health and medicine

Steven. — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:15:29 +0000

Unite NHS workers vote for strike action

Ed — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:52:41 +0000

Unite, which balloted 77, 000 workers, said there was a 3-1 vote in favour of industrial action, with just over half backing walkouts. The union said industrial action would start before Christmas although officials would not decide until later this week what form the action will take.

NHS workers balloting for industrial action

Steven. — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:20:22 +0000

After the ballot closes on 12 November, Unite will have a 28-day 'window' to take action that its members have voted for.

Protests in Belfast in support of women's right to choose

xConorx — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:51:11 +0000

Organise!, political activists, and pro-choice campaigners will be staging a series or protests in the next week in the run up to the Westminster vote on the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to NI.

Foundation trusts: a guide for NHS workers

Jason Cortez — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:04:19 +0000

We all know that the NHS is undergoing a period of 'reform', but what is actually happening? And what does this mean for those of us who work within the NHS?

NHS Notional Health Service - The great health and social care swindle

Jason Cortez — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:56:16 +0000

Most of us at some point in our lives will use Health and Social care services, be they NHS, Local Authority, or private sector. Many of us also will be only too aware of the major funding crisis that exists, threatening many of the basic services we have taken for granted in the past.

The medicalisation of everyday life

xConorx — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:37:33 +0000

[b]His critiques of the health system, pharmaceutical industry, and consumer health fads are extremely relevant - his focus on social factors, economic inequalities, and rejection of reductionist medicalising and/or individualising of what are essentially social/collective issues is pretty consistent with any critique class-struggle anarchists could produce.

Psychiatrists raise concern over torture involvement

xConorx — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:19:23 +0000

Contrary to stated positions of various medical and psychiatric profession associations, the US military is training psychiatrists to be involved in military interrogations.

NHS Unite members reject pay offer

Ed — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:41:35 +0000

Not long after the rejection of a pay deal by NHS workers in the GMB, 94.8% of Unite's health sector workers - including health visitors, hospital pharmacists, health care chaplains and members in many other health care professions and support services voted to turn down the three year offer worth less than 8%.

NHS strike looms as GMB reject pay deal

Ed — Sat, 31 May 2008 11:40:35 +0000

If their decision is confirmed by the 450,000 NHS workers in Unison next week, the government may be forced to abandon its attempt to reach a long-term settlement.