NHS agency spend: the hidden truth In 1997 the NHS spent over £700 million on agency nurses. This year the figure will have risen to over £2.5 billion. Why pay outrageous amounts…
Royal College of Nursing: the voice of the establishment The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) represents most of the nurses employed within the NHS and has a…
The NHS pay freeze and the end of Agenda for Change This article looks at these changes and the ways in which successive years of 0% or 1% pay rises in the NHS have undermined the national Agenda…
Compass Medirest workers strike at Ealing hospital Outsourced porters, cleaners and canteen staff at Ealing hospital are on 48 hour strike for higher wages.
The madness of austerity: Simon Stevens's NHS A brief look at what the appointment of Simon Stevens as head of NHS England means for mental health services in context.
Room to breathe in defence of the NHS A documentary on the failures of NHS treatment for young people with mental health problems prompted a vocal defence of the NHS. Can we criticise…
Mid Yorkshire health strike Prolongued strike action in West Yorkshire hospitals has shown that attacks by the bosses can be fought off.
Healthcare workers: where we stand-fighting on two fronts Basic overview of the terrain that health workers defending their terms and conditions is being…
Driving the NHS to market Aufheben's analysis of the long-term project to turn the NHS into a private sector, market-oriented healthcare industry.
Ben Goldacre on the "evidence" supporting NHS reforms As the endgame approaches for the governments NHS "reforms", which will in effect privatise the…
Liverpool Hospital demo goes ahead, despite toadying Labour Party lickspittles cancelling it Around fifty people attended a demonstration against the privatisation of the NHS…
Book review - Poplar; Lessons of a historical struggle Alan Woodward of the Radical history Network reviews Janine Booth's "Guilty and Proud of it: Poplar…
