“Workfare” comes into hospitals
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The latest manifestation of the government’s “workfare” schemes sees not only jobseekers being exploited, but also hospital patients put at risk.
NHS and health
Commissioning: GPs must consider “public” option
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Stroud Against the Cuts (SATC), through their “Keep Gloucestershire’s NHS Public” campaign, have scored a victory against NHS privatisation.
NHS cuts bite
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Health minister Andrew Lansley was heckled and branded a liar by delegates at the congress of the Royal College of Nursing on 14 May.
Industrial news in brief
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The British Medical Association (BMA), the professional association for doctors, has begun balloting its 103,000 members for industrial action.
My life at work: overheated, overworked, underpaid
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Sam Carrow is a catering worker in a hospital in north west England.
NHS workers under pressure, but fighting
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Workfare schemes are being “piloted” at a number of hospitals including West Birmingham hospital, Frinnage Hospital in South Tees and Stockport NHS foundation trust.
NHS plc: the shape of things to come
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Under its contract with the NHS, Circle Healthcare, the private firm which runs Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, is allowed to claim the first £2 million of any annual surplus, plus a percentage of any further surplus (a quarter of the remaining surplus between £2-6 million, and a third of that between £6-10 million).
Profiteers bleeding the NHS
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Last Tuesday, private health giants Capita and United Healthcare introduced themselves to London’s leading GPs with Andrew Lansley as matchmaker.
AWL bulletin for Unison Health Conference 2012
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A special AWL bulletin for delegates to Unison Health conference 2012. Click here to download PDF.
"Much more than closing the odd ward"
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The official NHS regulatory body, Monitor, has sent a letter to NHS hospital managers (17 April), saying that they need to cut budgets by 7 per cent a year from 2013-4 onwards.