By just how much is the SW pay cartel planning to cut NHS staff pay?
I first posted this on 16 Sep 2012. As news emerges that Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust is planning to make 55 health workers redundant and cut the pay of the rest […]
Monthly Archives: November 2012
The new ‘Carlsberg’ Bank of England governor: be very afraid
It’s been announced that the new governor of the Bank of England is going to be Mark Carney, currently governor of the Bank of Canada, when his term expires in […]
CQC, BBC, Telegraph, the elderly and Hunt’s new NHS attack
I’ve written often about the established pattern under this government whereby media criticism of the NHS is used to try to pave the way for attacks on the NHS. It’s […]
Mocked for defending a hospital. Must be doing something right!
I’ve been mocked by a Blairite ex-Dept of Health policy advisor for my recent post on Kettering General Hospital and the lies Tory health minister Daniel Poulter told to one […]
The Tory assault on the ‘unworthy poor’. What kind of society do we really want to be?
I first posted this back in June, but the issues it addresses continue to be absolutely pertinent under the malignant government we’re going to have to suffer and fight until, […]
North Tees avoiding FOI on new hospital scale & ‘business case’
I’ve written previously about developments at North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Trust, which has attempted to bully staff into accepting the degradation of their pay and conditions, even going to […]
Nov employment stats: bad news for young, women, disabled
The government has been quiet on this month’s employment stats so far, which is usually a sign that ministers made too big a deal of the good news they’ve spun […]
