With today’s announcement of forthcoming industrial action by Juniors [1] and the revelation last week of profound concerns over the true effects of the STPs throughout England [2], it it timely to point out that the BMA has called for the government to back up, once and for all, what it is claiming about the….
EWTD: Comments
Comment on Mark Aitken’s opinion piece on EWTD (more…)
The EWTD: An idea whose time has gone?
With the Brexiteers having won the race to the bottom of the credibility pole, could this cloud of confusion have a silver lining? If there was one thing that broke the back of a failing Emergency Service, it was the European Working Time Directive (EWTD). (more…)
Support the NHS Bill: Rally this Wednesday 11 July, London
RALLY AT PARLIAMENT 12.30-14.00 WEDNESDAY 13TH JULY to support the Bill’s reading under the ’10 minute rule’. LOCATION: Between College Green and St Margaret’s Church, on the triangular wide pavement area near the statue of King George V. Opposite from the public entrance to Parliament, Abingdon Street, London. Nearest tube: Westminster Please bring campaign banners,….
Give the Westminster Watchdog teeth: the need for a new Commission
Health and related social care in the UK are in a critical state. The improvements that recent Labour governments had made to the NHS, such as much lower waiting lists, have been and are still being damaged by, first, the coalition government and then by the Tory government. Social care has been savagely clobbered by the public….
Press Release: The Juniors Need to Carry on Calmly
[6 July] The continued failure to resolve the junior doctors’ dispute is bad news for the NHS. The fact that the majority of junior doctors feel unable to accept the new terms is further proof of the folly of the government trying to link their contracts with an uncosted and ill thought through commitment to a….
NHS Bill to get its 10 Minutes – 13 July
The NHS Bill will get a brief presence in parliament this month. Margaret Greenwood MP has now secured a Ten Minute Rule Slot for Wednesday 13 July. (more…)
Is Labour about to wake up?
At what could be a formative meeting between John McDonnell (Shadow Cnancellor), Heidi Alexander (Shadow spokesperson for health) and around 40 NHS campaigners, there was the promise of a fruitful way forwards to save the NHS from ruin, and NHS staff from further despair. (more…)
Keeping it simple – The lost art?
Throughout all the plethora of changes imposed on the NHS by successive governments, the increasing complexity of virtually everything is one of the most striking features. We meet it everywhere in the use, or abuse, of language. Those of us obliged by the nature of our jobs or involvement in local campaigns to attend meetings….
The Bill That is Right for the NHS
In the present gloomy times with continuous bad news about our NHS there is one glint of hope – the NHS Bill, which is the positive alternative to the increasing woes piled upon us by our government. (more…)