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NHS

A photo of a march coinciding with RCN strikes. Demonstrators are carrying a banner reading "We are the NHS!"

Revealed: The shocking real terms pay cut NHS staff have been hit with since 2008

Chris Jarvis
27 January, 2023 (4 days ago)

The pay of bankers has risen three times as fast as NHS workers

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Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week

Basit Mahmood
26 January, 2023 (5 days ago)

A roundup of news on the left…

Sharon Graham

Unite’s Sharon Graham slams government as absolute disgrace over ambulance strikes

Hannah Davenport
24 January, 2023 (1 week ago)

Ambulance workers continue strike action today, as union leaders urge the government to make an offer ahead of unprecedented NHS strike date in February.

Sajid Javid comes under fire by GPs

Sajid Javid wants people to pay £66 for A&E visits and £20 per GP visit

Basit Mahmood
23 January, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

‘Just a former health secretary openly calling for £20 charges per GP visit & £66 per trip to A&E.’

Nurses strike

Nurse interview: ‘I’m striking for patient safety’

Hannah Davenport
18 January, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

Lianne Hyslop joined her colleagues on the picket line in response to the chronic underfunding she has witnessed as a nurse.

Starmer

PMQs: Keir Starmer absolutely wipes the floor with Rishi Sunak over NHS crisis

Basit Mahmood
18 January, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

“So for one week, will he stop blaming others, take some responsibility and just admit under his watch, the NHS is in crisis, isn’t it?”

Nurses strike

Nurses’ two-day strike is a chance to save our health service, says Pat Cullen

Hannah Davenport
18 January, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

Thousands of nurses are striking today and tomorrow in a fight, not just about pay, but about addressing devastating cuts to NHS services.

‘Capitalising on crisis’: right-wing’s bid to undermine public faith in NHS

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
14 January, 2023 (3 weeks ago)

The right-wing media’s multi-facetted attacks on the NHS, which range from pinning the crisis on ‘woke non-jobs’ to sickening trashing of GPs,  would be enough to fill a library.
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Grant Shapps interview

Unions call out ‘mistruths’ over ambulance minimum service levels

Hannah Davenport
11 January, 2023 (3 weeks ago)

Union representatives label Grant Shapps claim that ambulance minimum safety levels were not being met on strike days as ‘seriously misleading’.

Keir Starmer

‘They’ve gone from clapping the nurses to sacking the nurses’, Sunak roasted at PMQs by Keir Starmer

Basit Mahmood
11 January, 2023 (3 weeks ago)

“The simple truth is you can’t legislate your way out of 13 years of failure.”

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