Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A roundup of news from progressive outlets…
NHS
Number of people in London having to wait more than 12 hours in A&E jumps by 47% in a month
When it comes to national figures, 43,792 people endured a 12-hour wait in A&E in October – up 34 per cent on the previous month.
Rise of the right-wing’s bid to infiltrate cornerstones of British society
From the BBC to the NHS, the right has been gnawing away at well-liked British institutions, waging ‘politicised’ campaigns designed to influence direction. And the National Trust, with millions of members, is firmly in their sights.
Thousands sign petition urging government for an inflation-matching pay rise
A petition to the health secretary Steve Barclay to increase pay for NHS workers by 11 percent to match inflation, has amassed more than 80,000 signatures.
Hundreds of thousands of NHS workers to ballot on strike action over pay
Around 350,000 members of Unison started voting this week on whether to strike over real terms pay cuts.
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Message for the Chancellor: Public health is an economic issue
‘What the government is resolutely refusing to acknowledge, let alone address, is the crisis of people who aren’t working not because they don’t have to financially, not because they’re choosing a life of leisure, but simply because they can’t, due to ill health’
Thérèse Coffey ridiculed for policing health workers’ grammar while the NHS is in crisis
The new health secretary issued guidance instructing workers to not use the Oxford comma
Truss and Sunak under fire for NHS crisis ‘complacency’
The Tory leadership contenders have been accused of being ‘worryingly bare’ on health policy ideas to solve the crisis the NHS is currently grappling with.