that have been stolen from them.

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17 February 2021

Online workers' rally: Taking fight to the bosses

The National Shop Stewards Network held its 5th meeting during the pandemic

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27 January 2021

Low-paid hospital workers strike

Two disputes by low-paid hospital workers in Birmingham and Reading are taking place. Heartlands hospital workers in Birmingham work directly for the NHS, and those at the Royal Berkshire are contracted

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