Support the Doctors to Save the NHS
Recording of public meeting 27 March 2023 https://youtu.be/fjLSHBja3DM https://youtu.be/JbuvxmK_aJs https://youtu.be/Ljo8kjErbuQ https://youtu.be/BSoC90xDQGw https://youtu.be/GQkwS_8Bs8A
Four Day Junior Doctors Strike Set for April
Junior doctors are to stage a four-day walkout in April in their fight to get a 35% pay rise in England. Members of the British Medical Association (BMA) will take strike action from 11 April to 15 April. It comes after BMA leaders met Health Secretary Steve Barclay on Wednesday. Mr Barclay has said the pay claim is "unaffordable". A deal offered to other NHS staff and backed by unions involves a 5% pay rise in April and a one-off payment of at least £1,655. This is on top of the 4.75% pay rise they received last year. Nurses, ambulance staff, physios and other workers are being asked to vote on whether to accept that deal. The three biggest health unions - the Royal College of Nursing, Unison and the GMB…
Support the Doctors to Save the NHS
PUBLIC MEETING In support of Junior Doctors and the NHS Facebook Event Monday 27 March 7.30 to 9.00 pm The New Haddo Hall, 29 Tarves Way, SE10 9JU Come to our public meeting and hear speakers from the BMA, junior doctors and other health professionals discuss the current pay claims, working conditions and the future of the NHS. Low wages in the NHS will encourage privatisation and end a publicly provided NHS. Speakers Professor Philip Banfield: Chairman of the British Medical Association (now unavailable, but replacement to be arranged) Dr Bob Gill: local GP, public health campaigner Helen O’Connor: GMB Organiser How to get there National Rail and DLRGreenwich Station; exit on the north side via the underpassBus 177Greenwich Station stop in Greenwich High RoadBuses 129, 199, 386Greenwich Station stop…
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Dear supporter As predicted, the NHS has now been pushed into an avoidable and unprecedented collapse. Thousands of us are dying needlessly every month. Nurses are striking for the first time in NHS history. Ambulance workers have also walked out. Over half of hospital doctors want to leave the NHS. The British Medical Journal say government’s failure to protect us is “social murder”. Yet… Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said in January that he plans more NHS privatisation and more use of the private sector. He previously flew to the USA to talk to private healthcare firms and, last November, appointed a private healthcare lobbiest as his advisor. Opposition leader Keir Starmer the very next day proposed addressing the ongoing NHS crisis by working with the private sector in a "partnership model”. Health…
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