Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
This sounds like a dramatic title, but in truth, it is not. What we are witnessing before our very eyes is the death of the NHS.
The waves of COVID and flu washing through a debilitated health system starved of funds for more than a decade and with a workforce depleted and depressed means (...)
125 nurses from Portugal have signed an open letter of solidarity with the unprecedented strike that, since 15 December, has been promoted by British colleagues in response to more than a decade of disinvestment in the public service and the loss of real wages.
Recalling that many of these (...)
Ambulance services are facing unfair criticism for a situation which is not of their making. The workforce is in crisis, with system-wide pressures seriously hampering their ability to do their jobs.
Emergency service workers are set to strike on December 21 2022, to demand better pay. The (...)
Nurses describe what it is like to work on the NHS frontline – and what the cost is to them.
As nurses prepare to strike for the first time, an A&E nurse and lecturer in Organisational Behaviour in Healthcare writes about the stress, fear, grief and guilt they feel every day working on the (...)
Without a plan in place to minimise infection, a ‘moving on’ strategy leaves vulnerable people behind
As the season of Christmas work parties and drinks with friends begins, it feels a distance from the December of two years ago, at the height of the pandemic. We will hug our grandparents, (...)
We’re in a better position compared with 2020 and 2021, but the pandemic isn’t over yet.
The UK is now approaching its third Christmas of the COVID pandemic. And this year feels different. There’s little question we’re in a better position compared with 2020 and 2021.
In 2020, Christmas plans (...)
In a new book, the former health secretary blames everyone but himself for Covid. It’s disgusting
‘Matt Hancock unleashed.” It’s a potent image and one, I suspect, we all could have done without. But the Daily Mail has papers to sell and this was how it chose to promote its serialisation of the (...)
Announcement by Boris Johnson shows Rishi Sunak has won out over Sajid Javid in cabinet battle over funding
Covid laws and free mass testing are to be swept away across England after Rishi Sunak won a cabinet battle on cutting the cost of the pandemic, prompting fears that the poor and (...)
Being proved wrong lies at the heart of scientific progress. Here, experts reveal what they got wrong during the pandemic
Einstein once observed that “a scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others”. Aside from the “he”, the (...)
Scientists warn Boris Johnson that failure means new Covid variants will put thousands of lives at risk across UK
Boris Johnson was urged to support efforts to suspend intellectual property rules that stop lower-income nations from manufacturing vaccines, tests, and treatments. Photograph: (...)
Prof Dame Sarah Gilbert says this will not be the last time a virus threatens our lives and our livelihoods
The coronavirus pandemic that has so far killed more than 5 million people worldwide is far from over and the next one could be even more lethal, the creator of the Oxford/AstraZeneca (...)
Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome Trust, suggests emergence of Omicron variant means pandemic is far from over.
The emergence of the Omicron variant shows that the world is “closer to the start of the pandemic than the end”, one of Britain’s most senior scientific figures has warned, as he (...)
The health secretary promised pressures would not become ‘unsustainable’. But overworked staff can no longer provide a safe service
Dear Sajid Javid, I am a paramedic working on the frontline for an NHS ambulance service in England. I have worked as a paramedic on the frontline throughout the (...)
At least a dozen officials have called for further precautions in their areas as government holds off on plan B
Local public health chiefs in England are breaking from the government’s official guidance and recommending so-called plan B protective measures to combat a surge in coronavirus (...)
29% rise in referrals for first suspected episode of psychosis between April 2019 and April 2021
Cases of psychosis have risen over the past two years in England as an increasing number of people experience hallucinations and delusional thinking amid the stresses of the Covid-19 pandemic. (...)
Exclusive: Report from planning exercise in 2016 alerted government of need to stockpile PPE and set up contact tracing system.
Senior health officials who war-gamed the impact of a coronavirus hitting the UK, warned four years before the onset of Covid-19 of the need for stockpiles of PPE, a (...)
Exclusive: Private hospitals in England also performed far fewer operations on NHS-funded patients despite multi-billion pound deal with government.
Private hospitals treated a total of just eight Covid patients a day during the pandemic despite a multi-billion pound deal with the government (...)
Terry Conway reports on the nationwide CaSWO! day of action on September 4.
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September 4 saw a successful day of action organised by Care and Support Workers Organise (CaSWO!) with actions in Newcastle, Preston, London and Manchester. The events were timely as (...)
Retailer is luring staff with 30% higher wages, while some workers object to the care sector’s ‘no jab, no job’ policy.
Care workers are quitting to become Amazon warehouse pickers and for other better-paid jobs in a growing staffing crisis which operators now warn could leave 170,000 vacancies (...)
Confirmed infections have dropped 21.5% week on week – though recorded deaths are still on the rise.
Is this how it ends? After an 18-month rollercoaster of soaring and falling cases, and more than 100,000 UK deaths, is the epidemic fizzling out? Has immunity finally got the upper hand, or will (...)
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