We have been saying the NHS is under serious threat for so long now it gives no pleasure to see it happening on such a scale that you can’t avoid it. The long-awaited Workforce Plan promises much but is long overdue – we welcome that, but ask: look at the record. (more…)
NHS strikes
Striking for the NHS
Doctors and nurses cost money. Highly skilled people doing, every day, what very few people could – saving lives. No one, surely, would argue with that? Yet we are doomed, it seems, to be heading to the point where NHS staff are cast as the enemy. How could this be? (more…)
Nurses Strike: The government MUST listen
Press statement: For All Our sakes, Listen! Doctors for the NHS, which has been campaigning to protect the founding values of the NHS for many years, is appealing to the government to listen to nurses and other healthcare professionals and hear what is painfully obvious: that the NHS is near to collapse and those who….