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.
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Activate proves the Tories have absolutely nothing to offer young people
The young Tory campaign group’s message resonates… with designer-clad Nazi-teenagers who want to gas ‘chavs’.
Privatising a key part of the NHS is not in the taxpayers’ interest. It must be investigated
The government has dodged questions about the privatisation of NHS Professionals for long enough, it’s time to launch an enquiry.
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.
Nine out of ten major NHS hospital trusts do not have enough nurses
Whilst there’s no money for nurses the health secretary found £44k for a new bathroom in the Department of Health.
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”
Nursing bursaries are being scrapped today but might a Tory backlash may be around the corner?
A Times op-ed called the move a ‘toxic political mix… driven more by ideology than logic’ and called for the policy to be scrapped.
‘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.
The campaign against a secretive NHS sell-off is growing
The government is still trying to privatise NHS Professionals, and the opposition needs your support.
Public sector workers do £11bn of unpaid overtime every year
A quarter of public sector staff do on average eight hours of unpaid work a week, shocking new GMB report reveals.