Kick out all the cutters and private profiteers
There are 40,000 unfilled nursing vacancies across the country.
Experienced nurses are quitting because of the strain and there’s a 6% drop in students taking nursing degrees this September. With fewer nurses training to take their places, the crisis can only intensify.
So thousands of members of nurses’ union RCN converged on parliament on 6 September to protest against the 1% public sector pay cap.
Despite innumerable SOS-calls to successive governments, the nursing profession is in worsening crisis. This is against a background of an NHS in meltdown and society-wide austerity. Since 2010, nurses have seen a 14% real-terms cut in their pay.
If the figures appear bleak, the reality on the wards is bleaker still.
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Tory Infighting Escalates Workers' Action Can Oust Them
Socialist Party executive committee
Capita In Crisis: Bring All Outsourcers Back In-House
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Tragic Death Exposes Criminal Understaffing Of NHS
After the tragic death of a six-year-old child, Jack Adcock, a doctor and nurse have been removed from their professional registers and given two-year suspended prison sentences for manslaughter.
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Building fund finance appeal launched
Tamil Youth March For Justice: Sack The 'Cut-Throat' Brigadier
Isai Priya National chair, Tamil Solidarity
Oxfam Scandal: We Need Democratic Aid And Working Class Solidarity
Sarah Sachs -Eldridge Socialist Party national organiser
Sadiq Khan's Bus Drivers' London Licence Doesn't Go Far Enough
Mo London bus driver
We Can Save Our NHS
Chatsworth nurse and Mansfield Socialist Party
Usdaw Victory - Socialist Party Member Amy Murphy Wins Presidential Election
Tesco worker and Socialist Party member Amy Murphy has been elected president of the shop workers’ union Usdaw.
Victory: Pontllanfraith Leisure Centre Saved
Caerphilly Socialist Party
