Mental health care saves lives. We must fight the Tories’ £500m-a-year cut to services
I’m transgender and a survivor of suicide. I know how important mental health care is. We can’t let the Tories get away with underfunding it, writes Sophie Cook.
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Jeremy Hunt will ‘bring the gig economy into the NHS’ with new health worker app
The health secretary just announced a new NHS app to help staff ‘do extra hours at short notice’.
The Labour leadership are wrong. Renationalisation can happen whilst remaining in the EU
Labour’s promise to take back control of key public services should be welcomed — but it’s false to claim that this cannot be done whilst in the EU or single market, writes Green MEP Molly Scott Cato.
If Labour wants to end PFI, the deals need to be carefully unpicked. Here’s how to do it
In some cases the cost of PFI borrowing has been more than four times the cost of government borrowing.
Public sector workers ‘going without a daily meal’ because of Tory pay cap
The survey of 11,000 workers found that 17 per cent couldn’t afford to keep their homes warm, whilst 9 per were going without a regular daily meal.
The Tories are preparing to do a U-turn on seven years of public sector pay austerity
Downing Street has refused to deny its planning to end the 1 per cent freeze on public sector pay.
Government ‘concealing’ crisis in local mental health care by redefining what local means
Children and parents are being forced to travel hundreds of miles to access care which is classed as ‘local’ by new government definition.
Half of maternity wards had to shut last year due to “shameful” lack of staff or beds
One hospital said it had to turn away expectant mothers 30 times in 2016 because of “insufficient midwifery staffing for workload”
Network Rail is flogging itself off to private firms – we can’t let it happen
Their reforms will take us back twenty years to the disastrous Railtrack era where dodgy contractors put profit before safety, leading to several major rail crashes.
‘Look at our track record’: 5 ways the Tories are damaging mental health services
The health secretary’s ‘21,000 new NHS posts’ promise rings empty when you look at the overall state of staffing and funding in the NHS.