Sajid Javid wants people to pay £66 for A&E visits and £20 per GP visit
‘Just a former health secretary openly calling for £20 charges per GP visit & £66 per trip to A&E.’
NHS
Nurse interview: ‘I’m striking for patient safety’
Lianne Hyslop joined her colleagues on the picket line in response to the chronic underfunding she has witnessed as a nurse.
PMQs: Keir Starmer absolutely wipes the floor with Rishi Sunak over NHS crisis
“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’ two-day strike is a chance to save our health service, says Pat Cullen
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
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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Unions call out ‘mistruths’ over ambulance minimum service levels
Union representatives label Grant Shapps claim that ambulance minimum safety levels were not being met on strike days as ‘seriously misleading’.
‘They’ve gone from clapping the nurses to sacking the nurses’, Sunak roasted at PMQs by Keir Starmer
“The simple truth is you can’t legislate your way out of 13 years of failure.”
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The biggest ambulance strike so far as thousands of workers walk out over pay and conditions
25,000 ambulance workers represented by the unions GMB and UNISON will go on strike over a 24-hour period in response to low pay and indecent working conditions.
MUST WATCH: Unite blasts Tory hypocrisy after government demand further ‘productivity savings’ during pay talks
“That is absolutely ludicrous. This isn’t a factory we’re talking about, we’re talking about people who are working well beyond their contracted hours anyway”